Board of Scientific Counselors

The Board of Scientific Counselors for NINDS reviews and evaluates the NINDS Intramural Program and the work of individual scientists in this program.

Roster


BSC Chair

Gordon M.G. Shepherd, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Physiology
Northwestern University
Chicago, IL 60611

Maya Babu, M.D., MBA
Neurosurgeon
HealthFirst
Melbourne, Florida 32904

Merit Cudkowicz, M.D., M.Sc.
Julieanne Dorn Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School
Chief of Neurology
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA 02114

Aryn Gittis, Ph.D.
Associate Professor with Tenure
Dept. of Biological Sciences
The Neuroscience Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Pedro Gonzalez-Alegre M.D., Ph.D.
Head of Gene Therapy Research
Spark Therapeutics, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Elizabeth M. C. Hillman, Ph.D. 
Herbert and Florence Irving Professor 
Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute
Depts. of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology
Columbia University
New York, NY 10027

Erika Holzbaur, Ph.D.
William Maul Measey
Professor of Physiology
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Stefan Pulst, M.D.
Chair and Professor
Dept. of Neurology
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT 84132

Beth Stevens, Ph.D.
Investigator, HHMI
Associate Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School
F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center
Children’s Hospital Boston
Boston, MA 02115

Yimin Zou, Ph.D.
Professor
Division of Biological Sciences
Department of Neurobiology
School of Biological Sciences
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92092

 

Executive Secretary

Jeffrey Diamond, Ph.D.
Acting Scientific Director, Division of Intramural Research
Bethesda, Maryland 20892