Dubai Harvard Foundation for Medical Research

SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY COMMITTEE

A Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) has been created consisting of senior faculty from Harvard Medical School science and clinical departments and from the Gulf Region. The Advisory Board members are responsible for designing and monitoring the success of scientific and clinical programs relating to the Dubai Harvard Foundation for Medical Research and its mission. All program proposals and recommendations will be submitted to the Board of Trustees by the SAC for ratification.

Members of the Scientific Advisory Committee are appointed for two-to three-year renewable terms by the Board of Trustees. The Committee meets three times per year and is required to review proposals, grant applications and funding requests. The Committee provides oversight for the Foundation’s funding initiatives and research program opportunities, establishing guidelines for the competitive process.

The Scientific Advisory Committee will also be responsible for helping to establish a Regional Advisory Committee and ad hoc grant review committees. The Regional Advisory Committee will have a rotating membership of internationally renowned scientists from the Gulf Region, and who will meet at HMSDC, and will be responsible for providing strategic input into the grants programs that are appropriate for the region and will also provide support for the grant selection process. The Grant Review Committees will be tasked with peer review of grant applicants and will be formed as required for each of the grant program. Decisions from the Grant Review Committees will be reviewed by the SAC prior to making the final recommendation to the Board of Trustees.

Scientific Advisory Committee Members:

Jon Clardy, PhD

Professor, Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Harvard Medical School

Patricia Donahoe, MD

Marshall K. Bartlett Professor, Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Director, Pediatric Surgical Research Laboratories, Pediatric Surgical Services, Massachusetts General Hospital

Sehamuddin Galadari, PhD

Assistant Dean and Associate Professor of Biochemistry
United Arab Emirates University School of Medicine

Judith Glaven, PhD

Director of Basic Science Programs, Department of Basic Sciences & Graduate Studies
Harvard Medical School

Raghu Kalluri, PhD

Professor, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Samir Khleif, MD

Vamsi Krishna Mootha, MD

Assistant Professor, Department of Systems Biology,
Harvard Medical School
Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Associate Member of the Broad Institute

Mohamed H. Sayegh, MD [DHFMR Scientific Advisory Committee Chair]

Warren E. Grupe and John P. Merrill Chair in Transplantation Medicine
Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Director, Transplantation Research Center Brigham and Women's Hospital & Children's Hospital

Sultan T. Al Sedairy, PhD

Executive Director
King Faisal Specialist Hospital Research Center, Riyadh

Christopher A. Walsh, MD, PhD

Harvard Medical School Bullard Professor of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Chief of the Division of Genetics, Children’s Hospital
HHMI Investigator