The IRC's Steering Committee
The Steering Committee is a management committee appointed and overseen by the Scientific Director of the Consortium. It is made up of the national leads of countries participating in the initiative.
Members of the Steering Committee include:
- Dr. Michael Rudnicki, Senior Scientist (Chair), Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (Canada)
- Dr. Irwin Davidson, Group Leader, Institut de Génétique et de Biologieoléculaire et Cellulaire (FR)
- Dr. Frank Grosveld, Professor, Erasmus University (The Netherlands)
- Dr. Ihor Lemischka, Professor, Mt. Sinai Hospital, New York (United States)
- Dr. Bing Lim Senior, Group Leader, Genome Institute of Singapore (Singapore)
- Dr. John Mattick, Professor, University of Queensland (Australia)
- Dr. Mahendra Rao, Vice-President, Invitrogen Corporation now Life Technologies (United States)
- Dr. Janet Rossant, Chief of Research, The Hospital for Sick Children (Canada)
- Dr. William Skarnes, Team Leader, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (United Kingdom)
- Dr. Francis Stewart, Professor, Dresden University of Technology (Germany)
- Dr. Robert Tijan, President, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (United States)
