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Learn more about the Institute's Advisory Boards and Executive Committees.
Members in the individual Centers meet frequently to discuss progress and planning. In addition, the IEM holds town hall meetings of its members. Directors of the IEM Centers meet periodically to exchange information and to foster collaborations among the Centers.
The IEM holds annual meetings of its Advisory Committee, which is composed of extramural leaders in industry and the private sector, intramural faculty, and administrative leaders, to report progress and receive advice on improving its activities. The IEM Advisory Board provides advice on direction and strategy, research needs, and funding.
Name | Title | Company |
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Walt Baxter | Distinguished Scientist | Medtronic |
David Brenner | President & CEO | Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute |
Peter Farrell | Chairman & CEO | ResMed Inc. |
Michael Hostetler | Attorney at Law | Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati |
Irwin Jacobs | Founding Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Emeritus | Qualcomm |
Gene Lay | President & CEO | BioLegend |
Ann Lee-Karlon | President & CEO | EpiBiologics |
Joe Panetta | President & CEO | BIOCOM |
Anthony Ratcliffe | President & CEO | Synthasome, Inc |
Drew Senyei | Managing Director | Enterprise Partners Venture Capital |
Tom Skalak | Senior Advisor to Clara Wu & VP for Research | University of Virginia |
Jay Srirangam | Technical Development Team Leader | Genentech |
Name | Title | Department | |
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Cheryl Anderson | Professor & Dean | Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health & Human Longevity Science, Hood Family Endowed Deans Chair in Public Health | c1anderson@ucsd.edu |
Zea Borok | Professor & Chair | School of Medicine | zborok@ucsd.edu |
Corinne Peek-Asa | Vice Chancellor - Research | Research Affairs | cpeekasa@ucsd.edu |
Wendy Campana | Professor | Department of Anesthesiology | wcampana@ucsd.edu |
Shu Chien | Professor Emeritus | Shu Chien-Gene LayDepartment of Bioengineering | shuchien@ucsd.edu |
Bryan Clary | Professor & Chair | Department of Surgery | bclary@ucsd.edu |
Gary Firestein | Professor | School of Medicine | gfirestein@ucsd.edu |
Lisa Ordóñez | Dean | Rady School of Management | lordonez@ucsd.edu |
Catriona Jamieson | Deputy Director | Moores Cancer Center, Cellular & Molecular Medicine | cjamieson@ucsd.edu |
Lawrence Goldstein | Emeritus Professor | Cellular & Molecular Medicine | lgoldstein@ucsd.edu |
Ralph Greenspan | Professor | Neurobiology | rgreenspan@ucsd.edu |
Gabriel Haddad | Professor & Chair | Department of Pediatrics | ghaddad@ucsd.edu |
Miroslav Krstic | Professor & Senior Associate Vice Chancellor | Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering | mkrstic@ucsd.edu |
Scott Lippman | Professor | School of Medicine | slippman@ucsd.edu |
Brookie Best | Dean | School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science | bdugan@ucsd.edu |
Albert Pisano | Dean | Jacobs School of Engineering | appisano@ucsd.edu |
Ramesh Rao | Director | California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology | rrao@ucsd.edu |
Paul Roben | Associate Vice Chancellor | Office of Innovation & Commercialization | |
Adam Engler | Chairman & Professor | Shu Chien-Gene LayDepartment of Bioengineering | aengler@ucsd.edu |
Susan Taylor | Professor | Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry | staylor@ucsd.edu |
Robert Weinreb | Chairman & Professor | Department of Ophthalmology | rweinreb@ucsd.edu |
John Carethers | Vice Chancellor | Health Sciences | |
Rajesh Gupta | Director | Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute | rgupta@ucsd.edu |
The mission of WCBE is to foster and enhance the interactions between IEM and the bioengineering department with the industry. The Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) provides valuable advice and leadership in improving industry liaison and student education and training. Provide a conduit for student-employer relationships and enhance student professional development WCBE organizes student industrial internships, Breakfast with Industry, Chutes and Ladders for networking with industry, and Bioengineering Day. WCBE works on undergraduate design projects and the Masters of Advanced Studies-Medical Device Engineering program. It organizes student participation at U.S. and San Diego Science and Engineering Festivals and runs the Shared Cell Engineering Research Core.
Name | Position | Company |
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Julio Baez | Industry Advisor | UCSD - Bioengineering |
Robert Balderas | Vice President / Biological Sciences | BD Biosciences |
Walt Baxter | Distinguished Scientist | Medtronic - Cardiac Rhythm Management |
Frederick Cahn | CEO | BioMedical Strategies |
Greg Williams | Director, Biologics and Advanced Materials Science R&D | NuVasive, Inc. |
Jason Haider | Founder and CEO | Xenco Medical |
Jason Halsey | VP, Manufacturing Technology and Transfer | Illumina |
Chris MacDonald | Vice President, Operations & Data Science | ChromaCode, Inc. |
Harish Nagarajan | Senior R&D Manager, Systems Biology & Bioinformatics | Genomatica |
Lou Obertreis | Product Manufacturing Engineer | Independent |
Anthony Ratcliffe | President and CEO | Synthasome, Inc. |
Elaine Ye | Project Research Analyst | Device of Tomorrow Capital |
Ajay Panwar | Sr. Engineering Manager, Quality | Medtronic – Diabetes |
Ali Ismailoglu | Marketing Director | Alphatec Spine, Inc. |
Gabrielle Colvert | Senior Research and Development Engineer | Medtronic - Structural Heart |