
The purpose of the ISAB is to provide the Director and the Centre's Management Committee with a scientific perspective of the Centre from outside, and feedback on the Centre's ability to meet its scientific objectives. The Board comprises of a group of internationally-recognised and experienced scientists who have both the general knowledge of the field and expertise in specific areas that are relevant to the Centre's activities.
Current membership of the International Scientific Advisory Board is as follows:
Prof Nicholas Hastie (Chair), Director of the MRC Human Genetics Unit, Director of the Institute of Genetics & Molecular Medicine, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh
Prof David Altshuler, Deputy Director and Chief Academic Officer, Broad Institute, USA
Prof Barry Bloom, Dean, Harvard School of Public Health, USA
Dr Thomas Hudson, Director, Ontario Cancer Institute, Canada
Prof Jake Lusis, Professor of Medicine, Microbiology, and Molecular Genetics, UCLA, USA
Dr Dino Moras, IGCMB,CNRS/INSER/ULP, France
Prof Betsy Nabel, President, Brigham and Women's Health Care, USA
Prof Martin Raff, Emeritus Professor, MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, London
Prof Terry Speed, Prof of Statistics, University of California Berkeley & Head of Bioinformatics, Walter & Eliza Hall Institute, Melbourne