Scientific Advisory Board

Advisors provide insight and suggestions to Vollum Institute and OHSU leadership about both administrative issues and scientific direction, meeting annually with faculty and staff.

Dr Michael Greenberg
Nathan Marsh Pusey Professor of Neurobiology
Blavatnik Institute Neurobiology
Harvard Medical School
Dr James Hudspeth

James Hudspeth, M.D., Ph.D.

F.M. Kirby Professor
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

The Rockefeller University

Dr Indira Raman

Indira Raman, Ph.D.

Bill and Gayle Cook Professor
Director, Northwestern University Interdepartmental Neurosciences (NUIN) PhD Program
Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences, Northwestern University

Dr Carla Shatz

Carla Shatz, Ph.D.

Sapp Family Provostial Professor
The Catherine Holman Johnson Director of Stanford Bio–X and Professor of Biology and of Neurobiology

Stanford University

Dr Lawrence Zipursky

Larry Zipursky, Ph.D.

Professor of Biological Chemistry
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
David Geffen School of Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles

Past Scientific Advisory Board Members

  • Richard Aldrich, Ph.D.
    2012-2015
  • Bruce Bean, Ph.D.
    2000-2002
  • Lewis Cantley, Ph.D.
    2004-2006
  • William Catterall, Ph.D.
    2001-2003
  • Moses Chao, Ph.D.
    2009-2011
  • David Clapham, M.D., Ph.D.
    2005-2007
  • Michael Czech, Ph.D.
    2006-2008
  • Jack Dixon, Ph.D.
    1991-1994, 2005, 2015
  • Gerald D. Fischbach, M.D.
    1994-1999
  • Zach Hall, Ph.D.
    2007
  • Stephen Heinemann, Ph.D.
    2008-2010
  • Bertil Hille, Ph.D.
    1994-1996, 2004
  • Tony Hunter, Ph.D.
    2000-2002
  • Lily Jan, Ph.D.
    2011
  • Edwin Krebs, Ph.D.
    1991-1994
  • Story C. Landis, Ph.D.
    2000, 2015
  • Michael Marletta, Ph.D.
    2009-2011
  • Christopher Miller, Ph.D.
    2003
  • Roger A. Nicoll, M.D.
    1996-1999
  • Louis Ptacek, M.D.
    2014-2015
  • Randy Schekman, Ph.D.
    2012-2014
  • Melvin I. Simon, Ph.D.
    1994-1998
  • Charles Stevens, M.D., Ph.D.
    1991-1994
  • Karel Svoboda, Ph.D.
    2011-2013
  • Richard Tsien, Ph.D.
    2008-2010
  • Wylie Vale, Ph.D.
    2003-2005
  • Keith R. Yamamoto, Ph.D.

    1996-2001