CPDM@UMB Steering Committee is the Center’s operational governing body. The Steering Committee oversees the Center’s research pipeline, determining the scale of Tier 1 model generation for large variant datasets and selecting variants for Tier 2 mouse model preclinical studies.
The Committee includes:
Zhe ‘Zion’ Han, Ph.D.
Center Director for CPDM@UMB
Co-Chair of the Steering Committee
Lead of the Coordination Section and the Disease Modeling Unit (DMU)
Professor, Department of Medicine
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Stephen N. Davis, MBBS
Co-Chair, Steering Committee
Section Leader, Resource and Service Section
Dr. Theodore E. Woodward Chair in Medicine
Chair, Department of Medicine
Director, General Clinical Research Center
Director, Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Terry J. Watnick, MD
Co-Lead, Preclinical Section
Joan B. and John H. Sadler, MD Professor of Nephrology
Professor, Department of Medicine
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Maureen A. Kane, PhD
Co-Lead, Bioinformatics Section
Executive Director, School of Pharmacy Mass Spectrometry Center
Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
University of Maryland School of Pharmacy