WV-INBRE Steering Committee
The WV-INBRE Steering Committee is comprised of four members of the Administrative Core (Principal Investigator, Program Coordinator, Bioinformatics Core Director and Genomics Core Director), the Vice President for Research at Marshall University, a representative from the Vice President for Health Science Research at West Virginia University, one researcher and one administrator from each partner institution with a major research award, and two representatives from additional partner institutions. Each of these members is a voting member. Members of the External Advisory Committee attend all Steering Committee meetings as non-voting members.
| Administrative Core Voting Members | |
| Principal Investigator, Marshall University | Gary Rankin, PhD [email protected] (304) 696-7313 |
| Program Coordinator, West Virginia University | Stan Hileman, PhD [email protected] (304) 293-1502 |
| Bioinformatics Core Director, Marshall University | Jim Denvir, PhD [email protected] (304) 696-7327 |
| Genomics Core Director, Marshall University | Don Primerano, PhD [email protected] (304) 696-7338 |
| Partner Institutions Voting Members | |
| Alderson-Broaddus University | Yi Charlie Chen, PhD Asst. Professor, Biology [email protected] (304) 457-6277 Joan Propst, PhD Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs [email protected] (304) 457-6267 |
| Shepherd University | Qing Wang, PhD Assistant Professor, Mathematics [email protected] (304) 876-5643 Robert Warburton, PhD Acting Dean, College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics [email protected] (304) 876-5401 |
| West Liberty University | Joseph Horzempa, PhD Assistant Professor, Biology [email protected] Karen Kettler, PhD Interim Dean, College of Sciences [email protected] (304) 336-8070 |
| West Virginia State University | Naveed Zaman, PhD Dean, College of Natural Science and Mathematics [email protected] (304) 766-4248 |
| West Virginia Wesleyan College | Bruce Anthony, PhD Assistant Professor, Chemistry/Biochemistry [email protected] (304) 473-7823 |
| Additional Voting Members | |
| Vice-President of Research, Marshall University | John Maher, PhD [email protected] (304) 696-4748 |
| Representative from the Vice President for Health Science Research, West Virginia University | Christopher Cuff, PhD Professor, Microbiology, Immunology & Cell Biology [email protected] (304) 293-7823 |
| External Advisory Committee, non-Voting | |
| Dean College of Pharmacy University of South Carolina |
Stephen Cutler, PhD [email protected] (803) 777-4151 |
| Associate Professor of Biology Seton Hill University |
Jamie Fornsaglio, PhD [email protected] (724) 830-1593 x6105 |
| Chair, Dept. of Cell & Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics Hollings Cancer Center University of South Carolina |
Kenneth Tew, PhD [email protected] (843) 792-2514 |
| Director, Advanced Genome Technologies Core The University of Vermont |
Tim Hunter, PhD [email protected] (802) 656-2559 |
| Director of Center for Colon Cancer Research Professor, Biological Sciences College of Arts and Sciences University Of South Carolina |
Franklin G. Berger, PhD [email protected] (803) 777-1171 |
Revised: 11 Dec 2018