The SRB works with the Medical Advisory Board in this capacity. Their opinions are advisory to the president.

The SRB is constituted to have a breadth of expertise that encompasses that of the HHMI investigators. Typically 25-35 members are sufficient to span the relevant biomedical subfields. The term of appointment of each member is four years. Appointments are made by the vice president who has responsibility for organization of the investigator reviews, subject to approval by the president.

Each SRB member participates in one, or occasionally two, investigator review meetings per year. They are assigned investigator reviews that are aligned with their own scientific expertise. SRB members are also expected to attend one of the Institute's scientific meetings each year.

SRB Members

• Larry Abbott, PhD
  William Bloor Professor of Theoretical Neuroscience
  Kolb Research Annex
  Columbia University
• Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas, PhD
  Professor of Cell Biology
  Department of Cell Biology
  Harvard Medical School
• Patricia Babbitt, PhD
  Professor and Vice Chair
  Department of Bioengineering & Therapeutic Sciences
  University of California, San Francisco
• William E. Balch, PhD
  Professor
  Department of Cell & Molecular Biology
  The Scripps Research Institute
• Mary Beckerle, PhD
  Ralph E. and Willa T. Main Presidential Professor
  Chief Executive Officer and Director
  Associate Vice President for Cancer Affairs
  Huntsman Cancer Institute
  University of Utah
• Stephen J. Benkovic, PhD
  Evan Pugh Professor and Eberly Chair in Chemistry
  Department of Chemistry
  The Pennsylvania State University
• William A. Catterall, PhD
  Professor and Chair
  Department of Pharmacology
  University of Washington School of Medicine
• Aravinda Chakravarti, PhD
  Professor
  Departments of Medicine, Pediatrics, and Molecular Biology and Genetics
  Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
• Vicki L. Chandler, PhD
  Chief Program Officer, Science
  Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
• Michael Czech, PhD
  Professor and Chair
  Program in Molecular Medicine
  University of Massachusetts Medical School
• Vishva Dixit, MD
  Vice President, Early Discovery Research
  Genentech, Inc.
• Gary Gilliland, MD, PhD
  President and Director
  Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
• Susan Gottesman, PhD
  Chief, Biochemical Genetics Section
  Laboratory of Molecular Biology
  Center for Cancer Research
  National Cancer Institute
• Carol A. Gross, PhD
  Professor
  University of California San Franciso Medical Center
• Scott Hawley, PhD
  Investigator
  Stowers Institute for Medical Research
• Richard Henderson, PhD, FRS
  MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
• Bertil Hille, PhD
  Professor
  Department of Physiology and Biophysics
  University of Washington
• Peter S. Kim, PhD
  Department of Biochemistry
  Stanford University School of Medicine.
• Marc W. Kirschner, PhD
  Chair and Professor
  Systems Biology
  Harvard Medical School
• Robb Krumlauf, PhD
  Scientific Director
  Stowers Institute for Medical Research
• Story Landis, PhD
  Former Director
  National Institute of Neurological Disorders
• Lynn Landmesser, PhD
  Garvin Professor and Chair
  Department of Neurosciences
  Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
• Eve Marder, PhD
  Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield Professor of Neuroscience
  Biology Department and Volen Center
  Brandeis University
• Michael A. Marletta, PhD
  Cecil H. and Ida M. Green Professor of Chemistry
  The Scripps Research Institute
• Joan Massague, PhD
  Director
  Sloan Kettering Institute
• Diane Mathis, PhD
  Professor of Pathology
  Department of Microbiology
  Harvard Medical School
• Marcus Meister, PhD
  Professor of Biology
  Division of Biology and Biological Engineering
  California Institute of Technology
• Andrew Murray, PhD
  Herschel Smith Professor of Molecular Genetics
  Harvard University
• W. James Nelson, PhD
  Rudy J. and Daphne Donohue Munzer Endowed Professor
  Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology
  James H. Clark Center, The Bio-X Program
  Stanford University Medical School
• Eric N. Olson, PhD
  Professor and Chairman
  Department of Molecular Biology
  University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
• Luis F. Parada, PhD
  Professor and Chairman
  Department of Biology
  University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
• Hidde Ploegh, PhD
  Member,Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
  Professor of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• David Russell, PhD
  Vice Provost and Dean of Basic Research
  McDermott Distinguished Professor
  Department of Molecular Genetics
  University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
• Joshua R. Sanes, PhD
  Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
  Director, Center for Brain Science
  Harvard University
• Robert T. Sauer, PhD
  Salvador E. Luria Professor
  Department of Biology
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Richard Tsien, PhD
  Druckenmiller Professor of Neuroscience
  New York University Langone Medical Center
• Susan Wessler, PhD
  Distinguished Professor of Genetics
  Department of Botany and Plant Sciences
  University of California, Riverside
• Huntington F. Willard, PhD
  President and Director
  Marine Biological Laboratory