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Interim Director

Joseph R. Bertino, MD
University Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology
Interim Director of The Cancer Institute of New Jersey
UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Board of Managers

Peter S. Amenta, MD, PhD
Interim Dean, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Kenneth Breslauer, PhD
Linus C. Pauling Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Dean and Director of the Division of Life Sciences
Vice President for Health Science Partnerships
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Philip Furmanski, PhD, Co-chair
Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Heather Howard, Esq.
Senior Policy Counsel, Office of the Governor

Fred Jacobs, MD, JD
Commissioner
New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services

Alice Lustig
Chief Financial and Operating Officer
UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Denise Mulkern, CPA
Senior Vice President, Administration and Finance
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey

Patricia Riccio
New Jersey Citizens’ Coalition for Cures

Denise Rodgers, MD, Co-chair
Executive Vice President for Academic and Clinical Affairs
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey

Harold T. Shapiro, PhD
President Emeritus
Princeton University
Chair of New Jersey Ethics Advisory Panel for Stem Cell Research
and former chair of the National Bioethics Advisory Commission

Eric Shuffler, Esq.
Warrington Fox Shuffler Strategic Counselors

Joshua Trojack
Acting Executive Director
New Jersey Commission on Science & Technology

Nancy S. Winterbauer, EdD
Vice President for University Budgeting
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey