Scientific Committee

The Telethon Scientific Committee is composed of scientists of international standing, serving a  four-year term. To minimize potential conflicts of interest, Italian members working in Italy are kept to a minimum. Currently there are 30 members, 3 of which are Italian (one currently working in Italy, 2 abroad).

For the evaluation of proposals, the Scientific Committee uses the peer-review process. Before the plenary discussion, each proposed project is evaluated by three members of the committee and at least two external referees chosen from scientists working in the international arena. It is an indispensable  procedure which leads to only the best projects being chosen for funding.

Members of the Scientific Committee are also entrusted to periodically evaluate the work of researchers who work in the Telethon institutions. Here is a list of our current members: 

 
PRESIDENT  - Thomas Rando
Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford (USA)
 

MEMBERS 2013

Adriano Aguzzi 
University Hospital of Zurich, Zurich (CH)

Robin Ali
University College London Institute of Ophthalmology, London (UK)

Nancy Bonini
Howard Hughes Medical Institute & University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (USA)

Robert Brosh
National Institute on Aging, Baltimore (USA)

Patrik Brundin
Lund University, Lund (SE)

Han Brunner
Nijmegen Centre for Molecular Life Sciences, Nijmegen (NL)

Jeffrey Chamberlain
University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle (USA)

Marco Colonna
Washington University, St. Louis (USA)

Fabrizio D'Adda Di Fagagna
Institute of Molecular Oncology Foundation and European Institute of Oncology, Milan (IT)

Daniel Garry
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (USA)

Alfred L. George
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville (USA)

Gregory Germino
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (USA)

David Goldstein
Duke University School of Medicine, Durham (USA)

Joel Gottesfeld
The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla (USA)

Leslie Griffith
National Center for Behavioral Genomics, Brandeis University, Waltham (USA)

Bernard Hoflack
Dresden University of Technology, Dresden (DE)

Gail Johnson
University of Rochester, Rochester (USA)

Albert La Spada
UC San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla (USA)

Barry London
University of Iowa Health Care, Iowa City  (USA)

Punam Malik
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati (USA)

Jeffrey Molkentin
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati (USA)

Michael Murphy
Medical Research Council Mitochondrial Biology Unit, Cambridge (UK)

Michael Rudnicki
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa (CAN)

Sandra Schmid
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, (USA)

Andrea Superti-Furga
University of Lausanne, Lausanne (CHE)

Antoine Triller
Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Paris (FR)

Flora Vaccarino
Yale University, New Haven, USA

Maarten van Lohuizen
Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam (NED)

Ora Weisz
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh (USA)

Steven Wilson
University College London, London (UK)