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Sample: "Research supported in this publication was supported by the EKS NICHD of the NIH under Award #1P50HD103537-01. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH."

Internal Advisory Committee

The Internal Advisory Committee (IAC) provides the IDDRC Director with written recommendations on alterations in operations, core services, and strategic direction. The IAC is composed of senior Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) and Vanderbilt University (VU) leadership and serves to provide oversight to the IDDRC and to guide alignment to VU/VUMC strategy through formal annual meetings.

Jennifer Pietenpol, Ph.D. (VUMC)
Director, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
Executive Vice President for Research, VUMC
Benjamin F. Byrd, Jr. Professor of Oncology
Brock Family Directorship in Career Development
Professor of Biochemistry and Otolaryngology
Gordon Bernard, M.D. (VUMC)
Melinda Owen Bass Chair in Medicine
Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Science
Associate Vice Chancellor for Research
Padma Raghavan, Ph.D. (VU)
Vice Provost for Research
Professor of Computer Science and Computer Engineering
Lisa Monteggia, Ph.D. (VU)
Barlow Family Director of the Vanderbilt Brain Institute
Professor of Pharmacology

IDDRC Leadership

Director, Principal Investigator - Jeffrey Neul, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Director - Laurie Cutting, Ph.D.
Director of Operations - Tim Stafford, MMHC
Director of Training and Education Services and Communications - Courtney Taylor

Core Directors

Core A Director - Jeffrey Neul, M.D., Ph.D.
Core B Director - Beth Malow, M.D., M.S.
Core C Director - Laurie Cutting, Ph.D.
Core D Directors - Sarika Peters, Ph.D., Fiona Harrison, Ph.D., Mark Wallace, Ph.D.
Core E Director - Hakmook Kang, Ph.D.

The VKC Eunice Kennedy Shriver Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center is funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Grant #1P50HD103537-01.