External Advisory Committee

The External Advisory Committee, consisting of five members, oversees the selection, monitoring, and assessment of DRPP investigators, reviewing network operations semi-annually and submitting annual reports with improvement recommendations to the Steering Committee. Composed of established scientists with NIH research program experience, the EAC provides an external perspective on the DRPP’s health-focused areas, approving project selections before NIGMS programmatic approval when necessary.

Ann Bertagnolli

Montana State University

Retired From MSU Honors College
Former Montana INBRE Coordinator
atgbertagnolli@outlook.com 

Joseph Konopelski

UC Santa Cruz

Professor Emeritus
Chemistry & Biochemistry Department
joek@ucsc.ed 

Jean Patterson

TX Biomedical Research Institute

Professor, Chair of BSL-4 Task Force
Emerritus
jpatters@TxBiomed.org 

Carolyn Hovde Bohach

University of Idaho

Director of the NIH Idaho INBRE Program
University Distinguished Professor
cbohach@uidaho.edu