BIRN Executive Committee
The BIRN Executive Committee is tasked with implementing BIRN-wide policy and sets BIRN-wide priorities. The BEC is composed of the principal investigators of the core test beds as well as the NCRR program officers. The BEC meets three to four times a year and once a month via conference call. The chair of the EC rotates annually among the PIs.
Current BEC Members:
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Greg Farber, NIH-NCRR BIRN Program Officer |
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Elaine Collier, NIH-NCRR, Division of Clinical Research | |
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Mark Ellisman, Director BIRN CC, UC San Diego |
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Steve Potkin, Function BIRN PI UC Irvine | |
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Morphometry BIRN PI Harvard (current chair) |
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Art Toga, Mouse BIRN PI UC Los Angeles |
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Joe Ames, Executive Committee Director UC Irvine |








