Program Committee
Duties:
The Program Committee shall promote, review and select scientific and technical papers for presentation at meetings of the Society.
Composition:
The Chairperson of the Program Committee shall be appointed by the President. The number of members of the Program Committee shall be at least three.
The goal of the Program Committee is to develop the scientific program for the Annual Meeting.
How does an idea become a session at an SFB Annual Meeting?
Learn more about the six types of sessions, and about the full process here.
2026 - 2027 Program Committee Members:
- Program Co-Chair: Cole A. DeForest, PhD, University of Washington
- Program Co-Chair: Adam Jakus, PhD, PRO Therapeutics | BioThera3 Advising & Consulting
- Student Representative: Nicole Racca, PhD, University of Michigan
- SIG Representative: Janet Zoldan, PhD, University of Texas at Austin
- Rameshwar Rao, MD, PhD, Seattle Children's Research Institute
- Delphine Dean, PhD, Clemson University
- Jennifer Woodell May, PhD, Zimmer Biomet, Inc.
- Rebecca Keate, PhD, Northwestern University
- Leslie W. Chan, PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Eun Ji Chung, PhD, University of Southern California
- Yi Hong, PhD, The University of Texas at Arlington
- SIG Chair Representative: TBD
- COOL Committee Representative: TBD