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Executive Committee

The Executive Committee is composed of leadership from each Core. The EC plays a key role in the strategic leadership of the MCHD to ensure compliance with NIGMS fiscal, regulatory and programmatic policies and procedures.

	Channabasavaiah Gurumurthy, MVSC, PhD, Exec. MBA Principal Investigator Professor, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology Director, Genome editing Research, Education and Animal genome Targeting (GREAT Core) cgurumurthy@umc.edu
	Jan M. Williams, PhD Director of Education and Mentorship Assistant Dean of Student Affairs and Recruitment School of Graduate Studies in Health Sciences Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology Jmwilliams5@umc.edu
	Mauricio J. De Castro, MD Interim Chief, Associate Professor Department of Pediatrics,Division of Genetics and Metabolism Associate Professor, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology mdecastro@umc.edu
	D. Ashley Robinson, PhD Professor and Interim Chair, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology Director, Molecular and Genomics Core Core Leader - Core B - Omics and Gene-Editing Core darobinson@umc.edu
	Lavanya Challagundla, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology Director, Core C - Research, Computing, Bioinformatics and Biostatistics lchallagundla@umc.edu