Biomedical Research Core Facilities Committee

The Biomedical Research Core Facilities Committee provides oversight of cores.  The Biomedical Research Core Facilities Committee is advisory to the Dean through the Office of the Executive Vice Dean and Chief Scientific Officer.

The Committee provides guidance regarding research core facilities’ quality of service, user satisfaction, fiscal responsibility, and resource allocation.  As appropriate, the committee approves and helps establish new cores, as well as new services within existing cores.  Committee members serve an important role in supporting timely, state-of-the-art service to the PSOM research community.


Yale Cohen, PhD (Chair)
Assistant Dean of Research Facilities and Resources for the Perelman School of Medicine
Gabriel Tucker Professor II, Department of Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery

Michael Betts, PhD
Associate Professor of Microbiology

Ted Brodkin, MD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry

Maja Bucan, PhD
Professor of Genetics

Roberto Dominguez, PhD
Professor of Physiology

Mark Drinker
Associate Director for Administration, Ellen and Ronald Caplan Cancer Center of The Wistar Institute

Meredith Fetters
Information Technology Director

Wei-Ting Hwang, PhD
Professor of Biostatistics

Kiran Musunuru, MD, PhD, MPH, ML
Professor of Medicine

Paula Oliver, PhD
Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Warren Pear, MD, PhD
Gaylord P. and Mary Louise Harnwell Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

John Seykora, MD, PhD
Professor, Departments of Dermatology and Pathology

M. Celeste Simon, PhD
Scientific Director and Investigator, Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute
Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology

Nancy Speck, PhD
Chair of the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology

Greg Van Duyne, PhD
Jacob Gershon-Cohen Professor of Medical Science

Ex Officio Member

Jiju Mathew
Manager, Finance