Joint Associations Group (JAG) on Indirect Costs

Chair

• Kelvin Droegemeier, Professor and Special Advisor to the Chancellor for Science and Policy, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; former WHOSTP Director

University Senior Research Leadership/Research Administration

• Penny Gordon-Larsen, Vice Chancellor for Research, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Tim Lieuwen, Executive Vice President for Research, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Jennifer Lodge, Vice President for Research and Innovation, Duke University
• Willie May, Vice President for Research and Economic Development, Morgan State University
• Stacey Patterson, Vice President for Research, Florida State University
• Nick Wigginton, Associate Vice Provost for Research, Johns Hopkins University

Academic Medical Centers/Hospital Leaders

• Anupam Agarwal, Senior Vice President for Medicine and Dean, Heersink School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham
• Nancy Andrews, Executive Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer, Boston Children's Hospital; Dean Emerita, Duke University School of Medicine
• Howard Fox, Senior Associate Dean of Research and Development, University of Nebraska Medical Center
• Ming Lei, Senior Associate Vice President for Research and Graduate Education, West Virginia University Health Sciences; Vice Dean of Research, School of Medicine, West Virginia University

University Operations and Finances

• Robert Cramer, Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• David Gray, Executive Vice Chancellor for Finance and Chief Financial Officer, Washington University in St. Louis
• Sarah Norris Hall, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, University of Washington
• Steve Zuraf, Director of Cost Accounting and Analysis, University of Maryland

Independent Research Institutes/Medical Centers Operations and Finance

• Jim Incalcaterra, Vice President of Finance Analytics and Treasury, MD Anderson Cancer Center
• Kurt Marek, Chief Research Development Officer, Sanford Burnham Prebys
• Diego Vazquez, Director, Sponsored Research Administration, The Jackson Laboratory

Private Sector

• Marty Conger, Battelle (Retired); Former Chief Financial Officer, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
• Michael Rosenfield, Consultant (Retired)

Foundations

• Euan Robertson, Chief Operating Officer, Simons Foundation

Former Government/Agency Officials

• Kristina Baum Gargiulo, Former WHOSTP Director of Communications; and House & Senate Committee Communications Director
• Sally Rockey, Former Deputy Director for Extramural Research, National Institutes of Health (Retired)
• Gil Tran, Senior Specialist Leader, Grants Management, Attain Partners; Former Senior Policy Analyst, White House Office of Management and Budget, Office of Federal Financial Management

University Government Relations

• Neil Canfield, Executive Director for Federal Relations and Federal Research, University of Michigan
• Stacy Rastauskas, Vice President for Government Affairs, The Ohio State University

Research Faculty/Principal Investigator

• Gene Robinson, Director, Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

SME Team Support Staff

• Meredith Asbury, Assistant Vice President for Government Relations and Public Policy, Association of American Universities
• Cindy Hope, Director for Costing and Financial Compliance, COGR

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