International Advisory Council
Monell’s International Advisory Council is a panel of respected advisors drawn from the worlds of academia, government, business, and philanthropy. Established in 1968, the IAC provides valued guidance to the Center’s leadership, helping to prioritize goals, identify resources, and define new directions for Monell’s research programs.
Todd Abraham, PhD
Chair
Chief Innovation Officer, The Cronos Group
Carlos Barroso
President, CJB and Associates
Larry Clark, PhD
Director, National Wildlife Research Center (Retired)
USDA-APHIS-WS
Frank A. Franklin II, PhD, JD, MPH
Deputy Commissioner of Health, Philadelphia Department of Public Health
Josh Ghaim
Founder, Ignite Venture Studio
Sheetal Ghelani
Associate Director, Operations, Global Health Sciences
Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc.
Christiani Jeyakumar Henry
Deputy Executive Director
Singapore Institute of Food and Biotechnology Innovation
Director, Clinical Nutrition Research Centre
Harry Levine, PhD
Associate, Louise Slade Food Polymer Science Consultancy
Shawn M. Marcell
President & CEO, Torus Biosystems, Inc
Maia Monell, MS
Co-Founder & CMA, Nav.it
Communications, The Ambrose Monell Foundation, & The G. Unger Vetlesen Foundation
Edmund Pribitkin, MD, MBA
President, Jefferson Medical Group
Chief Medical Officer, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
Diego Restrepo, PhD
Professor, Department of Cell & Developmental Biology
University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus
Gary J. Schwartz, PhD
Professor of Medicine, Neuroscience, and Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Pamela Silberman
Principal, PSS Advisory Services, LLC
Kazu Touhara, PhD
Professor, Department of Applied Biological Chemistry
Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo
Recent IAC Alumni
James J. Albrecht, PhD
Consultant to Food Industry and Agribusiness
Robert Eilerman, PhD
Givaudan Corporation
Former Senior Vice President, Global Flavor Science & Technology
John D. Fernstrom, PhD
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Professor of Psychiatry, Pharmacology & Behavioral Neuroscience
Takeshi Kimura, PhD
Corporate VP for Research & Development, Ajinomoto Co., Inc. (Retired)
Special Technical Adviser, Morimura Bros., Inc.
Charles M. Peterson, MD, PhD, MBA
Senior Advisor, Geneva Foundation in support of Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP)
President, MarquiSci
Arthur H. Rubenstein, MBBCh
University of Pennsylvania
Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine
Professor of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism