Board of Advisors

James Barnes Wyngaarden, M.D.
Former Director, National Institutes of Health

Dr. James B. Wyngaarden, former director of the National Institutes of Health (1982-1989) spent much of his distinguished career at Duke University, where he served as the Frederic M. Hanes Professor and Chairman, Department of Medicine, 1967-82.

He also served as the Associate Director for Life Sciences, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President, 1989-90; Foreign Secretary, U.S. National Academy of Sciences, 1990-1994; and was a member of the Washington Advisory Group, 1996-2002.

Acheivements and Awards:

• Recipient of the Modern Medicine Award for Distinguished Achievement, 1974
• Elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1974
• Won the North Carolina Governor's Award in Science, 1974
• Appointed to the President's Committee for the National Medal of Science, 1977-80
• won the Founder's Medal, Southern Society for Clinical Investigation, 1978
• John Phillips Memorial Award, American College of Physicians, 1980
• Became an honorary member of the Sociedad Medica de Santiago de Chile, 1981
• Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London, 1984
• Received the Distinguished Alumnus Award, Western Michigan University, 1984
• Elected to the Royal Academy of Sciences of Sweden in 1987
• U.S.-Israel Binational Foundation Board of Governors in 1987
• French and American AIDS Foundation Board of Trustees in 1987
• World AIDS Foundation Board of Directors, 1987
• Was chairman of the Biotechnology Sciences Coordinating Committee, OSTP, 1988
• Received the Kober Medal from the Association of American Physicians in 1991

Dr. Wyngaarden is a member of the following organizations:

• American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• American Association for the Advancement of Science
• American Board of Internal Medicine
• American Clinical and Climatological Association
• American College of Physicians
• American Federation for Clinical Research
• American Rheumatism Association
• American Society for Clinical Investigation
• American Society of Biological Chemists
• Association of American Physicians
• Endocrine Society
• National Academy of Sciences
• NAS/Institute of Medicine
• Southern Society for Clinical Investigation
• Sigma Xi
• Former Director of the Human Genome Organization 1990-1991

Education

B.S. - Western Michigan University, Michigan, 1944
M.D. - University of Michigan Medical School, Michigan, 1948