US National Awards: Invited Institutions

Invited Institutions

The list of invited institutions is composed of approximately 300 US-based institutions. They include degree-granting universities, private research institutes, academic medical centers, and national government laboratories. Each institution may submit up to three nominations per year, one for each of the three disciplinary categories.

If your institution is not listed and would like to nominate, please send a brief statement of interest to BlavatnikAwards@nyas.org

Alabama

• Auburn University
  Institutional Contact: Steve Taylor
  
• University of Alabama
  Institutional Contact: Jennifer Camp
  
• University of Alabama, Birmingham
  Institutional Contact: Frannie Horn
  
• University of Alabama, Huntsville
  Institutional Contact: David Puleo
  
• University of South Alabama
  Institutional Contact: Jo Bonner
  

Alaska

• University of Alaska, Anchorage
  Institutional Contact: Denise Runge
• University of Alaska, Fairbanks
  Institutional Contact: Anupma Prakash
  
• University of Alaska, Southeast
  Institutional Contact: Carin Denise Silkaitis

Arizona

• Arizona State University
  Institutional Contact: Patricia Friedrich
  
• Northern Arizona University
  Institutional Contact: Andrew Koppisch
  
• University of Arizona
  Institutional Contact: Ronald Marx
  

Arkansas

• University of Arkansas
  Institutional Contact: Charles F. Robinson
  

California

• Buck Institute for Research on Aging
  Institutional Contact: Gordon Lithgow
  
• California Institute of Technology
  Institutional Contact: Lauren Limbert
• Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science
  Institutional Contact: David Carlisle
• City of Hope National Medical Center
  Institutional Contact: Steven Rosen
• Claremont Graduate University
  Institutional Contact: Michelle Bligh
• Gladstone Institutes
  Institutional Contact: Deepak Srivastava
  
• La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology
  Institutional Contact: Shane Crotty
• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  Institutional Contact: Carol Burns
• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  Institutional Contact: Rebecca Nikolic
• Loma Linda University
  Institutional Contact: Ronald L. Carter
• Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
  Institutional Contact: Christopher Scholin
• Salk Institute for Biological Studies
  Institutional Contact: Tom Brazda
  
• San Diego State University
  Institutional Contact: Adela de la Torre
  
• Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute
  Institutional Contact: Amy Peake
  
• Scripps Research Institute
  Institutional Contact: Benjamin Cravatt
• SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
  Institutional Contact: Charlotte Chang
• Stanford Research Institute International
  Institutional Contact: Kathlynn Brown
  
• Stanford University
  Institutional Contact: Jessica Boydston
  
• University of California, Berkeley
  Institutional Contact: Tanya Volkert and Limited Submissions
• University of California, Davis
  Institutional Contact: Gloria Hayes
• University of California, Irvine
  Institutional Contact: Michael A. Gallo, Jr.
• University of California, Los Angeles
  Institutional Contact: Cynthia Gonzalez-Saylor
  
• University of California, Merced
  Institutional Contact: Juan Sánchez Muñoz
• University of California, Riverside
  Institutional Contact: Kim A. Wilcox
• University of California, San Diego
  Institutional Contact: UCSD Limited Submissions Office, Leila Adler
  
• University of California, San Francisco
  Institutional Contact: Melanie Dernyck
• University of California, Santa Barbara
  Institutional Contact: Lynn McLaughlin-Hill
• University of California, Santa Cruz
  Institutional Contact: Caroline Rodriguez
• University of Southern California
  Institutional Contact: Michael Yarksy

Colorado

• Colorado School of Mines
  Institutional Contact: Zach Lynott
  
• Colorado State University
  Institutional Contact: Dinaida Egan
  
• National Jewish Health
  Institutional Contact: Gregory P. Downey
• National Renewable Energy Laboratory
  Institutional Contact: Peter F. Green
• University of Colorado
  Institutional Contact: Todd Saliman
  
• University of Colorado, Boulder
  Institutional Contact: Joan Eaton
• University of Colorado, Denver
  Institutional Contact: Michelle Marks
  
• University of Denver
  Institutional Contact: Corinne Lengsfeld
  
• US Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station
  Institutional Contact: Richard Barhydt

Connecticut

• Trinity College
  Institutional Contact: Sonia Cardenas
• University of Connecticut
  Institutional Contact: Anne D'Alleva
  
• Yale University
  Institutional Contact: Michael Crair

Delaware

• University of Delaware
  Institutional Contact: Scott Mangieri

District of Columbia

• Carnegie Institution for Science
  Institutional Contact: Kristen Palumbo
• Catholic University of America
  Institutional Contact: Peter K. Kilpatrick
• Children's National Medical Center
  Institutional Contact: Nathan Kupperman
• George Washington University
  Institutional Contact: Susan Boerstling
• Georgetown University
  Institutional Contact: Jeffrey Urbach
• Howard University
  Institutional Contact: Anthony K. Wutoh
• Smithsonian Institution
  Institutional Contact: Amy Marino
• University of the District of Columbia
  Institutional Contact: Victor R. McCrary, Jr.
  

Florida

• Florida Atlantic University
  Institutional Contact: Russel Ivy
  
• Florida International University
  Institutional Contact: Kenneth Jessell
  
• Florida State University
  Institutional Contact: Carolyn Bradley
• Max Planck Institute
  Institutional Contact: David Fitzpatrick
• Moffitt Cancer Center
  Institutional Contact: Brian C. Springer
  
• Nova Southeastern University
  Institutional Contact: George L. Hanbury
• University of Central Florida
  Institutional Contact: Michael D. Johnson
  
• University of Florida
  Institutional Contact: Program Development
• University of Miami
  Institutional Contact: Tiffany Plantan
• University of South Florida, Tampa
  Institutional Contact: Sylvia W. Thomas
  

Georgia

• Augusta University
  Institutional Contact: Russel T. Keen
• Emory University
  Institutional Contact: Nicole Dancz-Bal
  
• Georgia Institute of Technology
  Institutional Contact: Michelle Rinehart
  
• Georgia State University
  Institutional Contact: Corrie Fountain
  
• Mercer University
  Institutional Contact: William Underwood
• University of Georgia
  Institutional Contact: Rachel Ankirskiy
  

Hawai'i

• University of Hawai'i at Hilo
  Institutional Contact: Joy Ma
• University of Hawai'i at Manoa
  Institutional Contact: Robert Bley-Vroman

Idaho

• Idaho National Laboratory
  Institutional Contact: Shantay Ames
  
• Idaho State University
  Institutional Contact: Adam Bradford
• University of Idaho
  Institutional Contact: Limited Submission Team
  

Illinois

• Argonne National Laboratory
  Institutional Contact: Matthew Tirrell
• Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
  Institutional Contact: Lia Merminga
  
• Illinois Institute of Technology
  Institutional Contact: Kenneth T. Christensen
  
• Loyola University Chicago
  Institutional Contact: Mark C. Reed
• Midwestern University
  Institutional Contact: James Woods
• Northern Illinois University
  Institutional Contact: Lisa C. Freeman
• Northwestern University
  Institutional Contact: Christopher Schuh
• Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science
  Institutional Contact: Judy Potashkin
• Rush University
  Institutional Contact: Christine M. Kennedy
  
• Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
  Institutional Contact: Costas Tsatsoulis
  
• University of Chicago
  Institutional Contact: Jonathan Trotter
  
• University of Illinois at Chicago
  Institutional Contact: Sarah O'Brien
  
• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  Institutional Contact: Melissa Chan
  

Indiana

• Ball State University
  Institutional Contact: Jacqueline Davis
  
• Indiana University
  Institutional Contact: Amjad Alrehaili
• Purdue University
  Institutional Contact: John Grundy
• University of Notre Dame
  Institutional Contact: Thomas Scrace

Iowa

• Ames Laboratory
  Institutional Contact: James Morris
  
• Iowa State University
  Institutional Contact: Jason Keith
• University of Iowa
  Institutional Contact: Barbara J. Wilson
  

Kansas

• Kansas State University
  Institutional Contact: Jesse Perez Mendez
• University of Kansas
  Institutional Contact: Alicia Reed
• Wichita State University
  Institutional Contact: Shirley Lefever
  

Kentucky

• University of Kentucky
  Institutional Contact: Kathy Grzech
• University of Louisville
  Institutional Contacts: Leigh Botner
  

Louisiana

• Louisiana State University
  Institutional Contact: Kelly Robertson
  
• Louisiana Tech University
  Institutional Contact: Donna B. Thomas
• Tulane University
  Institutional Contact: Michael A. Fitts
• University of Louisiana at Lafayette
  Institutional Contact: Joseph Savoie
• University of New Orleans
  Institutional Contact: Kathy E. Johnson

Maine

• Jackson Laboratory
  Institutional Contact: Mary Dickinson and Anna Lisa Lucido
  
• University of Maine
  Institutional Contact: John Volin

Maryland

• J. Craig Venter Institute
  Institutional Contact: Sanjay Vashee
  
• Johns Hopkins University
  Institutional Contact: Ray Jayawardhana
• Morgan State University
  Institutional Contact: Willie E. May
  
• National Institutes of Health - Intramural Research Program
  Institutional Contact: Nina Schor
  
• National Institute of Standards and Technology
  Institutional Contact: Morgan Frycklund
  
• University of Maryland, Baltimore
  Institutional Contact: Jill Frankenfield
  
• University of Maryland, Baltimore County
  Institutional Contact: Don Engel
• University of Maryland, College Park
  Institutional Contact: Hana Kabashi

Massachusetts

• Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
  Institutional Contact: Tanya Santos
• Boston Children's Hospital
  Institutional Contact: Kevin Churchwell
• Boston College
  Institutional Contact: David Quigley
• Boston University
  Institutional Contact: Gloria S. Waters
• Brandeis University
  Institutional Contact: Carol A. Fierke
  
• Brigham and Women's Hospital
  Institutional Contact: Trey Toombs
  
• Clark University
  Institutional Contact: Jennifer Hanselman
  
• Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
  Institutional Contact: Myles Brown
• Harvard University
  Institutional Contact: Liza Harsch
  
• Marine Biological Laboratory
  Institutional Contact: Kelly Canesi
• Massachusetts General Hospital
  Institutional Contact: Robert Kingston
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Institutional Contact: Ian Waitz
  
• Northeastern University
  Institutional Contact: Kim Holloway
• Tufts University
  Institutional Contact: Caroline Attardo Genco
• University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
  Institutional Contact: Michael F. Collins
• University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  Institutional Contact: Marco Cocito-Monoc
  
• University of Massachusetts, Boston
  Institutional Contact: Joseph B. Berger
  
• University of Massachusetts, Lowell
  Institutional Contact: Julie Chen

Michigan

• Michigan State University
  Institutional Contact: Angela K. Wilson
  
• Michigan Technological University
  Institutional Contact: Andrew Storer
  
• University of Michigan
  Institutional Contact: Santa J. Ono
  
• Van Andel Research Institute
  Institutional Contact: Peter A. Jones
• Wayne State University
  Institutional Contact: Rachel L. Wallace
• Western Michigan University
  Institutional Contact: Julian Vasquez Heilig
  

Minnesota

• Mayo Clinic
  Institutional Contact: Vijay Shah
  
• University of Minnesota, Duluth
  Institutional Contact: Charles Nies
• University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
  Institutional Contact: Chris Bremmer
  

Mississippi

• Jackson State University
  Institutional Contact: ConSandra McNeil
  
• Mississippi State University
  Institutional Contact: Mark Keenum
• University of Mississippi
  Institutional Contact: Greg Easson
  
• University of Southern Mississippi
  Institutional Contact: Lance Nail

Missouri

• Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
  Institutional Contact: James Carrington
• Missouri University of Science and Technology
  Institutional Contact: Mohammad Dehghani
  
• Saint Louis University
  Institutional Contact: Michael Lewis
• Stowers Institute for Medical Research
  Institutional Contact: Kausik Si
• University of Missouri, Columbia
  Institutional Contact: Matthew Martens
  
• University of Missouri, Kansas City
  Institutional Contact: Alex Holsinger
  
• University of Missouri, Saint Louis
  Institutional Contact: Alice Hall
  
• Washington University in St. Louis
  Institutional Contact: Mark Lowe
  

Montana

• Montana State University
  Institutional Contact: Waded Cruzado
• University of Montana
  Institutional Contact: Seth Bodnar
  

Nebraska

• Creighton University
  Institutional Contact: Daniel S. Hendrickson
• University of Nebraska, Lincoln
  Institutional Contact: Rodney D. Bennett
• University of Nebraska, Omaha
  Institutional Contact: Sara Myers

Nevada

• University of Nevada, Las Vegas
  Institutional Contact: Keith E. Whitfield
  
• University of Nevada, Reno
  Institutional Contact: Aurora Pinkey
  

New Hampshire

• Dartmouth College
  Institutional Contact: Yvonne Devineni​
  
• University of New Hampshire
  Institutional Contact: Elizabeth S. Chilton
  

New Jersey

• Institute for Advanced Study
  Institutional Contact: David Nirenberg
• New Jersey Institute of Technology
  Institutional Contact: Atam Dhawan
• NOAA Geophysical Dynamics Laboratory
  Institutional Contact: Venkatachalam Ramaswamy
• Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
  Institutional Contact: Jonathan Menard
  
• Princeton University
  Institutional Contact: Michael Hodges
• Rutgers University
  Institutional Contact: Angela Mullis
  
• Rutgers University - Newark
  Institutional Contact: Piotr Piotrowiak
  
• Stevens Institute of Technology
  Institutional Contact: Nariman Farvardin

New Mexico

• Los Alamos National Laboratory
  Institutional Contact: Anita Gallegos
  
• New Mexico State University
  Institutional Contact: R.T. James McAteer
• Sandia National Laboratories
  Institutional Contact: Basil Hassan
• University of New Mexico
  Institutional Contact: Monica Fishel

New York

• Albany Medical College
  Institutional Contact: Paul Feustel
• Albert Einstein College of Medicine
  Institutional Contact: Indranil Basu
  
• American Museum of Natural History
  Institutional Contact: John Flynn
• Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research
  Institutional Contact: Sylvia Restrepo
  
• Brookhaven National Laboratory
  Institutional Contact: JoAnne Hewett
• Brooklyn College
  Institutional Contact: April Bedford
  
• Burke Neurological Institute
  Institutional Contact: Rajiv Ratan
• Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
  Institutional Contact: Joshua Ginsberg
  
• City College of New York
  Institutional Contact: Tony Liss
  
• Clarkson University
  Institutional Contact: Christopher Robinson
• Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
  Institutional Contact: Bruce W. Stillman
  
• Columbia University
  Institutional Contact: Greg Culler
  
• Cornell University
  Institutional Contact: Elizabeth Diaz
  
• The Graduate Center, CUNY
  Institutional Contact: Steve Everett
  
• Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research
  Institutional Contact: Limited Submission Office
  
• The Flatiron Institute
  Institutional Contact: Molly Lopez
  
• Fordham University
  Institutional Contact: Dennis C. Jacobs
  
• Hunter College
  Institutional Contact: Nancy Cantor
• Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
  Institutional Contact: Dennis Charney
• Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
  Institutional Contact: Mercedes Gorre
  
• New York Blood Center
  Institutional Contact: Christpher D. Hillyer
• New York Medical College
  Institutional Contact: Edward Halperin
• New York University
  Institutional Contact: Farooq Niazi
• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  Institutional Contact: Sarah Niemann
• Rochester Institute of Technology
  Institutional Contact: LaVerne 
  McQuiller Williams
• Rockefeller University
  Institutional Contact: Frances Yee
  
• Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
  Institutional Contact: Judith Epstein
• SUNY-College of Environmental Science and Forestry
  Institutional Contact: Lindi Quackenbush
  
• SUNY-Downstate Medical Center
  Institutional Contact: David Christini
• SUNY-State University at Binghamton
  Institutional Contact: Harvey Stenger
• SUNY-State University at Buffalo
  Institutional Contact: Carol O'Connell
• SUNY-Stony Brook University
  Institutional Contact: Emmy Yan
  
• SUNY-University at Albany
  Institutional Contact: Satyendra Kumar
  
• SUNY-Upstate Medical Center
  Institutional Contact: David C. Amberg
• Syracuse University
  Institutional Contact: Duncan Brown
  
• University of Rochester
  Institutional Contact: Sarah C. Mangelsdorf
• Wadsworth Center
  Institutional Contact: Erin Davis
  
• Weill Cornell Medical College
  Institutional Contact: Florencia Marcucci
  

North Carolina

• Duke University
  Institutional Contact: Vincent Price
• East Carolina University
  Institutional Contact: Robin N. Coger
• North Carolina A & T State University
  Institutional Contact: Tonjia May
• North Carolina State University
  Institutional Contact: Genevieve Garland
• University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  Institutional Contact: Christopher Clemmens
• University of North Carolina, Greensboro
  Institutional Contact: Franklin D. Gilliam, Jr.
• Wake Forest University
  Institutional Contact: Susan R. Wente
  

North Dakota

• North Dakota State University
  Institutional Contact: David Bertolini
  
• University of North Dakota
  Institutional Contact: Eric C. Link
  

Ohio

• Bowling Green State University
  Institutional Contact: Rodney K. Rogers
• Case Western Reserve University
  Institutional Contact: J. Michael Oakes
  
• Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
  Institutional Contact: Jamilah Hackworth
  
• Cleveland Clinic
  Institutional Contact: Donna Driscoll
• Cleveland State University
  Institutional Contact: Roman Kondratov
• Kent State University
  Institutional Contact: Doug Delahanty
  
• Miami University
  Institutional Contact: Ruth Groom
  
• Ohio State University
  Institutional Contact: Luiza Newlin-Lukowicz
  
• Ohio University
  Institutional Contact: Marta Gomez
  
• University of Akron
  Institutional Contact: John Wiencek
• University of Cincinnati
  Institutional Contact: Kristen Oberholzer
  
• University of Dayton
  Institutional Contact: Eric F. Spina
• University of Toledo
  Institutional Contact: Scott Molitor
  
• Wright State University
  Institutional Contact: Amy Thompson

Oklahoma

• Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
  Institutional Contact: Courtney Griffin
• Oklahoma State University
  Institutional Contact: Kenneth Sewell
• Noble Research Institute
  Institutional Contact: Carol Smith Drew
  
• University of Oklahoma
  Institutional Contact: Ann H. West
  
• University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
  Institutional Contact: Dawn Hammon
  

Oregon

• Oregon Health & Science University
  Institutional Contact: Peter Barr-Gillespie
  
• Oregon State University
  Institutional Contact: Jayathi Y. Murthy
• Portland State University
  Institutional Contact: Richard Tankersly
• University of Oregon
  Institutional Contact: Catherine Jarmin Miller
  

Pennsylvania

• Carnegie Mellon University
  Institutional Contact: Leah Picker
• Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
  Institutional Contact: Kate Maloney-Gross
• Drexel University
  Institutional Contact: Aleister Saunders
• Duquesne University
  Institutional Contact: Ken Gormley
  
• Fox Chase Cancer Center
  Institutional Contact: Jonathan Chernoff
  
• Lehigh University
  Institutional Contact: Anada Jagota
• Monell Chemical Senses Center
  Institutional Contact: Benjamin P.C. Smith
  
• National Energy Technology Laboratory
  Institutional Contact: NETL Awards & Nicole McVey
  
• Pennsylvania State University
  Institutional Contact: Jara Dorsey-Lash
  
• Temple University
  Institutional Contact: Miguel Mostafá
  
• Thomas Jefferson University
  Institutional Contact: Melissa Elgendy
• University of Pennsylvania
  Institutional Contact: Dawn Bonnell
  
• University of Pittsburgh
  Institutional Contact: researchdev@pitt.edu
• Ursinus College
  Institutional Contact: Will Caverly
• Wistar Institute
  Institutional Contact: Dario C. Altieri

Puerto Rico

• University of Puerto Rico
  Institutional Contact: José Lasalde Dominicci

Rhode Island

• Brown University
  Institutional Contact: Margaret Manning
  
• University of Rhode Island
  Institutional Contact: Karen Markin
  

South Carolina

• Clemson University
  Institutional Contact: Thomas Kealy
• Medical University of South Carolina
  Institutional Contact: David J. Cole
• Savannah River National Laboratory
  Institutional Contact: Vahid Majidi
  
• University of South Carolina
  Institutional Contact: Jennifer McCormack
  

South Dakota

• South Dakota State University
  Institutional Contact: Jason Zimmerman
• University of South Dakota
  Institutional Contact: Kurt Hackemer
  

Tennessee

• Meharry Medical College
  Institutional Contact: James E.K. Hildreth
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  Institutional Contact: Moody Altamimi
• St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
  Institutional Contact: Saundra Harris
  
• University of Memphis
  Institutional Contact: Bill Hardgrave
• University of Tennessee Health Science Center
  Institutional Contact: Peter Buckley
  
• University of Tennessee, Knoxville
  Institutional Contact: Hannah Schmidt
  
• Vanderbilt University
  Institutional Contact: Padma Raghavan

Texas

• Baylor College of Medicine
  Institutional Contact: Sheila Quinn
  
• Baylor University
  Institutional Contact: Linda Livingstone
• MD Anderson Cancer Center
  Institutional Contact: Guilio Draetta
  
• Rice University
  Institutional Contact: Devon Jones
  
• Southern Methodist University
  Institutional Contact: Brenna Rivas
• Texas A & M University
  Institutional Contact: Heather C. Lench
  
• Texas A & M AgriLife Research
  Institutional Contact: Amir Ibrahim
• Texas A & M University Engineering Experiment Station
  Institutional Contact: Arul Jayaraman
• Texas Biomedical Research Institute
  Institutional Contact: Larry Schlesinger
  
• Texas Tech University
  Institutional Contact: Stephanie J. Jones
  
• University of Houston
  Institutional Contact: Renu Khator
• University of North Texas
  Institutional Contact: Harrison Keller
• University of North Texas Health Science Center
  Institutional Contact: Brian Gladue
  
• University of Texas Health Science Center Houston
  Institutional Contact: Amy Hazen
• University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
  Institutional Contact: Natalia Glubisz
• University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
  Institutional Contact: Daniel K. Podolsky
• University of Texas, Arlington
  Institutional Contact: Kate Miller
  
• University of Texas, Austin
  Institutional Contact: Bob McGarrett
  
• University of Texas, Dallas
  Institutional Contact: Inga Musselman
  
• University of Texas, El Paso
  Institutional Contact: John Wiebe
• University of Texas, San Antonio
  Institutional Contact: JoAnn Browning

Utah

• Brigham Young University
  Institutional Contact: Kris Nelson
  
• University of Utah
  Institutional Contact: Sara Salmon
  
• Utah State University
  Institutional Contact: Jeri Hansen
  

Vermont

• University of Vermont
  Institutional Contact: Krista Koeller

Virginia

• College of William and Mary
  Institutional Contact: Peggy Agouris
  
• Eastern Virginia Medical School
  Institutional Contact: Alfred Abuhamad
  
• George Mason University
  Institutional Contact: James Antony
• Janelia Farm Research Campus
  Institutional Contact: Nelson Spruston
• Old Dominion University
  Institutional Contact: Yvette Pearson
• Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
  Institutional Contact: David J. Dean
• University of Virginia
  Institutional Contact: Ian Baucom
  
• Virginia Commonwealth University
  Institutional Contact: Archana Pathak
• Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  Institutional Contact: Tim Sands

Washington

• Allen Institute
  Institutional Contact: Maria Gonzalez-White
• Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
  Institutional Contact: Fred Appelbaum
  
• Institute for Systems Biology
  Institutional Contact: Jim Heath
  
• Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  Institutional Contact: Tony Peurrung
• University of Washington
  Institutional Contact: Karen Luetjen
  
• Washington State University
  Institutional Contact: Douglas Call
  

West Virginia

• West Virginia University
  Institutional Contact: E. Gordon Gee

Wisconsin

• Medical College of Wisconsin
  Institutional Contact: John R. Raymond, Sr.
• Morgridge Institute for Research
  Institutional Contact: Billy Swisher
• University of Wisconsin - Madison
  Institutional Contact: Cynthia Czajkowski
• University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
  Institutional Contact: Anne Kissack

Wyoming

• University of Wyoming
  Institutional Contact: Kevin Carman