Meet Our Scientists

Story C. Landis, Ph.D.

Chair, NIH Stem Cell Task Force
Director, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)

Dr. Landis's biography page is available from NINDS.

James F. Battey, Jr., M.D., Ph.D.

Vice Chair, NIH Stem Cell Task Force
Director, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders

James F. Battey, Jr. received his Bachelors of Science degree in Physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1974. He received an M.D. and Ph. D. in Biophysics from Stanford University School of Medicine in 1980. After receiving training in Pediatrics, he pursued a postdoctoral fellowship in Genetics at Harvard Medical School under the mentorship of Dr. Philip Leder. Since completing his postdoctoral fellowship in 1983, he has held a variety of positions at the National Institutes of Health, serving in the National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, and the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. Currently, he is the Director of the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, and also serves as the Vice Chair, NIH Stem Cell Task Force. He has been married for 27 years to Frances Battey, and has two sons, Michael and JJ.

E-mail: batteyJ@nidcd.nih.gov

Ronald D.G. McKay, Ph.D.

Director, NIH Stem Cell Unit
Senior Investigator and Director of the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Institute on Neurological Disorders and Stroke

Dr. McKay received a B.Sc. in 1971 and a Ph.D. in 1974 from University of Edinburgh, where he studied under the tutelage of Edwin Southern examining DNA organization and chromosome structure. He received postdoctoral training at University of Oxford working with Walter Bodner examining restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLPs). In 1978 he became a senior staff investigator at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory concentrating on two areas: the interaction of SV40 T-antigen with the specific binding site at the viral origin of replication and the molecular organization of the nervous system. Joining the MIT faculty in 1984, Dr. McKay continued to examine different aspects of neuronal organization in the nervous system. In 1993 he came to NINDS as chief of the Laboratory of Molecular biology. His laboratory is studying stem cell differentiation.

E-mail: mckayr@ninds.nih.gov