American Society for Photobiology

Promoting the Photobiological Sciences

Leadership

President:
Ryan McCulla (’26-’28)
rmccull2@slu.edu
St Louis University

President-Elect:
Masaoki Kawasumi ('26-'28)
masaoki.k@gmail.com
The Ohio State University

Past-President:
Sherri McFarland (’26-’28)
sherri.mcfarland@uta.edu
University of Texas, Arlington

Secretary:
Martin Schnermann ('26-'28)
martin.schnermann@nih.gov
National Cancer Institute

Treasurer:
Theresa Busch (’15-‘26)
Theresa.Busch@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
University of Pennsylvania

Editor-in-Chief:
Alexander Greer
agreer@brooklyn.cuny.edu

Managing Secretariat:
Jill Drupa
jdrupa@burkinc.com
Burk, Inc.

Executive Secretariat:
Brett Burk
bburk@burkinc.com
Burk, Inc.

Councilors:

Jean Luc Ayitou ('24-'28)
aayitou@uic.edu
University of Illinois Chicago

Erick Leite Bastos  ('26-'30)
elbastos@usp.br
University of São Paulo

Carlos Crespo  ('26-'30)
cxc302@case.edu
Case University

Andrés Durantini ('24-'28)
adurant@siue.edu
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

Edith (Phoebe) Glazer ('25-'29)
eglazer@ncsu.edu
North Carolina State University

Dae Joon Kim (’21-’26) Term extended
dae.kim@utrgv.edu
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Jonathan Lovell (’20-’26) Term extended
jflovell@buffalo.edu
University at Buffalo

Girgis Obaid (’21-’27) Term extended
Girgis.Obaid@utdallas.edu
University of Texas at Dallas

José Robinson-Duggon (’21-’27) Term extended
jose.robinson@up.ac.pa
Universidad de Panamá

Eduardo Ruvolo ('26-'30)
Eduardo.Ruvolo@beiersdorf.com
Beiersdorf

Gal Shafirstein ('25-'29)
Gal.Shafirstein@RoswellPark.org
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center

Wenfang Sun ('25-'29)
wsun15@ua.edu
The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa

Andres Thomas ('22-'27) Term extended
athomas@inifta.unlp.edu.ar
National University of La Plata (UNLP)

Cristian Villa ('26-'30)
ccvilla@uniquindio.edu.coccvillaz@gmail.com
Universidad del Quindio

David Welch ('26-'30)
dw2600@cumc.columbia.edu
Columbia University

Xiaojing Yang (’20-’26) Term extended
xiaojing@uic.edu
University of Illinois at Chicago

Youngjae You (’20-’26) Term extended
yjyou@buffalo.edu
University of Buffalo


Associate Councilors:

Chathuna Sri An Bodahandi 
cbodahandi@gradcenter.cuny.edu  
Chathuna.Bodahandi@csi.cuny.edu
The City University of New York

Zeinab Fayyaz
zf082421@ohio.edu
Ohio University 

Akshaya Iyer
AkshayaSreedharan.Iyer@brooklyn.cuny.edu
CUNY Brooklyn

Gurleen Kaur 
gxk7129@mavs.uta.edu
University of Texas, Arlington

Sumiao Pang 
Chair of Associate Councilors
spang4@mgh.harvard.edu
Harvard University

Brian Schnoor 
bschnoor@umd.edu
University of Maryland

Shi, Ge
ge.shi2@uta.edu  
University of Texas at Arlington

Waruna Thotamune
waruna.thotamunekankanamalage@slu.edu
St. Louis University


ASP Advisors:

Mauricio Baptista (Past Councilor)
baptista@iq.usp.br
University of São Paulo

Jean Cadet (Past Editor-in-Chief)
Jean.Cadet@USherbrooke.ca
University of Sherbrooke

Elizabeth (Beth) Gaillard (Past President)
gaillard@niu.edu
Northern Illinois University

Alexander Greer (Past President, Editor-in-Chief)
AGreer@brooklyn.cuny.edu
CUNY Brooklyn

Tayyaba Hasan (Past President)
thasan@mgh.harvard.edu
Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital

Yu-Ying He (Past President)
yyhe@bsd.uchicago.edu
University of Chicago

Huang-Chiao (Joe) Huang (Past Councilor)
hchuang@umd.edu
University of Maryland

John Streicher (Past Treasurer, 2003-2014)
radiantgeodesics@gmail.com
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), retired

 

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