
Director of the CRI
Sean J. Morrison is the founding director of Children’s Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern (CRI) and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. He holds the Mary McDermott Cook Chair in Pediatric Genetics and the Kathryne and Gene Bishop Distinguished Chair in Pediatric Research. Dr. Morrison completed a B.Sc. in biology and chemistry at Dalhousie University (1991), a Ph.D. in immunology at Stanford University (1996), and a postdoctoral fellowship in neurobiology at Caltech (1999). From 1999 to 2011, Dr. Morrison was a professor at the University of Michigan, where he directed its Center for Stem Cell Biology.
Among other awards, Dr. Morrison received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2003) and a MERIT Award from the National Institute on Aging (2009). He is an elected member of the US National Academy of Medicine (2018), the US National Academy of Sciences (2020), and the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO; 2023). Dr. Morrison served as the President of the International Society for Stem Cell Research (2015–2016) and has been active in public policy issues surrounding stem cell research, testifying before the U.S. Congress, and serving as a leader in the successful “Proposal 2” campaign to protect and regulate stem cell research in Michigan’s state constitution.
Board of Directors
Voting Directors
Christopher J. Durovich
President and Chief Executive Officer, Children’s Health
David W. Biegler
Robert A. Chereck
Joan Conaway, Ph.D.
Daniel K. Podolsky, M.D.
Michael Serber, MBA
Mark Weinzierl
Non-Voting Directors
Sean Morrison, Ph.D.
W. P. Andrew Lee, M.D.
Jorge Bezerra, M.D.
Scientific Advisory Boards
Internal
Michael Brown, M.D.
Helen H. Hobbs, M.D.
W. P. Andrew Lee, M.D.
Eric N. Olson, Ph.D.
External
Lewis C. Cantley, Ph.D.
Jonathan A. Epstein, M.D.
Gail Mandel, Ph.D.
Stuart H. Orkin, M.D.
Charles L. Sawyers, M.D.
Owen N. Witte, M.D.
Administration

Teresa Hui, MBA, M.S.

Katie Regan, M.A.

Misti Wheat, B.S.

Ashlei Johnson, B.S.
