The Gallo Center is evaluated annually by a Scientific Advisory Board of international leaders in biomedical research. All are members of the National Academy of Sciences. The SAB is responsible for assessing the progress of the research in relation to the overall goals of the Center, making recommendations for future research directions, and providing a comprehensive review of the activities of the Center to the President of the Board of Directors.

Current board members are:

Stanley Prusiner, MD, Chairman, Director, Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases, and Professor of Neurology and Biochemistry, University of California, San Francisco (Nobel Laureate);

Guoping Feng, PhD, McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, and faculty member in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT;

Eric R. Kandel, MD, University Professor of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, and Psychiatry, Columbia University, College of Physicians & Surgeons, Psychiatric Institute (Nobel Laureate);

George F. Koob, PhD, Professor and Chair of the Committee on the Neurobiology of Addictive Disorders at The Scripps Research Institute, Adjunct Professor in the Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry, and Adjunct Professor in the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at UC San Diego;

Richard P. Lifton, MD, PhD, Sterling Professor of Genetics, Professor of Medicine, and Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University School of Medicine;