Governance of the foundation is organized according to French law. A nine-member Board of Directors (Conseil d’Administration), led by the President of the foundation, is responsible for overall administration and oversight. A representative of the French Interior Ministry participates in the Board’s activities.
The strategic development of the foundation is guided by a fourteen-member Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC), composed of internationally recognized experts in cardiology, cardiac surgery, and neurovascular medicine from Europe and North America. The SAC is responsible for evaluating the scientific merit of all funding requests made to the foundation, and for monitoring the progress of those research programs ultimately selected for funding. According to the SAC charter, there shall be fourteen members on the SAC, seven of whom should be North-American, and seven European. The Presidency of the SAC is to rotate every three years between North American and European members.
Board of Directors (Conseil d’Administration)
- Martin Landaluce, President
- Dr. David Tancredi, Executive Director & Treasurer
- Jean-Guy de Chalvron, Interior Ministry Representative
- Dr. Annabel Chen-Tournoux
- Maître Maylis Chevallier
- Laurent Deltour
- Neil Jones
- Patrick Laurens-Frings
- Claude Lauzanne, Secretary
- Xavier Péneau
Scientific Advisory Committee
North American members:
- Dr. Mark Anderson (Vice President), Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Dr. Daniel Drucker, Lunenfeld Tanenbaum Research Institute, Toronto, Canada
- Dr. Donna Ferriero, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Dr. Helen Hobbs, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
- Dr. Daniel Rader, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Dr. Dan Roden, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA
- Dr. Joseph Woo, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA
European members:
- Dr. Elisabetta Dejana, University of Milan, Italy
- Dr. Ulrich Dirnagl, Charité-University of Medicine of Berlin, Germany
- Dr. Thomas Eschenhagen, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
- Dr. Christian Hamm, Kerckhoff Heart Center, Bad Nauheim, Germany
- Dr. Göran Hansson (President), Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
- Dr. Christine Mummery, Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands
- Dr. Alain Tedgui, Paris-Cardiovascular Research Center, France