COMMITTEES WORLDWIDE

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United States Committee


  • Richard AXEL, Nobel Laureate, Co-Director, Kavli Institute for Brain Science, Columbia University Medical Center
  • Michael BROWN, Nobel Laureate, Professor of Molecular Genetics and Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
  • Susan DESMOND-HELLMAN, CEO, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
  • Walter GILBERT, (Nobel Laureate) Carl M. Loeb University Professor Emeritus, Harvard University
  • Laurie GLIMCHER, CEO and President and Professor of Medicine, Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School
  • Joseph GOLDSTEIN, (Nobel Laureate) Professor, Molecular Genetics and Internal Medicine, UT Southwestern Medical Center
  • Paul GREENGARD, (Nobel Laureate) Vincent Astor Professor, Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, The Rockfeller University
  • Eric R. KANDEL, Professor, Physiology & Cellular Biophysics, Biochemistry & MolecularBiophysics, and Psychiatry, Columbia University
  • Robert LANGER, David H. Koch Institute Professor, MIT
  • Cato LAURENCIN, Van Dusen Distinguished Endowed Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering, University of Connecticut
  • Joshua LEDERBERG, (In memoriam) (Nobel Laureate) Professor Emeritus, Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Informatics, The Rockfeller University
  • Richard A. LERNER, Lita Annenberg Hazen Professor of Immunochemistry and Institute Professor, Cell and Molecular Biology, Scripps Research Iinstitute
  • Paul MARKS, President Emeritus and Member, Sloan Kettering Institute
  • Rebecca RICHARDS-KORTUM, Malcolm Gillis University Professor; Director, Rice 360: Institute for Global Health;, Rice University
  • Michael ROSENBLATT, Chief Medical Officer, Flagship Pioneering
  • Bengt SAMUELSSON, (Nobel Laureate) Former President and Former Chairman, Karolinska institute and Nobel Foundation
  • Marc TESSIER-LAVIGNE, President, Stanford University
  • Roy VAGELOS, Retired Chairman and CEO; Chairman, Merck & Co., Inc; Regeneron
  • Jan T. VILCEK, Professor, Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine
  • Gerald WEISSMANN, Professor Emeritus and Research Professor of Medicine, Rheumatology, New York University School of Medicine
  • Elie WIESEL, (In memoriam) (Nobel Laureate) University Professor and Professor of Philosophy and Religion, Boston University