Craig Cameron Mello (born October 18 1960 in New Haven, Connecticut) is one of the laureates of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, along with Andrew Z. Fire, for the discovery of RNA interference. This research was conducted at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and published in 1998, where Mello is professor of Molecular Medicine.

Bonnie L. Bassler is a professor of molecular biology at Princeton University. She made key insights into the mechanism by which bacteria communicate, known as quorum sensing. In 2002 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. Dr. Bassler was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2006.

Richard Axel, M.D. (born July 2, 1946, New York City) is an American scientist whose work on the olfactory system won him and Linda B. Buck, a former post-doctoral scientist in his research group, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2004. In their landmark paper published in 1991, Buck and Axel cloned olfactory receptors, showing that they belong to the family of G protein coupled receptors.

Linda B. Buck, Ph.D., (born January 29, 1947) is an American biologist best known for her work on the olfactory system. She and Richard Axel won the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work on olfactory receptors. In their landmark paper published in 1991, Buck and Axel cloned olfactory receptors, showing that they belong to the family of G protein-coupled receptors.

Elaine Fuchs is a cell biologist, famous for her work on the biology and molecular mechanisms of mammalian skin and skin diseases, and has led the modernization of dermatology. Fuchs also pioneered reverse genetics approaches, which assess protein function first and then assesses its role in development and disease. In particular, Fuchs researches skin stem cells, and their production of hair and skin.

Roderick MacKinnon (born 19 February 1956 in Burlington, Massachusetts) is a professor of Molecular Neurobiology and Biophysics at Rockefeller University who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Peter Agre in 2003 for his work on the structure and operation of ion channels.

Bert Vogelstein (born 1949) is a noted cancer researcher at The Johns Hopkins University. His first degree was in mathematics graduating summa cum laude in 1970 from the University of Pennsylvania. His interest was more in medicine and he received his M.D. from The Johns Hopkins University four years later. He was subsequently a resident in pediatrics at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. He has received the Gairdner Foundation International Award, Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize, …

David Haussler is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. He is also Professor of Biomolecular Engineering and Director of the Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz; scientific co-director of the California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research; and a consulting professor at Stanford University School of Medicine and UC San Francisco Biopharmaceutical Sciences Department.

Kevin P. Campbell, Ph.D. is an Investigator for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, UI Foundation Distinguished Professor, the Roy J. Carver Chair of Physiology and Biophysics, and head of the department; and professor of neurology and internal medicine at the University of Iowa.

Peter Walter is a German-American molecular biologist and biochemist. He earned a B.S. degree in chemistry from the Free University of Berlin, an M.S. degree in organic chemistry from Vanderbilt University, and a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the Rockefeller University. He is currently Professor and Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).

Patrick O. Brown M.D., Ph.D. is a Professor of biochemistry at Stanford University. He got his B.S., M.D. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. His research uses DNA microarrays to study the gene expression patterns associated with especially cancer. He became an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in 1988, and joined the United States National Academy of Sciences in 2002.

Paul Ahlquist Ph.D. is a Professor of Molecular Virology and Oncology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He earned his B.S. in physics from Iowa State University and his Ph.D. in biophysics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research is focused on the gene expression of RNA vira. He was admitted to the National Academy of Science in 1993 and has been a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator since 1997.

Carlos José Bustamante is an American scientist. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Dr. H. Robert Horvitz , Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has joined the Scientific Advisory Board of GenPath Pharmaceuticals Inc., a company focusing on discovering and developing drugs to treat cancer and other diseases, GenPath announced on May 28.

James Andrew McCammon is an American physical chemist known for his application of principles and methods from theoretical and computational chemistry to biological systems. A professor at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), McCammon's research focuses on the theoretical aspects of biomolecular and cellular activity. Dr. McCammon co-authored the "Dynamics of Proteins and Nucleic Acids" (Cambridge University Press, 1987), …

Dr. Eva Nogales (b. Madrid, Spain) is a biophysicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She is a Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of California, Berkeley and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. Eva Nogales works on structural and functional characterization of macromolecular complexes.

Pamela J. Bjorkman is the Max Delbrück Professor of Biology at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Adjunct Professor of biochemistry at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and an investigator for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). Her research centers on the study of the three dimensional structures of proteins related to Class I MHC, or Major Histocompatibility Complex, proteins.

Paul L. Modrich is the James B. Duke Professor of Biochemistry at Duke University and Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1973. He is known for his research on DNA mismatch repair.

Bruce Lahn (1969-) is a geneticist at the University of Chicago specializing in evolutionary genetics, especially the genetic basis that underlies the dramatic evolutionary changes of the human brain. Lahn's other research interests include stem cell biology and neurogenetics. His research on the microcephalin gene led to a hypothesis that Neanderthals may have contributed to the recent development of the human brian.

Joan Argetsinger Steitz is a molecular biologist at Yale University, famed for her discoveries involving RNA, including ground-breaking insights such as that ribosomes interact with mRNA by complementary base pairing and that introns are spliced by snRNPs, small nuclear ribonucleoproteins which occur in eukaryotes (such as yeasts and humans).

Philip A. Beachy, Ph.D., is a professor of developmental biology at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. He received his Ph.D. in biochemistry from Stanford University, and has been an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute since 1988. His research focuses on understanding the molecular mechanisms behind the growth of multicellular embryos, especially the role of the signalling protein Hedgehog.

Terrence Joseph Sejnowski is an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and is the Francis Crick Professor at The Salk Institute for Biological Studies where he directs the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory. He is also Professor of Biological Sciences and Adjunct Professor in the Departments of Neurosciences, Psychology, Cognitive Science, and Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego, …

Lawrence S.B. Goldstein is Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at University of California, San Diego and Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He receives grant funding from the NIH, the Johns Hopkins ALS Center, the HighQ Foundation, and the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Dr. Goldstein received his B.A. degree in biology and genetics from UCSD in 1976 and his Ph.D. degree in genetics from the University of Washington, …

Sean B. Carroll is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin. He studies the evolution of cis-regulation in the context of biological development, using "Drosophila" as a model system. He is Professor of Molecular Biology, Genetics, and Medical Genetics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Susan R. Wessler, Ph.D. (1953-) is an American plant molecular biologist and geneticist. She is on the faculty of the University of Georgia (UGA). Wessler was born in New York City. She graduated from the Bronx High School of Science. She received her bachelor's degree in 1974 in Biology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Cornell University in 1980.

Dr. Carolyn Ruth Bertozzi is an award-winning chemist. She holds positions as Professor of Chemistry and Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley; Professor of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology at the University of California, San Francisco; is an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute; and Director of the Molecular Foundry, a nanoscience research center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Dr. Pascale Cossart is an award-winning bacteriologist at the Pasteur Institute of Paris, and the foremost authority on "Listeria monocytogenes", a deadly and common food-borne pathogen responsible for encephalitis, meningitis, bacteremia, gastroenteritis, and other diseases. Cossart's studies of the infectious agent "Listeria monocytogenes" have helped develop a complete picture of this organism and its approaches, …

Sharon R. Long, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University. She is Andersen Dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences and holds the Steere-Pfizer chair in Biological Sciences at Stanford. She studied at Harvey Mudd College, Caltech (B.S.) and Yale (Ph.D.) in biochemistry and genetics, and began her research on plants and symbiosis while a postdoc at Harvard. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, …

Dr. Gideon Dreyfuss is currently the Isaac Norris Professor Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and a principal investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Dr. Dreyfuss's research is concentrated on Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA)/neurogeneration, the Survival of Motor Neurons (SMN) complex, RNA-binding proteins, Ribonucleoproteins (RNP), and high throughput screening.

David S. Eisenberg (born 15 March 1939) is an American biochemist noted for his seminal contributions to structural and computational molecular biology. A professor at the University of California, Los Angeles since the early 1970s and director of the UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics & Proteomics since the early 1990s, Eisenberg's current experimental work focuses on the structural biology of amyloidogenic proteins, …

Carla J. Shatz, Ph.D., is an American neurobiologist and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Institute of Medicine. Carla Shatz graduated from Radcliffe College in 1969 with a B.A. in chemistry. She received an M.Phil. in Physiology from the University College London in 1971. In 1976, she received a Ph.D. in neurobiology from Harvard Medical School, …

Carla J. Shatz , Ph.D. Director, BioX James H. Clark Center Stanford University Dr. Carla Shatz graduated from Radcliffe College in 1969 with a B.A. in Chemistry. She was honored with a Marshall Scholarship to study at University College London, where she received an M.Phil. in Physiology in 1971. In 1976, she received a Ph.D. in Neurobiology from Harvard Medical School, where she studied with the Nobel Laureates David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel .