- Norman Borlaug
Norman Ernest Borlaug (born March 25 1914) is an American agricultural scientist, humanitarian, Nobel laureate, and has been called the father of the Green Revolution. Borlaug is a recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal. Borlaug received his Ph.D. in plant pathology and genetics from the University of Minnesota in 1942. He took up an agricultural research position in Mexico, where he developed semi-dwarf high-yield, disease-resistant wheat varieties.
- Hwang Woo-Suk
Hwang Woo-Suk (황우석) is a South Korean biomedical scientist. He was a professor of theriogenology and biotechnology at Seoul National University (dismissed on March 20 2006) who rose to fame after claiming a series of remarkable breakthroughs in the field of stem cell research. Until November 2005, he was considered one of the pioneering experts in the field of stem cell research, …
- Ignacio Chapela
Ignacio Chapela is an microbial ecologist and mycologist at the University of California, Berkeley, and an outspoken critic of the University's ties to the biotechnology industry. He is also notable for authorship of a controversial Nature paper about the flow of transgenes in to wild Mexican maize. In 2005, studies published in PNAS by Mexican scientists do not support Chapela's findings. Chapela is also notable for his work with natural resources and indigenous rights.
- Anthony Atala
Anthony Atala, M.D., is the Director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, and Chair of the Department of Urology at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in the state of North Carolina in the United States. Regenerative medicine is "a practice that aims to refurbish diseased or damaged tissue using the body's own healthy cells." Atala was born in Peru in 1958, grew up in Boca Raton, Florida, and comes from a large family..
- Ingo Potrykus
Ingo Potrykus - retired since April 1999 - was full Professor of Plant Sciences, specifically of Biotechnology of Plants, at the Institute of Plant Sciences of the ETH Zurich since June 1, 1987. His research group applied gene-technology to contribute to food security in developing countries. He retired April 1, 1999. Prof. Potrykus was born on December 5, 1933 in Hirschberg/Schlesien, Germany.
- Herbert Boyer
Herbert W. Boyer (b. 1936) is a recipient of the 1990 National Medal of Science, and co-recipient of the 1996 Lemelson-MIT Prize and a co-founder of Genentech. Boyer received his bachelor's degree in biology and chemistry from Saint Vincent College in the Pittsburgh suburb of Latrobe, Pennsylvania in 1958. He married his wife Grace the following year. He received his PhD at the University of Pittsburgh in 1963 and participated as an activist in the civil rights movement.
- Florence Wambugu
Florence Muringi Wambugu(born August 23, 1953) is a plant pathologist and virologist. She is known for her advocacy of using biotechnology to increase food production in Africa. She received her Bachelor of Science in botany from the University of Nairobi, her Master's in pathology from North Dakota State University, and her PhD from the University of Bath.
- Drew Endy
Drew Endy is a synthetic biologist. He was a junior fellow for 3 years and later an assistant professor in the Department of Biological Engineering at MIT. As of September 2008, he continued his research and teaching as an assistant professor in the Department of Bioengineering at Stanford University.
- Lori Andrews
Lori Andrews is a distinguished professor of law at Chicago-Kent College of Law; Director of Illinois Institute of Technology's Institute for Science, Law and Technology; and in Spring 2002, she was a visiting professor at Princeton University. She received her B.A. summa cum laude from Yale College and her J.D. from Yale Law School.
- James C. Greenwood
James Charles (Jim) Greenwood (born May 4, 1951) represented Pennsylvania's Eighth Congressional District for six terms in the United States House of Representatives as a Republican. Greenwood was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and grew up in Holland, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Dickinson College. After earning his degree in 1973, Greenwood worked for four years as an aid to state representative John Renninger.
- Peter Schultz
Peter G. Schultz is currently the Scripps Professor of Chemistry at The Scripps Research Institute and Director of the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation (GNF). Schultz’s work spans the interface of chemistry, biology and materials science, and includes: the discovery of catalytic antibodies and their use to study fundamental mechanisms of biological catalysis and the evolution of binding and catalytic function, …
- Ernesto Bertarelli
Ernesto Bertarelli (born 22 September 1965) is a Swiss / Italian businessman and yachtsman. Born in Rome, Bertarelli was CEO and Deputy Chairman of Serono, a Swiss biotechnology company he inherited from his father. Serono was sold to Merck KGaA of Germany in September 2006 for US$13.3 billion, forming a new company Merck-Serono. His personal wealth was estimated by Forbes' List of billionaires (2007) at US$8.8 billion.
- Christopher Evans
Sir Christopher Thomas Evans, OBE, PhD, is a biotechnology entrepreneur in the United Kingdom. Originally from Port Talbot, Wales, he was educated at Imperial College London and the University of Hull, then obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, where he held a research fellowship. He was the founder of Chiroscience (now merged with Celltech), Celsis, Enzymatix, and a number of other companies.
- Robert S. Langer
Robert S. Langer (born August 29, 1948 in Albany, New York) is an Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was formerly the Germeshausen Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering and maintains activity in the department of chemical engineering and the department of biological engineering at MIT. His also a faculty member of the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology.
- Susan Greenfield
Susan Greenfield read for a first degree at St Hilda's College, Oxford and subsequently worked for a DPhil in the University Department of Pharmacology. She subsequently held post-doctoral fellowships in the Department of Physiology, Oxford, the College de France, Paris and NYU Medical Center, New York, until being appointed in 1985 as University Lecturer in Synaptic Pharmacology and Fellow and Tutor in Medicine, Lincoln College.
- Thomas Okarma
Dr. Thomas Okarma is the current CEO of Geron Corporation, a biotechnology company.
- Eugene Koonin
Eugene V. Koonin (PhD) is an expert in the field of biotechnology. Credentials: Senior Investigator, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA MS (1978) and PhD (1983) in Molecular Biology from Department of Biology, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia. Research in Computational Biology in Institute of Poliomyelitis and Institute of Microbiology, Moscow (Russia) in 1985-1991.
- David Ewing Duncan
David Ewing Duncan (b. in 1958) is an American journalist, author and broadcaster with a special emphasis in technology, particularly biotechnology. He lives in San Francisco.
- David Castle
David Castle (born 1967 in Calgary, Alberta) is a Canadian philosopher and bioethicist. He is a Canada Research Chair in Science and Society at the University of Ottawa. He received his B.Sc. and B.A. from the University of Alberta, M.A. from McMaster University, and Ph.D. from the University of Guelph, supervised by Michael Ruse. His research focuses on social issues involved in biotechnology, particularly with regard to genetically modified foods.
- Abby Lippman
Abby Lippman got her BA from Cornell University (Ithaca NY) and her PhD from McGill University (Montreal, Quebec). She is currently Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, with cross appointments in Family Medicine and Social Studies of Medicine, all at McGill. She is also President of the Canadian Women's Health Network, a role that allows her to combine her academic and activist passions.
- Alejandro Zaffaroni
Alejandro Zaffaroni is the founder of a number of companies, including ALZA, Affymax, Affymetrix, Alexza, DNAX, Maxygen and Symyx. He is widely considered a pioneer in drug delivery and the field of biotechnology and has had a significant impact on the development of Silicon Valley through the many companies built by him and those he mentored.
- Dale Carrico
Dale Carrico Ph.D. (born August 24, 1965) is a lecturer in the Department of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of the visiting faculty at the San Francisco Art Institute. He is also the Human Rights Fellow at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. He is currently adapting his dissertation into a book, "Pancryptics: Technological Transformations of the Subject of Privacy".
- Bartha Knoppers
Bartha Maria Knoppers is a Canadian lawyer and an expert on the ethical aspects of genetics, genomics and biotechnology. Born in Hilversum, Netherlands, she received a Bachelor of Arts from McMaster University, a Diploma of Legal Studies from Cambridge University, a master's degree in comparative literature from the University of Alberta in 1972, a law degree from McGill University in 1981, and a Doctorate of Laws from the University of Paris I: Panthéon-Sorbonne in 1985.
- Mary-Dell Chilton
Mary-Dell Chilton is a key founder of modern plant biotechnology. She was the first (1977) to demonstrate the presence of a fragment of "Agrobacterium" Ti plasmid DNA in the nuclear DNA of crown gall tissue. Her research on "Agrobacterium" also showed that the genes responsible for causing disease could be removed from the bacterium without adversely affecting its ability to insert its own DNA into plant cells and modify the plants genome. Dr.
- Ozires Silva
Ozires Silva, is the founder of Embraer and a famous Brazilian entrepreneur. He was born in Bauru, São Paulo state. In 1952, Ozires graduated on Escola de Aeronáutica do Campo dos Afonsos (Rio de Janeiro) as a military pilot. He then served the Brazilian Air Force for 4 years in the Amazon rainforest region. In 1962, Ozires graduated on Aeronautics Technological Institute (ITA) as an aeronautical engineer.
- Hector Deluca
Hector F. DeLuca is a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor and former chairman of the university's biochemistry department. DeLuca is a foremost expert in Vitamin D research. At least eight pharmaceutical drugs are derived from his research in Vitamin D. DeLuca has more than 1,500 patents to his name, with hundreds more pending. Licensing of his technology, through the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, …
- Charles Nesson
Charles Nesson is William F. Weld Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. A member of the Law School's faculty since 1966, Charles founded and directs the Berkman Center for Internet & Society , which explores the frontiers of intellectual property law in the digital age. His blog is eon .
- Garo H. Armen
Garo H. Armen is chairman and chief executive officer of Antigenics Inc., the biotechnology company he cofounded with Pramod Srivastava in 1994. From mid-2002 through 2004, he was chairman of the board of directors for the biopharmaceutical company Elan Corporation plc. Dr. Armen also serves on the board of directors of Color Kinetics Inc., a company that designs, markets and licenses intelligent solid-state lighting systems. Dr.
- Sean Williams
Sean Llewellyn Williams (born 1967) is a New York Times best selling science fiction author who lives in Adelaide, Australia. He is the author of over sixty published short stories and eighteen novels, including the Books of the Change and (with Shane Dix) the bestselling Evergence and Orphans trilogies. He has co-written three books in the Star Wars: New Jedi Order series and is a multiple recipient of both the Ditmar & Aurealis Award.
- Bryan Bergeron
Bryan Bergeron, MD, is an author of numerous books in the fields of medicine, computers, biotechnology, and business. He teaches in the HST Division of Harvard Medical School and MIT and is president of Archetype Technologies, Inc.
- Michael D. Mehta
Michael D. Mehta specializes in science, technology and society with a focus on health and environmental risk issues. He is Professor of Sociology at the University of Saskatchewan and Chair of the Sociology of Biotechnology Program. He is one of the leading academics in Canada in the field of risk. Mehta arrived in Saskatoon during the summer of 2000 after spending five years at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario.
- Patricia Piccinini
Patricia Piccinini is an Australian artist. She was born in 1965 in Freetown, Sierra Leone and emigrated to Australia in 1972 with her family. She studied economic history before enrolling at art school in Melbourne. Her mixed media works include the series "Truck Babies", and the installation "We are Family" which was chosen to represent Australia at the 2003 Venice Biennale. Piccinini works with a wide range of media, including painting, sculpture, video, …
- Paul J. McAuley
Paul McAuley (born April 23, 1955), a British botanist, award-winning author, and self-described science junkie. By training a biologist, UK science fiction author McAuley writes mostly hard science fiction, dealing with themes such as biotechnology, alternate history/alternate reality, and space travel. McAuley started out writing far-future space opera with "Four Hundred Billion Stars", its sequel "Eternal Light", …
- David H. Murdock
David Howard Murdock (1924-), with his net worth of 4.2 billion US Dollars, is the 204th richest person in the world. In 1985 he took over the nearly bankrupt Hawaiian firm Castle & Cooke, which owned pineapple producer Dole Food Company. He developed Castle & Cooke's real estate portfolio into residential and commercial properties, and turned Dole into the world's largest producer of fruits and vegetables.
- Albert Sacco
Albert Sacco, Jr. (born May 3, 1949) is an American astronaut and chemical engineer who flew as the Payload Specialist on the Space Shuttle Columbia on shuttle mission STS-73 in 1995. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Sacco completed a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Northeastern University in Boston in 1973, and then a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1977.
- Pascal Brandys
Pascal Brandys is a French engineer and entrepreneur. He is a graduate of the École Polytechnique and he received his M.S. in Economic Systems from Stanford University in 1982. He began his career in venture capital first in Tokyo and then in London, where he contributed to the first wave of biotechnology companies in Europe. He was the former president and founder of Genset Corporation, …
- Jan Vilcek
Jan T. Vilcek M.D., Ph.D. is a professor in the Department of Microbiology at the NYU School of Medicine. Dr. Vilcek, a native of Bratislava, Slovakia, received his M.D. degree from Comenius University Medical School, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia in 1957; and his Ph.D. in Virology from the Institute of Virology, Czechoslovak Academy of Science, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia 1962. In 1965, he joined the faculty of NYU School of Medicine as an Assistant Professor of Microbiology, …
- Boyd Haley
Boyd Haley earned his doctorate in chemistry/biochemistry from Washington State University and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Yale University Medical Center. He has been at the University of Kentucky with joint appointments in these disciplines since 1985, as well as at the College of Pharmacy. He has served as Chairman and professor of the Department of Chemistry since 1997. He is a permanent member of the National Institutes of Health Biomedical Science study section.
- Alan Walton
Alan Walton (born 1936) is an American businessman and member of 20 Boards of Directors and presently is Chairman of Oxford Bioscience Corporation, and two other boards. Walton was instrumental in the development and funding of the Human Genome Project. Through his association with Oxford Bioscience, Walton manages over $850 million in a portfolio that includes 80 companies.
- Rainer Kattel
Rainer Kattel (born 20 March 1974) is an Estonian academic and science administrator; he is an expert on innovation as well as political philosophy. Kattel was born in Tartu, Estonia, and attended the University of Tartu and, for several years, the University of Marburg, Germany, on a DAAD scholarship. He obtained a BA in a specially-designed major, Political Philosophy, an MA in Classics, and a Ph.D. in Public Administration, all with the highest distinction, …