Denotes Nobel Prize Winners • Updated September 2011
Shizuo Akira
Professor, Department of Host Defense, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
Victor R. Ambros
Professor, Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA USA
Sir Michael J. Berridge, FRS
Deputy Scientific Director and Head, Molecular Signaling, The Babraham Institute
Babraham, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Honorary Professor of Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Bruce A. Beutler(2011)
Professor and Chairman, Department of Genetics, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA USA
J. Michael Bishop(1989)
Professor, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA, USA
Elizabeth H. Blackburn(2009)
Morris Herztein Professor of Biology and Physiology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
Sydney Brenner(2002)
The Molecular Sciences Institute, Berkeley, CA, USA
Pierre Chambon
Former Director,
Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology, Universität Louis
Pasteur, Strasbourg, France; and Professor, College de France, Paris, France.
Robert L. Coffman
Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer, Dynavax Technologies, Berkeley, CA USA
Douglas L. Coleman
Senior Staff Scientist Emeritus, Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME USA
Francis S. Collins
Director, National Human Genome Research Institute, Senior Investigator, Genome Technology Branch, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.
Rory Collins
Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology and Co-Director of the Clinical Trial Service Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Brian J. Druker
JELD-WEN Chair of Leukemia Research, and Director, OHSU Knight Cancer Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland OR USA
Jeffrey M. Friedman
Marilyn M. Simpson Professor, Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Rockefeller University, New York, NY USA, and Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Eric R. Kandel(2000)
Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Alfred G. Knudson Jr.
Senior Advisor to the President and Fox Distinguished Scientist, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pa.
Edwin G. Krebs(1992)
University of Washington professor emeritus
Eric S. Lander
Professor of Biology, MIT, Cambridge, Mass., Director of the Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research, Whitehead Institute, Cambridge, Mass.
Robert S. Langer
David H. Koch Institute Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA USA
Nicholas B. Lydon
Founder, Granite Biopharma, LLC, Jackson Hole, WY USA; Co-founder and Director, AnaptysBio, San Diego, CA USA; and Co-founder and Director, Blueprint Medicines, Cambridge, MA USA
†Ernest A. McCulloch
Senior Scientist, Ontario Cancer Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Jacques F. A. P. Miller
Emeritus Professor, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research and the University of Melbourne, Parkville, Melbourne, Australia
Luc Montagnier(2008)
Professor at the Institut Pasteur in Paris
Timothy R. Mosmann
Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, and Michael and Angela Pichichero Director in the David H. Smith Center for Vaccine Biology and Immunology, University of Rochester Medical Center, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY USA
†Yasutomi Nishizuka
President Emeritus of Kobe University, Former Professor and Chairman, Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan
Seiji Ogawa Director, formerly with Ogawa Laboratories for Brain Function Research, Hamano Life Science Research Foundation, Tokyo, Japan (closed in March 2008)
Sir Richard Peto
FRS, Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology and Co-Director of the Clinical Trial Service Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Gary Ruvkun
Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, and Massachusetts General Hospital, both Boston, MA USA
Charles L. Sawyers
Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Chair in Human Oncology and Pathogenesis, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY USA. Also, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
†Ralph M. Steinman(2011)
Henry G. Kunkel Professor and Senior Physician, Laboratory of Cellular Physiology and Immunology, Rockefeller University, New York, NY USA
James E. Till
Senior Scientist, Ontario Cancer Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Joseph P. Vacanti
John Homans Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School; Surgeon-in-Chief and Chief of the Department of Pediatric Surgery and Director of the Laboratory for Tissue Engineering and Organ Fabrication, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA USA
Harold E. Varmus(1989)
Professor, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA, USA
J. Craig Venter
President, The Center for Advancement of Genomics, Institute for Biological Energy Alternatives, and Venter Science Foundation, Rockville, Md
Bert Vogelstein
Professor of Oncology and Pathology with a Joint Appointment in Molecular Biology and Genetics, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
Robert A. Weinberg
Daniel K. Ludwig and American Cancer Society Professor for Cancer Research
MIT, Cambridge, Mass., Member, Whitehead Institute, Cambridge, Mass.
Shinya Yamanaka
Director, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application and Professor, Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS), Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan; Senior Investigator, Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, San Francisco, CA USA; and Professor of Anatomy, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA USA