Ken Dill is the Director of the Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology at Stony Brook University and the Louis and Beatrice Laufer Professor of Physics and Chemistry. He received SB and SM degrees from MIT in Mechanical Engineering in 1971, a PhD in Biology with BH Zimm at the University of California, San […]
Anil K. Rustgi, MD, is the Interim Executive Vice President and Dean of the Faculties of Health Sciences and Medicine at Columbia University and the Director of the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Dr. Rustgi is a world-renowned physician-scientist and leader in the field of gastrointestinal cancers, spanning […]
Kevin J. Tracey is President and CEO of The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, and Professor of Molecular Medicine and Neurosurgery at the Zucker School of Medicine. He is a leader in the study of the molecular basis of inflammation. He and his colleagues identified the neural mechanism for controlling the immunological responses to infection […]
Dr. Gordon Tomaselli became dean at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and executive vice president and chief academic officer at Montefiore Medicine in July 2018. He is an expert in the fields of sudden cardiac death and arrhythmias. Dr. Tomaselli’s research focuses on ion channel structure, function and remodeling. His lab has been continuously funded […]
Bruce Stillman, PhD, is President and CEO of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL). A native of Australia, he graduated with a BSc. degree with first class honors at The University of Sydney and a PhD at the John Curtin School of Medical Research at the Australian National University. He moved to CSHL as a Postdoctoral […]
James H. Simons, PhD, is Chairman of the Simons Foundation, an organization dedicated to advancing the frontiers of research in mathematics and the basic sciences. The Foundation’s philanthropic activities include a major research initiative on the causes of autism, and the establishment of an institute for research in mathematics and theoretical physics. The Foundation is […]
