 Bruce M. Alberts has served as Editor-in-Chief of Science (2008-2013) and as one of President Obama’s first three United States Science Envoys (2009-2011). He was presented the National Medal of Science by President Obama in 2014. Read more >> |
 Nancy C. Andrews, has been Dean of the School of Medicine and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at Duke University since 2007. She is also the Nanaline H. Duke Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Pharmacology & Cancer Biology. Read more >> |
 Prachee Avasthi is an Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. Using a unicellular green alga as a model system, Prachee’s NIH funded laboratory uses chemical biology, biochemistry, genetics and quantitative live cell imaging to uncover novel mechanisms regulating assembly of the ubiquitous cellular antenna, the cilium. Read more >> |
 Jeremy Berg received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Chemistry from Stanford and his Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from Harvard. He then became a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Biophysics at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Read more >> |
 Mary Sue Coleman began her tenure as president of the Association of American Universities on May 31, 2016. Prior to joining the AAU, Coleman was president of the University of Michigan from 2002 to July 2014, where she is now president and professor emerita, and president of the University of Iowa from 1995 to 2002. Long involved with the AAU, Coleman served as chair in 2011-2012. Read more >> |
 Daniel A. Colón-Ramos is an Associate Professor of Cell Biology and Neuroscience at Yale University. Born and raised in Puerto Rico, Daniel completed his A.B. in biology at Harvard University and his PhD in molecular genetics from Duke University School of Medicine. Read more >> |
 Ronald J. Daniels is the 14th president of The Johns Hopkins University — America’s first research university. For 34 years, Hopkins has stood as the largest university recipient of federal research funds in the United States. He also is the chair of the Executive Committee of Johns. Read more >> |
 Kafui Dzirasa is the first African American to complete a Ph.D. in Neurobiology at Duke University. His research interests focus on using neurotechnology to understand how changes in the brain produce neurological and mental illness. Read more >> |
 Rush D. Holt, became the 18th chief executive officer of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and executive publisher of the Science family of journals in February 2015. Read more >> |
 Freeman A. Hrabowski has served as President of UMBC (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) since 1992 and is a consultant on science and math education to national agencies, universities, and school systems. Read more >> |
 Tony Hyman is a Director and Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG) in Dresden, Germany. In 1984 he received his BSc first class in Zoology from the University College in London. Read more >> |
 Judith Kimble is Vilas Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an Investigator in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Read more >> |
 From 2003 to 2014, Story Landis served as the Director of NINDS, overseeing an annual budget of $1.6 billion that supported research by investigators in its intramural program and public and private institutions across the country. Read more >> |
 Erin O’Shea is president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), a top biomedical philanthropy. HHMI is known for driving science forward by investing in scientists, educators and students with the potential to make transformative change. O’Shea is the first woman to lead HHMI. Read more >>. |
 Roderic Ivan Pettigrew serves as the CEO of Engineering Health and executive dean for Engineering Medicine at Texas A&M and Houston Methodist Hospital, and he holds the endowed Robert A. Welch Chair in Medical Science. He was the founding director of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering and built it into the signature NIH institute for emerging medical technologies. Read more >> |
 Jessica Polka is a postdoctoral research fellow in the department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School, mentored by Pamela Silver and co-mentored by Timothy Mitchison. Read more >> |
 Joan Y. Reede is the Dean for Diversity and Community Partnership and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS). Read more >> |
 A native of Canada, Shirley M. Tilghman received her Honors B.Sc. in chemistry from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. Following two years teaching secondary school in Sierra Leone, Tilghman completed her Ph.D. in biochemistry from Temple University with Richard W. Hanson. Read more >> |
 Hannah Valantine recently returned to Stanford as Professor of Medicine having served for six years as the inaugural Chief Officer for Scientific Workforce Diversity at the National Institutes of Health and a Senior Investigator in the Intramural Research Program at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Read more >> |
 Harold Varmus, co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for studies of the genetic basis of cancer, served as Director of the National Cancer Institute from 2010 to 2015, after 10 years as President of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and six years as Director of the NIH. Read more >> |
 As UCSF’s first vice chancellor for science policy and strategy, Keith Yamamoto leads efforts to anticipate the needs of an increasingly dynamic biomedical research endeavor, and to position UCSF optimally, by working within the university as well as influencing and shaping science policy at the state and national levels and beyond. Read more >> |
 Elias Zerhouni, M.D., is a Professor Emeritus in Radiology and Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. Zerhouni was most recently the President, Global Research & Development, and a member of the Executive Committee for Sanofi from January 2011 to July 2018. Read more >> |
Rescuing Biomedical Research Staff
 Christopher L. Pickett is the director of Rescuing Biomedical Research and conducts the day-to-day work of the organization. Read more >> |
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