Andrew David Endy was born in 1970. He is a scientist who studies creating living things and has a permanent teaching position as an associate professor of bioengineering at Stanford University in California.
Stanislas Leibler was born in 1957. He is a scientist who studies both biology and physics. He works as a professor in systems biology at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
Michael B. Elowitz is a biologist and professor of Biology, Bioengineering, and Applied Physics at the California Institute of Technology. He is also a researcher at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Adam Arkin was born on August 19, 1956. He is an American actor and director. He is most famous for playing the character Aaron Shutt on the television show Chicago Hope.
Hana El-Samad is a Lebanese-American scientist who is a founding Principal Investigator at Altos Labs and a professor in the fields of biochemistry and biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco. Her work focuses on control theory and how complex biological systems function. Her team has helped advance the fields of systems biology, synthetic biology, and cell engineering.
Alia Bhatt (born March 15, 1993) is a British actress of Indian heritage who mainly works in Hindi movies. She is known for acting in films that show women facing difficult situations. She has won many awards, including a National Film Award and seven Filmfare Awards.
Renee Reijo Pera is a scientist who studies stem cells and serves as the President of the McLaughlin Research Institute in Great Falls, MT. She previously worked as Vice President of Research and Economic Development for more than 8 years at California Polytechnic State University and Montana State University. Her research focuses on human development and disease, including how certain types of cells in the body and reproductive cells form and change.
Sebastiano Tusa was born on August 2, 1952, and passed away on March 10, 2019. He was an Italian archaeologist and politician who worked as a councilor for Cultural Heritage in the Sicilian region of Italy from April 11, 2018, until his death. Tusa also taught paleontology at Suor Orsola Benincasa University of Naples.
Matthew Hebden Porteus is the Sutardja Chuk Professor of Definitive and Curative Medicine at Stanford University. In 2003, while working as a postdoctoral fellow in David Baltimore’s lab at the California Institute of Technology, Porteus showed for the first time that precise changes could be made to genes in human cells using special tools called chimeric nucleases. He graduated with high honors from Harvard University and earned both his MD and PhD degrees at Stanford University.
Dana Carroll is an American scientist who studies molecules in living things and the chemical processes in the body. He works at the University of Utah School of Medicine and has helped make important discoveries in the field of genome editing. He has been part of the National Academy of Sciences since 2017.