Ronald C. Kessler is an American professor at Harvard Medical School. His research focuses on the precision treatment of mental illness to determine the appropriate intervention for specific patients. He ranks among the most highly cited researchers in the world, with an h-index of 340 as of June 2024.
Shizuo Akira is a professor at the Department of Host Defense, Osaka University, Japan. He has made ground-breaking discoveries in the field of immunology, most significantly in the area of innate host defense mechanisms.
Avery August is a Belizean-born American scientist who is currently a professor of immunology and vice provost at Cornell University.
Scott D. Emr is an American cell biologist and the founding and current Director of the Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology at Cornell University, where he is also a Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of 1956 Professor at the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics.
Lewis C. Cantley is an American cell biologist and biochemist who has made significant advances to the understanding of cancer metabolism. Among his most notable contributions are the discovery and study of the enzyme PI-3-kinase, now known to be important to understanding cancer and diabetes mellitus. He is currently Meyer Director and Professor of Cancer Biology at the Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City. He was formerly a professor in the Departments of Systems Biology and Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and the Director of Cancer Research at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, in Boston, Massachusetts. In 2016, he was elected Chairman of the Board for the Hope Funds for Cancer Research.
Joan Massagué, is a Spanish biologist and the current director of the Sloan Kettering Institute at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He is also an internationally recognized leader in the study of both cancer metastasis and growth factors that regulate cell behavior, as well as a professor at the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences.
Laurie Hollis Glimcher is an American physician-scientist and former President and CEO of Dana–Farber Cancer Institute. She was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2019. Glimcher has been at the center of controversies related to animal rights activists, excessive corporate payments, and research misconduct. A 2021 investigation by the Boston Globe Spotlight team highlighted Glimcher’s activities on multiple corporate boards, including Bristol Myers Squibb, GlaxoSmithKline, and Analog Devices. After this investigation, Glimcher continued to receive compensation on for-profit boards, while doubling her salary to $4 million per year at Dana-Farber. In October 2024, Glimcher stepped down as President and CEO of Dana-Farber.
Bernice Grafstein Shanet is a Canadian neurophysiologist, a professor at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York and a noted specialist in neuroregeneration research. Shanet is a Professor of Physiology and Biophysics at Weill Cornell Medical College, the holder of the Vincent and Brooke Astor Distinguished Professorship in Neuroscience at Weill Cornell Medical College, the Professor of Neuroscience for the Brain and Mind Research Institute at Weill Cornell Medical College and the first woman ever to serve as president of the American Society for Neuroscience. Shanet is famous for her studies of the transport of materials down the axon nerves and her thesis work on the mechanism of cortical spreading depression, which became a classic in its field and is acknowledged even today.
Guido Kroemer is a cell biologist who has made contributions to the understanding of the role of mitochondria in cell death. He is a member of multiple scientific academies in Europe and is one of the most highly cited authors in cell biology.
Lorenzo Galluzzi is an Italian and French cell biologist best known for his experimental and conceptual contributions to the fields of cell death, autophagy, tumor metabolism and tumor immunology.
Agata Smogorzewska is a Polish-born scientist. She is an associate professor at Rockefeller University, heading the Laboratory of Genome Maintenance. Her work primarily focuses on DNA interstrand crosslink repair and the diseases resulting from deficiencies in this repair pathway, including Fanconi anemia and karyomegalic interstitial nephritis.
Kendall A. Smith is an American medical scientist best known for his work on interleukins, the regulatory molecules of the immune system, which has led to many of the new present-day therapies for immunological disorders, transplant rejection, infectious diseases and cancer. Smith is a Professor Emeritus of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine.
Gerrit E. W. Bauer is a physicist and Professor and Principal Investigator at Tohoku University. He is one of the top highly-cited researchers (h>100) according to webometrics.
Harold J. Vinegar is a researcher and Professor of Petroleum Geoscience at Ben-Gurion University. He is also President of Vinegar Technologies, LLC. Vinegar is one of the top highly-cited researchers (h>100) according to webometrics.
Mohsen Naghavi is an Iranian-American researcher and Professor of Health Metrics Sciences at the University of Washington. He is one of the top highly cited researchers (h>100) according to webometrics.
Marc G. Caron was a Canadian-born American researcher and James B. Duke Professor of Cell Biology at Duke University. He was one of the top highly cited researchers (h>100) according to webometrics.
Russel J. Reiter is an American researcher and Professor of Cell Systems and Anatomy at the University of Texas Health Science Center. He is one of the top highly cited researchers (h>100) according to webometrics.
Steven R. Cummings is an American epidemiologist and Emeritus Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California San Francisco. He is one of the top highly cited researchers (h>100) according to webometrics.
Keith Johnson is an American neurologist and radiologist. He is Professor of Radiology and Neurology at the Harvard Medical School, and Associate Radiologist and Director of Molecular Neuroimaging at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He also is co-director of the Neuroimaging Program of the Massachusetts Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center.
Minkui Luo is a biochemist and professor of biochemistry at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. His research interests include chemical biology and the study of posttranslational modifications in epigenetic signaling, with an emphasis on protein methyltransferases.
