George Emil Palade was a Romanian-American cell biologist. Described as "the most influential cell biologist ever",in 1974 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine along with Albert Claude and Christian de Duve. The prize was granted for his innovations in electron microscopy and cell fractionation which together laid the foundations of modern molecular cell biology,the most notable discovery being the ribosomes of the endoplasmic reticulum –which he first described in 1955.
Randy Wayne Schekman is an American cell biologist at the University of California,Berkeley,former editor-in-chief of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and former editor of Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology. In 2011,he was announced as the editor of eLife,a new high-profile open-access journal published by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute,the Max Planck Society and the Wellcome Trust launching in 2012. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1992. Schekman shared the 2013 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with James Rothman and Thomas C. Südhof for their ground-breaking work on cell membrane vesicle trafficking.
Ira Mellman is an American cell biologist who discovered endosomes. He serves as Vice President of Research Oncology at Genentech in South San Francisco,California.
Peter Walter is a German-American molecular biologist and biochemist. He is currently the Director of the Bay Area Institute of Science at Altos Labs and an emeritus professor at the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics of the University of California,San Francisco (UCSF). He was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator until 2022.
The American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) is a professional society that was founded in 1960.
James Edwin Darnell Jr. is an American biologist who made significant contributions to RNA processing and cytokine signaling and is author of the cell biology textbook Molecular Cell Biology.
Vamsi K. Mootha is an Indian-born American physician-scientist and computational biologist. He is an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute,Professor of Systems Biology and Medicine at Harvard Medical School,Investigator in the Department of Molecular Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is also an Institute Member of the Broad Institute.
Arthur L. Horwich is an American biologist and Sterling Professor of Genetics and Pediatrics at the Yale School of Medicine. Horwich has also been a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator since 1990. His research into protein folding uncovered the action of chaperonins,protein complexes that assist the folding of other proteins;Horwich first published this work in 1989.
Franz-Ulrich Hartl is a German biochemist and the current Executive Director of the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry. He is known for his pioneering work in chaperone-mediated protein folding.
Ewald Rudolf Weibel HonFRMS was a Swiss anatomist and physiologist and former director of the Institute of Anatomy at the University of Bern. He was one of the first scientists to describe the endothelial organelles Weibel–Palade bodies,which are named after him and his Romanian-American colleague George Emil Palade. He was known for his work on the anatomy of gas exchange in lungs on multiple spatial scales using stereology.
Dennis Brown is a renal physiologist. He is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School,director of the Program in Membrane Biology at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH),and Associate Director of the MGH Center for Systems Biology. He is a member of the MGH Executive Committee on Research (ECOR),the central body for research governance at MGH.
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.
The Journal of Cell Biology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Rockefeller University Press.
Mitochondria are dynamic organelles with the ability to fuse and divide (fission),forming constantly changing tubular networks in most eukaryotic cells. These mitochondrial dynamics,first observed over a hundred years ago are important for the health of the cell,and defects in dynamics lead to genetic disorders. Through fusion,mitochondria can overcome the dangerous consequences of genetic malfunction. The process of mitochondrial fusion involves a variety of proteins that assist the cell throughout the series of events that form this process.
Don W. Cleveland is an American cancer biologist and neurobiologist.
Sandra Louise Schmid is the first Chief Scientific Officer of the Chan-Zuckerberg Biohub. She is a Canadian cell biologist by training;prior to her move to CZI,she was Professor and Chair of the Cell Biology Department at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Throughout her academic career,she has authored over 105 publications on the molecular mechanism and regulation of clathrin-mediated endocytosis and the structure and function of the GTPase dynamin and mechanisms governing membrane fission. She was the first to identify dynamin's key role in endocytosis. She is a co-founder of the journal Traffic and has been the Editor-in-Chief of Molecular Biology of the Cell,and the President of the American Society for Cell Biology.
Philip Siekevitz was an American cell biologist who spent most of his career at Rockefeller University. He was involved in early studies of protein synthesis and trafficking,established purification techniques to facilitate study of the cell nucleus,worked with Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine winner George Palade on cell membrane dynamics,and published extensively on the subject of postsynaptic density.
Anthony William Linnane (1930–2017) was an Australian professor of biochemistry,known for his work on mitochondria.
Jean Vance is a British-Canadian biochemist. She is known for her pioneering work on subcellular organelles and for her discovery of a connection between the endoplasmic reticulum and the mitochondrial membrane. She is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Alberta,Canada and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Richard James Youle is an American neurobiologist and molecular biologist. He is head of the Biochemistry Section at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda,Maryland.
