Carolyn Ruth Bertozzi is an American chemist and Nobel laureate,known for her wide-ranging work spanning both chemistry and biology. She coined the term "bioorthogonal chemistry" for chemical reactions compatible with living systems. Her recent efforts include synthesis of chemical tools to study cell surface sugars called glycans and how they affect diseases such as cancer,inflammation,and viral infections like COVID-19. At Stanford University,she holds the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professorship in the School of Humanities and Sciences. Bertozzi is also an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) and is the former director of the Molecular Foundry,a nanoscience research center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
The California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3) is a nonprofit research and technology commercialization institute affiliated with three University of California campuses in the San Francisco Bay Area:Berkeley,San Francisco,and Santa Cruz. QB3's domain is the quantitative biosciences:areas of biology in which advances are chiefly made by scientists applying techniques from physics,chemistry,engineering,and computer science.
Gladstone Institutes is an independent,non-profit biomedical research organization whose focus is to better understand,prevent,treat and cure cardiovascular,viral and neurological conditions such as heart failure,HIV/AIDS and Alzheimer's disease. Its researchers study these diseases using techniques of basic and translational science. Another focus at Gladstone is building on the development of induced pluripotent stem cell technology by one of its investigators,2012 Nobel Laureate Shinya Yamanaka,to improve drug discovery,personalized medicine and tissue regeneration.
Dundee Cell Products (DCP) is a biotechnology company headquartered in Dundee,Scotland,United Kingdom.
Regis Baker Kelly OBE is a neuroscientist and university administrator who develops academia-industry partnerships and supports early-stage entrepreneurship in the life sciences.
Diane L. Barber is an American cell biologist. She is an Endowed Professor and Chair of the Department of Cell and Tissue Biology at University of California,San Francisco (UCSF) and an elected American Association for the Advancement of Science fellow in recognition of her "distinguished contributions on cell signaling by plasma membrane ion transport proteins and on the design and function of proteins regulated by intracellular pH dynamics." In addition to teaching graduate and professional students and her administrative service,she directs a research laboratory funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Jennifer Anne Doudna is an American biochemist who has done pioneering work in CRISPR gene editing,and made other fundamental contributions in biochemistry and genetics. Doudna was one of the first women to share a Nobel in the sciences. She received the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry,with Emmanuelle Charpentier,"for the development of a method for genome editing." She is the Li Ka Shing Chancellor's Chair Professor in the department of chemistry and the department of molecular and cell biology at the University of California,Berkeley. She has been an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute since 1997.
Wendell Lim is an American biochemist who is the Byer's Distinguished Professor of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology at the University of California,San Francisco. He is the director of the UCSF Cell Design Institute. He earned his A.B. in chemistry from Harvard University working with Jeremy Knowles on enzyme evolutionary optimization. He obtained his Ph.D in biochemistry and biophysics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the guidance of Bob Sauer using genetic and biophysical approaches to understand the role of hydrophobic core interactions in protein folding. He then did his postdoctoral work with Frederic Richards at Yale University on the structure of protein interaction domains. Lim's work has focused on cell signaling,synthetic biology,and cell engineering,particularly in immune cells.
The Vision Institute is a research center in the Quinze-Vingts National Eye Hospital in Paris,France. It is one of several such centers in Europe on eye diseases.
Leor S. Weinberger is an American virologist and quantitative biologist. He is credited with discovering the HIV virus latency circuit,which provided the first experimental evidence that stochastic fluctuations ('noise') in gene expression are used for cell fate decisions. He has also pioneered the concept of therapeutic interfering particles,or “TIPs”,which are resistance-proof antivirals. His TED talk on this novel antiviral approach 20 years in the making has been called a "highlight" of TED and received a standing ovation from the live audience.
The Quantitative Biology Center (QBiC) is a Strategic Research Center of the Japanese national research and development institute,Riken. In November 2014,they succeeded in making a translucent mouse in order to see its internal organs more clearly.
Eric M. Verdin is a geroscientist,researcher,and professor who has served as President and chief executive officer of the Buck Institute for Research on Aging since 2016. Verdin’s research focuses on metabolism,diet,and the different proteins and molecules that affect the aging process and its associated diseases. He has published more than 210 papers and has more than 15 patents.
The Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) is an Australian neuroscience research institute,located in Brisbane at the St Lucia campus of The University of Queensland (UQ). Founding director Professor Perry Bartlett established the QBI in 2003 with assistance from The University of Queensland,Queensland State Government,and Chuck Feeney,founder of The Atlantic Philanthropies. The purpose-built facility was commissioned in 2004 and on 19 November 2007,the building was opened by former Queensland Premier Anna Bligh.
Carole LaBonne is a Developmental and Stem Cell Biologist at Northwestern University. She is the Erastus O. Haven Professor of Life Sciences,and Chair of the Department of Molecular Biosciences.
Katerina Akassoglou is a neuroimmunologist who is a Senior Investigator and Director of In Vivo Imaging Research at the Gladstone Institutes. Akassoglou holds faculty positions as a Professor of Neurology at the University of California,San Francisco. Akassoglou has pioneered investigations of blood-brain barrier integrity and development of neurological diseases. She found that compromised blood-brain barrier integrity leads to fibrinogen leakage into the brain inducing neurodegeneration. Akassoglou is internationally recognized for her scientific discoveries.
Barbara Elizabeth Engelhardt is an American computer scientist and specialist in bioinformatics. Working as a Professor at Stanford University,her work has focused on latent variable models,exploratory data analysis for genomic data,and QTLs. In 2021,she was awarded the Overton Prize by the International Society for Computational Biology.
Robert V. Farese,Jr., is an American physician-scientist and professor of Cell Biology at the Sloan Kettering Institute of Memorial Sloan Kettering. He is an internationally recognized leader in the study of cellular lipid metabolism and has made seminal contributions to our understanding of energy storage as triglycerides in cellular organelles called lipid droplets.
Seth Shipman is an American scientist. Shipman is an assistant professor at the Gladstone Institutes and the University of California,San Francisco,where he researches synthetic biology,genetics,and neuroscience.
The Quantitative Biosciences Institute (QBI) was established in 2016 as an organized research unit (ORU) within the School of Pharmacy at the University of California-San Francisco. The current director of QBI is Nevan Krogan.
Danica GalonićFujimori is a Serbian-American chemical biologist who is a professor at the University of California,San Francisco. Her research considers nucleic acid synthesis and tissue engineering. In the search for new therapeutics and vaccines,she has studied the interactions between ribosomes and SARS-CoV-2.
