Timothy John Mitchison is a cell biologist and systems biologist and Hasib Sabbagh Professor of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School in the United States. He is known for his discovery,with Marc Kirschner,of dynamic instability in microtubules,for studies of the mechanism of cell division,and for contributions to chemical biology.
The American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) is a professional society that was founded in 1960.
Elaine V. Fuchs is an American cell biologist famous for her work on the biology and molecular mechanisms of mammalian skin and skin diseases,who helped lead the modernization of dermatology. Fuchs pioneered reverse genetics approaches,which assess protein function first and then assess its role in development and disease. In particular,Fuchs researches skin stem cells and their production of hair and skin. She is an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development at The Rockefeller University.
Scott L. Friedman is an American scientist,professor and physician who works in the field of hepatology. Friedman has conducted pioneering research into the underlying causes of scarring,or fibrosis,associated with chronic liver disease,by characterizing the key fibrogenic cell type,the hepatic stellate cell His laboratory has also discovered a novel tumor suppressor gene,KLF6 that is inactivated in a number of human cancers including primary liver cancer. Friedman is the Fishberg Professor of Medicine,and Chief of the Division of Liver Diseases,Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. Friedman has two children,a son,Leor Friedman,and a daughter,Yael Friedman.
Ethylin Wang Jabs is an American physician and scientist with expertise in medical genetics,pediatrics,and craniofacial biology. She is currently vice chair of the Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center. Jabs is also a professor in the departments of developmental and regenerative biology and pediatrics at Mount Sinai and an adjunct professor in pediatrics,medicine,and surgery at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Her research and clinical practice have focused on development genetics and patients with birth defects.
Joan S. Brugge is the Louise Foote Pfeiffer Professor of Cell Biology and the Director of the Ludwig Center at Harvard Medical School,where she also served as the Chair of the Department of Cell Biology from 2004 to 2014. Her research focuses on cancer biology,and she has been recognized for her explorations into the Rous sarcoma virus,extracellular matrix adhesion,and epithelial tumor progression in breast cancer.
Zena Werb was a professor and the Vice Chair of Anatomy at the University of California,San Francisco. She was also the co-leader of the Cancer,Immunity,and Microenvironment Program at the Hellen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and a member of the Executive Committee of the Sabre-Sandler Asthma Basic Research Center at UCSF. Her research focused on features of the microenvironment surrounding cells,with particular interest in the extracellular matrix and the role of its protease enzymes in cell signaling.
Rong Li is the Director of Mechanobiology Institute,a Singapore Research Center of Excellence,at the National University of Singapore. She is a Distinguished Professor at the National University of Singapore's Department of Biological Sciences and Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Cell Biology and Chemical &Biomolecular Engineering at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Whiting School of Engineering. She previously served as Director of Center for Cell Dynamics in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine’s Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences. She is a leader in understanding cellular asymmetry,division and evolution,and specifically,in how eukaryotic cells establish their distinct morphology and organization in order to carry out their specialized functions.
Rebecca W. Heald is an American professor of cell and developmental biology. She is currently a Professor in the Department of Molecular &Cell Biology at the University of California,Berkeley. In May 2019,she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. She has published over 120 research articles in peer reviewed journals.
Miram Merad is a French-Algerian professor in Cancer immunology and the Director of the Marc and Jennifer Lipschultz Precision Immunology Institute (PrIISM) at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS) in New York,NY. She is the corecipient of the 2018 William B. Coley Award for Distinguished Research in Basic Immunology and a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine.
Valentina Greco is an Italian-born biologist who teaches at the Yale School of Medicine as the Carolyn Walch Slayman Professor of Genetics and is an Associate Professor in the Cell Biology and Dermatology departments. Her research focuses on the role of skin stem cells in tissue regeneration.
Women in Cell Biology (WCIB) is a subcommittee of the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) created to promote women in cell biology and present awards.
Viviana Simon is a Professor of Microbiology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS). She is a member of the ISMMS Global Health and Emerging Pathogens Institute. Her research considers viral-host interactions and the mode of action of retroviral restriction factors. During the COVID-19 pandemic,Simon developed an antibody test that can determine immunity to Coronavirus disease 2019.
Anne Schaefer is a neuroscientist,professor of Neuroscience,vice-chair of Neuroscience,and director of the Center for Glial Biology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. Schaefer investigates the epigenetic mechanisms of cellular plasticity and their role in the regulation of microglia-neuron interactions. Her research is aimed at understanding the mechanisms underlying various neuropsychiatric disorders and finding novel ways to target the epigenome therapeutically.
Trisha Nell Davis is an American biochemist,the current Earl Davie/ZymoGenetics Chair of the department of biochemistry at the University of Washington. Her early research focused on Calmodulin,though the primary focus of her lab has since shifted to the molecular machinery of cell division in budding yeast,especially the microtubule organizing centers and the kinetochores.
Erika L F. Holzbaur is an American biologist who is the William Maul Measey Professor of Physiology at University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. Her research considers the dynamics of organelle motility along cytoskeleton of cells. She is particularly interested in the molecular mechanisms that underpin neurodegenerative diseases.
Susanne Marie Rafelski is an American biochemist. Rafelski studied biochemistry at the University of Arizona with David Galbraith. She obtained her PhD in 2005 from Stanford University,under supervision of Julie Theriot.
Eleftheria Maratos-Flier is an American endocrinologist,and emerita Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School,best known for her expertise in the pathophysiology and prevention of obesity-related metabolic disorders,and for her discoveries on the neuroendocrine control of feeding behaviour. She is a contributing author to known textbooks and reviews in internal medicine,endocrinology,and physiology. Her marriage with professor Jeffrey Flier,was noted by Forbes as a lasting and productive bond between eminent medical scholars. They have two adult daughters who are also physicians. She is also known as Terry Maratos-Flier.
Antonina Roll-Mecak is a Romanian-born American molecular biophysicist. She is currently the Senior Investigator and Chief of the Unit of Cell Biology and Biophysics at the National Institutes of Health. She holds appointments at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke;and at the Biochemistry and Biophysics Center of the National Heart,Lung and Blood Institute. Roll-Mecak is known for her work in understanding cytoskeletal regulation,mechanisms of microtubule dynamics and laying the groundwork for deciphering the complexities of the tubulin code. She is also known for her work on microtubule severing enzymes spastin and Katanin.
Catherine G Galbraith is an American scientist and an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at OHSU and Discovery Engine Investigator at Knight Cancer Institute,known for her work in cell mobility and cell migration as well as super-resolution microscopy. Together with James Galbraith,she heads the Galbraith Lab.
