John Leroy Hennessy is an American computer scientist who is chairperson of Alphabet Inc. (Google). Hennessy is one of the founders of MIPS Technologies and Atheros,and also the tenth President of Stanford University. Hennessy announced that he would step down in the summer of 2016. He was succeeded as president by Marc Tessier-Lavigne. Marc Andreessen called him "the godfather of Silicon Valley."
The Stanford Daily is the student-run,independent daily newspaper serving Stanford University. The Daily is distributed throughout campus and the surrounding community of Palo Alto,California,United States. It has published since the university was founded in 1892.
Joseph Leonard Goldstein ForMemRS is an American biochemist. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1985,along with fellow University of Texas Southwestern researcher,Michael Brown,for their studies regarding cholesterol. They discovered that human cells have low-density lipoprotein (LDL) receptors that remove cholesterol from the blood and that when LDL receptors are not present in sufficient numbers,individuals develop hypercholesterolemia and become at risk for cholesterol related diseases,notably coronary heart disease. Their studies led to the development of statin drugs.
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.
Jonathan David Levin is an American economist and academic. He is currently the Philip H. Knight Professor and Dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Business. On April 4,2024,the Stanford University Board of Trustees announced Levin would become Stanford's 13th president,effective August 1,2024.
George D. Yancopoulos is a Greek-American biomedical scientist who is the co-founder,president and chief scientific officer of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals.
Marc D. Hauser is an American evolutionary biologist and a researcher in primate behavior,animal cognition and human behavior and neuroscience. Hauser was a professor of psychology at Harvard University from 1998 to 2011. In 2010 Harvard found him guilty of research misconduct,specifically fabricating and falsifying data,after which he resigned. Because Hauser's research was financed by government grants,the Office of Research Integrity of the Health and Human Services Department also investigated,finding in 2012 that Hauser had fabricated data,manipulated experimental results,and published falsified findings.
Carlo Maria Croce is an Italian-American professor of medicine at Ohio State University,specializing in oncology and the molecular mechanisms underlying cancer. Croce and his research have attracted public attention because of multiple allegations of scientific misconduct.
Aviv Regev is a computational biologist and systems biologist and Executive Vice President and Head of Genentech Research and Early Development in Genentech/Roche. She is a core member at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and professor at the Department of Biology of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Regev is a pioneer of single cell genomics and of computational and systems biology of gene regulatory circuits. She founded and leads the Human Cell Atlas project,together with Sarah Teichmann.
Retraction Watch is a blog that reports on retractions of scientific papers and on related topics. The blog was launched in August 2010 and is produced by science writers Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus. Its parent organization is the Center for Scientific Integrity,a US 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
Richard H. Scheller is the former Chief Science Officer and Head of Therapeutics at 23andMe and the former Executive Vice President of Research and Early Development at Genentech. He was a professor at Stanford University from 1982 to 2001 before joining Genentech. He has been awarded the Alan T. Waterman Award in 1989,the W. Alden Spencer Award in 1993 and the NAS Award in Molecular Biology in 1997,won the 2010 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience with Thomas C. Südhof and James E. Rothman,and won the 2013 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research with Thomas Südhof. He was also given the Life Sciences Distinguished Alumni Award from University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Xconomy was a media company providing news on business,life sciences,and technology focusing on the regions of Boston,Boulder/Denver,Detroit,New York City,Raleigh-Durham,San Diego,San Francisco and Seattle. The website was launched in June 2007 by founders Robert Buderi and Rebecca Zacks. Xconomy content covered "local personalities,companies,and technological trends to business and technology leaders" with a target audience of "entrepreneurs,business and technology executives and innovators,venture capitalists,angel investors,lawyers,and university researchers and officials." Bill Mitchell of the Poynter Institute described Xconomy in 2010 as reflecting "the insiderish feel of,say,Politico,but with some of the familiarity that you might expect from a small town paper."
Richard Priestley Lifton is an American biochemist and the 11th and current president of The Rockefeller University. He earned his B.A. in biological sciences from Dartmouth College and in 1986 he got his M.D. and Ph.D. in biochemistry from Stanford University. He trained at Brigham and Women's Hospital before starting his lab at Yale in 1993. He has been awarded the Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences for his discovery of genes that are associated with the regulation of blood pressure. In 2014 he was awarded the $3 million Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for his work. He has been a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator since 1994. He was inducted into the National Academy of Sciences and Institute of Medicine,and he is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Susan McConnell is a neurobiologist who studies the development of neural circuits in the mammalian cerebral cortex. She is a professor in the Department of Biology at Stanford University,where she is the Susan B. Ford Professor of Humanities and Sciences,a Bass University Fellow,and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Bharat B. Aggarwal is an Indian-American biochemist. His research has been in the areas of cytokines,the role of inflammation in cancer,and the anti-cancer effects of spices and herbs,particularly curcumin. He was a professor in the Department of Clinical Immunology,Bioimmunotherapy,and Experimental Therapeutics at University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston,Texas.
Elisabeth Margaretha Harbers-Bik is a Dutch microbiologist and scientific integrity consultant. Bik is known for her work detecting photo manipulation in scientific publications,and identifying over 4,000 potential cases of improper research conduct,including 400 research papers published by authors in China from a research paper mill company. Bik is the founder of Microbiome Digest,a blog with daily updates on microbiome research,and the Science Integrity Digest blog.
Ivan Oransky is an American physician,medical researcher and journalist,known for his advocacy of scientific integrity through improved tracking and institutional reforms. His opinions and statistics on scientific misconduct have been described in the media.
Theo Baker is an American investigative journalist for The Stanford Daily,the student newspaper of Stanford University. In 2023,he became the youngest recipient of the George Polk Award for his reporting that led to the resignation of Stanford president Marc Tessier-Lavigne.
Richard Paul Saller is an American professor of European studies. He is the former provost of the University of Chicago and the former dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University,where he is currently the university's president.
