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President's Council

Peter Agre, Nobel Laureate & Vice Chancellor for Science and Technology, Duke Univ.

Richard Axel, Nobel Laureate & University Professor, Columbia University; Investigator, HHMI

Lee Babiss, Global Head, Pharma Research, Roche Pharmaceuticals

David Baltimore, Nobel Laureate & former President, Caltech

Etienne-Emile Baulieu, former President, French Academy of Sciences

Eleanor Baum, Dean, School of Engineering, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art

Paul Berg, Nobel Laureate & Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Biochemistry, Stanford University

Len Blavatnik, Chairman, Access Industries

Günter Blobel, Nobel Laureate & Director, Laboratory for Cell Biology, Rockefeller University

Christian Brechot, Vice President for Medical and Scientific Affairs, Merieux Alliance

Sydney Brenner, Nobel Laureate & Distinguished Professor, Salk Institute

Michael S. Brown, Nobel Laureate & Professor of Molecular Genetics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Linda Buck, Nobel Laureate & Investigator for Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Member of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Karen E. Burke, Dermatologist and Research Scientist

Marcelo Ebrard Casaubon, Mayor, Mexico City

Thomas R. Cech, Nobel Laureate & President, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Martin Chalfie, Nobel Laureate & William R. Kenan, Jr. Prof. of Biological Sciences; Chair, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Columbia Univ.

Ceclia Chan, Vice Chairman, Immtech Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Aaron J. Ciechanover , Nobel Laureate & Distinguished Research Professor, Tumor and Vascular Biology Research Center, Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Inst. of Tech., Haifa, Israel

Gordon Conway, Chief Science Advisor, UK Department for International Development

Peter Doherty, Nobel Laureate & Researcher, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN; Univ. of Melbourne

Frank Douglas, Special Fellow, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation; former Executive Vice President, Aventis

Edmond H. Fischer, Ph.D, Nobel Laureate & Professor Emeritus, Department of Bio Chemistry, Univ. of Washington

Richard N. Foster, Millbrook Management Group, LLC

Claire M. Fraser-Liggett, Director, Univ. of Maryland School of Medicine

Alan J. Friedman, former Director, New York Hall of Science

Colin Goddard, Chief Executive Officer, OSI Pharmaceuticals

Joseph Goldstein, Nobel Laureate & Chairman, Dept. of Molecular Genetics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Paul Greengard, Nobel Laureate & Professor of Molecular & Cellular Neuroscience, Rockefeller University

Peter Gruss, President, Max Planck Gesellschaft, Germany

William A. Haseltine, President, The Haseltine Foundation for Medical Sciences and the Arts; Chairman, Haseltine Global Health, LLC

Eric Kandel, Nobel Laureate & Professor, Physiology and Cell Biology, Columbia University

Kiyoshi Kurokawa, former Science Advisor to the Prime Minister of Japan; Adjunct Professor, RCAST, The University of Tokyo; Professor, Research Institute of Science and Technology, Tokai University

Leon Lederman, Nobel Laureate & Pritzker Prof. of Science, Illinois Inst. of Tech.; Resident Scholar, Illinois Math & Science Academy

Roderick MacKinnon, Nobel Laureate & John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Prof., Rockefeller Univ.; Investigator, HHMI

Joel S. Marcus, Chief Executive Officer, Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc.

Gerald J. McDougall, National Partner, Global Pharmaceutical & Health Sciences Practice, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Richard Menschel, Senior Director, Goldman Sachs

Ronay Menschel, Chairman of the Board, Phipps Houses; Board of Overseers, Weill Cornell Medical College

John F. Niblack, former President, Pfizer Global Research & Development

Jean-Marc Neimetz, Vice President, Global Life Science Group, Capgemini

Paul Nurse, Nobel Laureate & President, Rockefeller Univ

Robert C. Richardson, , Nobel Laureate & Senior Vice Provost for Research, Floyd R. Newman Prof. of Physics, Cornell Univ.

Peter Ringrose, Chairman, Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council, UK; former CSO, Bristol-Myers Squibb

Edward F. Rover, President, The Dana Foundation

F. Sherwood Rowland, Nobel Laureate & Prof. of Chemistry & Earth Science, Univ. of California, Irvine

Bengt Samuelsson, Nobel Laureate & Prof., Medical & Physiological Chem., Karolinska Inst.; former Chairman, The Nobel Foundation

Charles Sanders, former President, GlaxoSmithKline

Ismail Serageldin, Librarian of Alexandria, Director of the Bibliotheca Alexandria, The Library of Alexandria, Egypt

Phillip A. Sharp, Nobel Laureate & Director, The McGovern Inst., MIT Center for Cancer Research

Elliott Sigal, Chief Scientific Officer, Bristol-Myers Squibb

Michael Sohlman, Executive Director, Nobel Foundation

Paul Stoffels, Company Group Chairman, World Wide Research & Development, Pharmaceuticals Group, Johnson & Johnson

Mary Ann Tighe, Chief Executive Officer, New York Tri-State Region, C B Richard Ellis

Shirley Tilghman, President, Princeton University

Harold Varmus, Nobel Laureate & President & CEO, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Frank Walsh, former Executive Vice President, Discovery Research, Wyeth Research

Gerald Weissmann, Professor of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine

John Whitehead, former Chairman, Lower Manhattan Development Corp.; former Co-Chairman of Goldman Sachs

George Whitesides, Mallinckrodt Prof. of Chemistry, Harvard Univ.

Torsten N. Wiesel, Nobel Laureate & Honorary Life Governor, New York Academy of Sciences; Secretary General, Human Frontier Science Program Organization; President Emeritus, Rockefeller Univ.

Frank Wilczek, Nobel Laureate & Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics, MIT

Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker, Secretary General, European Research Council; former President, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Germany

Guangzhao Zhou, former Chairman, Chinese Association of Science & Technology


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