President's Council

 

Peter Agre

Nobel Laureate and University Professor and Director, Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Bloomberg School of Public Health

Richard Axel

Nobel Laureate and University Professor, Columbia University; Investigator, HHMI

David Baltimore

Nobel Laureate and former President, Caltech

Etienne-Emile Baulieu

Former President, French Academy of Sciences

Paul Berg

Nobel Laureate and Professor Emeritus, Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University

Len Blavatnik

Chairman, Access Industries

Günter Blobel

Nobel Laureate and Director, Laboratory for Cell Biology, Rockefeller University

Irina Bokova

Director General, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

Sydney Brenner

Nobel Laureate and Distinguished Professor, Salk Institute

Michael S. Brown

Nobel Laureate and Professor of Molecular Genetics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Linda Buck

Nobel Laureate and Investigator, HHMI; member of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Karen E. Burke

Dermatologist and Research Scientist; Honorary Life Governor, The New York Academy of Sciences

Thomas R. Cech

Nobel Laureate and Distinguished Professor, University of Colorado Boulder

Martin Chalfie

Nobel Laureate and William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Biological Sciences; Chair, Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University

Cecilia Chan

Managing Director, Gold Avenue Ltd.

Aaron J. Ciechanover

Nobel Laureate and Distinguished Research Professor, Tumor and Vascular Biology Research Center, Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

Peter Doherty

Nobel Laureate and Researcher, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (Memphis, TN) and the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne

Marcelo Ebrard Casaubon

Former Mayor, Mexico City

Edmond H. Fischer

Nobel Laureate and Professor Emeritus, Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington

Joseph Goldstein

Nobel Laureate and Chairman, Molecular Genetics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

S. Gopalakrishnan

Executive Co-Chairman of the Board, Infosys Technologies Limited

Paul Greengard

Nobel Laureate and Professor of Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, Rockefeller University

Glenda Greenwald

President, Aspen Brain Forum Foundation

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 and Professor, Physiology and Cell Biology, Columbia University

Kiyoshi Kurokawa

Former Science Advisor to the Prime Minister of Japan; Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)

Leon Lederman

Nobel Laureate and Pritzker Professor of Science, Illinois Institute of Technology; Resident Scholar, Illinois Math and Science Academy

Gregory Lucier

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Life Technologies Corporation

Roderick MacKinnon

Nobel Laureate and John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Professor, Rockefeller University; Investigator, HHMI

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

Heather Munroe-Blum

Principal and Vice-Chancellor, McGill University

Ferid Murad

Nobel Laureate; Director, IMM Center for Cell Signaling, The University of Texas at Houston

John F. Niblack

Former President, Pfizer Global Research & Development; Honorary Life Governor, The New York Academy of Sciences

Paul Nurse

Nobel Laureate and Chief Executive, Francis Crick Institute; President, The Royal Society

Richard Roberts

Nobel Laureate and Chief Scientific Officer, New England Biolabs

Edward F. Rover

President, The Dana Foundation

Bengt Samuelsson

Nobel Laureate and Professor, Medical and Physiological Chemistry, Karolinska Institute; former Chairman, The Nobel Foundation

Ivan Seidenberg

Advisory Partner of Perella Weinberg Partners LP; former Chairman, Verizon Communications Inc.

Ismail Serageldin

Director, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, The Library of Alexandria, Egypt

Phillip A. Sharp

Nobel Laureate and Director, The McGovern Institute, MIT Center for Cancer Research

Elliott Sigal

Chief Scientific Officer, Bristol-Myers Squibb

Michael Sohlman

Former Executive Director, The Nobel Foundation

Paul Stoffels

Chief Scientific Officer, Johnson & Johnson; member of the Johnson & Johnson Executive Committee and Management Committee; Worldwide Co-Chairman, Pharmaceuticals Group

Marc Tessier-Lavigne

President, The Rockefeller University

Mary Ann Tighe

Chief Executive Officer, New York Tri-State Region, CB Richard Ellis

Shirley Tilghman

President, Princeton University

Frank Walsh

Chief Executive Officer, Ossianix, Inc.

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

Woodford L. & Ann A. Flowers University Professor, Harvard University

Torsten N. Wiesel

Nobel Laureate and Chairman Emeritus, The New York Academy of Sciences; former Secretary General, Human Frontier Science Program Organization; President Emeritus, Rockefeller University

Frank Wilczek

Nobel Laureate and Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics, MIT

Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker

Secretary General, Human Frontier Science Program; former Secretary General, European Research Council; former President, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Germany

Andrew Witty

Chief Executive Officer, GlaxoSmithKline

Dato Zakri Abdul Hamid

Science Adviser to the Prime Minister of Malaysia

Elias Zerhouni

President, Global Research & Development, Sanofi-aventis

Ahmed Zewail

Nobel Laureate and Linus Pauling Chair of Chemistry and Physics, California Institute of Technology

Guangzhao Zhou

Former Chairman, Chinese Association for Science and Technology