President's Council

Peter Agre

Nobel Laureate & Univ. Prof. and Director, Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Inst., Dept. Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Bloomberg School of Public Health

Richard Axel

Nobel Laureate & University Professor, Columbia Univ.; 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

Paul Berg

Nobel Laureate & Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Biochemistry, Stanford Univ.

Len Blavatnik

Chairman, Access Industries

Günter Blobel

Nobel Laureate & Director, Laboratory for Cell Biology, Rockefeller Univ.

Sydney Brenner

Nobel Laureate & Distinguished Prof., Salk Inst.

Michael S. Brown

Nobel Laureate & Prof. of Molecular Genetics, Univ. of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Linda Buck

Nobel Laureate & Investigator for HHMI; member of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Karen E. Burke

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

Thomas R. Cech

Nobel Laureate & Distinguished Prof., Univ. of Colorado, Boulder

Martin Chalfie

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

Cecilia Chan

Managing Director. Gold Avenue Ltd.

Aaron J. Ciechanover

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

Marcelo Ebrard Casaubon

Mayor, Mexico City

Edmond H. Fischer

Nobel Laureate & Professor Emeritus, Department of Biochemistry, Univ. of Washington

Alan J. Friedman

former Director, New York Hall of Science

Colin Goddard

Chief Executive Officer, OSI Pharmaceuticals

Joseph Goldstein

Nobel Laureate & Chairman, Molecular Genetics, Univ. of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Paul Greengard

Nobel Laureate & Prof. of Molecular & Cellular Neuroscience, Rockefeller Univ.

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 & Prof., Physiology & Cell Biology, Columbia Univ.

Kiyoshi Kurokawa

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

Leon Lederman

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

Gregory Lucier

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Life Technologies Corporation

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; Honorary Life Governor, The New York Academy of Sciences

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

Ivan Seidenberg

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Verizon

Ismail Serageldin

Director, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, 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, The 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, CB Richard Ellis

Shirley Tilghman

President, Princeton Univ.

Harold Varmus

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

Frank Walsh

Professor, King’s College London, Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases

Gerald Weissmann

Prof. of Medicine, NY Univ. 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 & Chairman Emeritus, The New York Academy of Sciences; former 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, Human Frontier Science Program; former Secretary General, European Research Council; former President, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Germany

Elias Zerhouni

Professor of Radiology & Bioengineering, Johns Hopkins University; Senior Fellow, Global Health Program, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Senior Science & Technology Adviser, Sanofi-Aventis

Guangzhao Zhou

former Chairman, Chinese Association of Science & Technology