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Peter Agre, Nobel Laureate & Vice Chancellor for Science and Technology, Duke Univ.
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Richard Axel, Nobel Laureate & University Professor, Columbia University; Investigator, HHMI
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Lee Babiss, Global Head, Pharma Research, Roche Pharmaceuticals
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David Baltimore, Nobel Laureate & former President, Caltech
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Etienne-Emile Baulieu, former President, French Academy of Sciences
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Eleanor Baum, Dean, School of Engineering, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
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Paul Berg, Nobel Laureate & Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Biochemistry, Stanford University
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Len Blavatnik, Chairman, Access Industries
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Günter Blobel, Nobel Laureate & Director, Laboratory for Cell Biology, Rockefeller University
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Christian Brechot, Director General, INSERM, France
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Sydney Brenner, Nobel Laureate & Distinguished Professor, Salk Institute
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Michael S. Brown, Nobel Laureate & Professor of Molecular Genetics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
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Linda Buck, Nobel Laureate & Investigator for Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Member of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
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Karen E. Burke, Dermatologist and Research Scientist
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Thomas R. Cech, Nobel Laureate & President, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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Ceclia Chan, Vice Chairman, Immtech Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
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Aaron J. Ciechanover , Nobel Laureate & Distinguished Research Professor, Tumor and Vascular Biology Research Center, Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Inst. of Tech., Haifa, Israel
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Gordon Conway, Chief Science Advisor, UK Department for International Development
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Peter Doherty, Nobel Laureate & Researcher, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN; Univ. of Melbourne
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Frank L. Douglas, Executive-in-Residence, MIT Sloan School of Management; former Executive Vice President, Aventis
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Edmond H. Fischer, Ph.D, Nobel Laureate & Professor Emeritus, Department of Bio Chemistry, Univ. of Washington
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Richard N. Foster, Millbrook Management Group, LLC
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Claire M. Fraser-Liggett, Director, Univ. of Maryland School of Medicine
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Alan J. Friedman, former Director, New York Hall of Science
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Jean-Pierre Garnier, Chief Executive Officer, GlaxoSmithKline, UK
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Colin Goddard, Chief Executive Officer, OSI Pharmaceuticals
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Joseph Goldstein, Nobel Laureate & Chairman, Dept. of Molecular Genetics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
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Paul Greengard, Nobel Laureate & Professor of Molecular & Cellular Neuroscience, Rockefeller University
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Peter Gruss, President, Max Planck Gesellschaft, Germany
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William A. Haseltine, President, The Haseltine Foundation for Medical Sciences and the Arts; Chairman, Haseltine Global Health, LLC
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Eric Kandel, Nobel Laureate & Professor, Physiology and Cell Biology, Columbia University
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Kiyoshi Kurokawa, Science Advisor to the Prime Minister of Japan; Adjunct Professor, RCAST, The University of Tokyo; Professor, Research Institute of Science and Technology, Tokai University
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Leon Lederman, Nobel Laureate & Pritzker Prof. of Science, Illinois Inst. of Tech.; Resident Scholar, Illinois Math & Science Academy
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Roderick MacKinnon, Nobel Laureate & John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Prof., Rockefeller Univ.; Investigator, HHMI
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Joel S. Marcus, Chief Executive Officer, Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc.
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Gerald J. McDougall, National Partner, Global Pharmaceutical & Health Sciences Practice, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
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Richard Menschel, Senior Director, Goldman Sachs
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Ronay Menschel, Chairman of the Board, Phipps Houses; Board of Overseers, Weill Cornell Medical College
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John F. Niblack, former President, Pfizer Global Research & Development
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Jean-Marc Neimetz, Vice President, Global Life Science Group, Capgemini
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Paul Nurse, Nobel Laureate & President, Rockefeller Univ
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Robert C. Richardson, , Nobel Laureate & Senior Vice Provost for Research, Floyd R. Newman Prof. of Physics, Cornell Univ.
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Peter Ringrose, Chairman, Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council, UK; former CSO, Bristol-Myers Squibb
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Edward F. Rover, President, The Dana Foundation
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F. Sherwood Rowland, Nobel Laureate & Prof. of Chemistry & Earth Science, Univ. of California, Irvine
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Bengt Samuelsson, Nobel Laureate & Prof., Medical & Physiological Chem., Karolinska Inst.; former Chairman, The Nobel Foundation
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Charles Sanders, former President, GlaxoSmithKline
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Ismail Serageldin, Librarian of Alexandria, Director of the Bibliotheca Alexandria, The Library of Alexandria, Egypt
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Phillip A. Sharp, Nobel Laureate & Director, The McGovern Inst., MIT Center for Cancer Research
Michael Sohlman, Executive Director, Nobel Foundation
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Paul Stoffels, Company Group Chairman, World Wide Research & Development, Pharmaceuticals Group, Johnson & Johnson
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Mary Ann Tighe, Chief Executive Officer, New York Tri-State Region, C B Richard Ellis
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Shirley Tilghman, President, Princeton University
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Harold Varmus, Nobel Laureate & President & CEO, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
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Frank Walsh, Executive Vice President, Discovery Research, Wyeth Research
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Gerald Weissmann, Professor of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine
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John Whitehead, former Chairman, Lower Manhattan Development Corp.; former Co-Chairman of Goldman Sachs
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George Whitesides, Mallinckrodt Prof. of Chemistry, Harvard Univ.
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Torsten N. Wiesel, Nobel Laureate & Honorary Life Governor, New York Academy of Sciences; Secretary General, Human Frontier Science Program Organization; President Emeritus, Rockefeller Univ.
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Frank Wilczek, Nobel Laureate & Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics, MIT
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Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker, Secretary General, European Research Council; former President, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Germany
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Guangzhao Zhou, former Chairman, Chinese Association of Science & Technology