Richard Axel

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Neuroscientist; fundamental work on the sense of smell

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Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine, 2004; Gairdner Foundation Award and many other awards

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Howard Hughes Investigator

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Columbia University Health Sciences Center

P. Roy Vagelos

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Biochemist; seminal work in fatty acid metabolism which led to the development of statin drugs

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Chairman of the Board and CEO (retired), Merck & Co. Inc.

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Currently, Chairman, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons Development Campaign

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Member, National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine; National Business Hall of Fame

2006 Fellows

Dimitri Beskos

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Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Patras, Greece

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Computational mechanics, structural dynamics and earthquake engineering

B. J. Casey

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Director and Sackler Professor of Developmental Psychobiology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University

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Development of brain circuitry in children with developmental disorders, using magnetic resonance imaging

Virginia Cornish

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Associate Professor of Chemistry, Columbia University

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Protein function at the molecular level, directed evolution to study enzyme function and engineering, manipulation of ribosome machinery to synthesize artificial polymers

Claude Desplan

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Professor, Department of Biology, New York University

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Genetic control of pattern development, retinal specification of color vision

Vincent Fischetti

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Professor and Chairman, Laboratory of Bacterial Pathogenesis and Immunology, The Rockefeller University

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Mechanism of bacterial pathogenesis and immune response to infections

Uwe Gielen

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Professor of Psychology, St. Francis College

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Cross-cultural psychology, moral development, gender roles

Norman Horing

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Professor of Physics, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Semiconductor and nanostructure science, particularly dielectric properties and quantum transport

Richard Lokshin

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Professor of Biological Sciences, St. John's University

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Pioneering work on programmed cell death

John Morrison

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Dean of Basic Science and Professor of Neuroscience, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York

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Neurodegeneration, synaptic plasticity, endocrine effects on cortical circuitry, Alzheimer's disease

Donald Pfaff

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Professor, The Rockefeller University

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Molecular mechanisms of behavior, how the brain manages specific natural behaviors, and hormonal and genetic influences on generalized brain arousal

Nancy Russo

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Regents Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies, Arizona State University

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Conceptualization of gender and the psychology of women

Ralph Steinman

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Henry Kunkel Professor, Director of Christopher Browne Center for Immunology and Immune Diseases and Professor and Senior Physician, The Rockefeller University

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Discover of dendritic cells. Research focuses on the biology of dendritic cells, antigen uptake and its control with the long term goal of enhancing or controlling the immune system

Gustavo Stolovitzky

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Manager, Functional Genomics and Systems Biology Group, Computational Biology Center, IBM TJ Watson Research Center

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Data mining of high throughput biological data, reverse engineering biological circuits and the mathematical modeling of biological processes

Lawrence Wennogle

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VP for Drug Discovery, Intra-Cellular Therapeutics, Inc., New York

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Company focus on drug development for treatment of neurological and psychiatric diseases; previous research on brain cholecystokinin receptors