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

David Baltimore, Nobel Laureate; President Emeritus, Caltech

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

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

Len Blavatnik, Chairman, Access Industries, Inc.

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

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

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., University of Colorado, Boulder

Martin Chalfie, Nobel Laureate; University Professor of Biological Sciences, Columbia University

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

Kenneth L. Davis, President and CEO of the Mount Sinai Health System in New York City

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

Mikael Dolsten, President, Worldwide Research and Development; Senior Vice-President, Pfizer Inc

Jan Eliasson, Former Deputy Secretary-General to the United Nations

Edmond H. Fischer, Nobel Laureate; Professor Emeritus, Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington

Jerome I. Friedman, Nobel Laureate; Institute Professor & Professor of Physics, Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Joseph Goldstein, Nobel Laureate; Chairman, Molecular Genetics, Univ. of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

S. “Kris” Gopalakrishnan, Chairman, Axilor Ventures/Co-founder Infosys

Paul Greengard, Nobel Laureate; Prof. of Molecular & Cellular Neuroscience, The Rockefeller University

Glenda Greenwald, President, Aspen Brain Forum Foundation

William A. Haseltine, Chairman, Haseltine Global Health, LLC

Hon. Jerry MacArthur Hultin, Senior Presidential Fellow, New York University; President Emeritus, Polytechnic Institute of NYU; former Under Secretary of the Navy

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

Gregory Lucier, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, NuVasive

Roderick MacKinnon, Nobel Laureate; John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Prof., The Rockefeller University; Investigator, HHMI

Richard Menschel, Senior Director, Goldman Sachs

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

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; Former President, The Rockefeller University; Former President, The Royal Society, London; Chief Executive, The Francis Crick Institute

Yoshinori Ohsumi, Nobel Laureate; Professor, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology (IIR)

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Nobel Laureate; President, the Royal Society

Richard Roberts, Nobel Laureate; Chief Scientific Officer, New England Biolabs

James E. Rothman, Nobel Laureate; Yale University School of Medicine, Fergus F. Wallace Professor of Cell Biology and Professor of Chemistry; Chairman, Department of Cell Biology; Director, Nanobiology Institute

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

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

Phillip A. Sharp, Nobel Laureate; Director, The McGovern Institute, MIT Center for Cancer Research

Feike Sijbesma, CEO/Chairman of the Managing Board, Royal DSM

Michael Sohlman, Former Executive Director, The Nobel Foundation

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

Jack W. Szostak, Nobel Laureate; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School; Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University; Alex A. Rich Distinguished Investigator, Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital

Diana Taylor, Vice-Chair, Solera Capital LLC

Marc Tessier-Lavigne, President, Stanford University

Craig B. Thompson, President and CEO, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Shirley Tilghman, President Emerita/Professor of Molecular Biology, Princeton University

Frank Walsh, Chief Executive Officer, Ossianix, Inc.

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

Torsten N. Wiesel, Nobel Laureate; Chairman Emeritus, The New York Academy of Sciences; Former Secretary General, Human Frontier Science Program Organization; President Emeritus, The Rockefeller Univ.

Frank Wilczek, Nobel Laureate; Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker, Secretary General, Human Frontier Science Program Organization; Former Secretary General, European Research Council; Former President, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Germany

Andrew Witty, Chief Executive Officer, GlaxoSmithKline

Tan Sri Zakri Abdul Hamid, Science Adviser to the Prime Minister of Malaysia

Elias Zerhouni, President, Global Research & Development, Sanofi-aventis

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