The New York Academy of Sciences Annual Gala

Derya Akkaynak
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute; 2019 Blavatnik Regional Awards Finalist, Physical Sciences & Engineering

C. David Allis
Joy and Jack Fishman Professor, Tri-Institute Professsor, The Rockefeller University

Jeffrey Baker
Executive Managing Director, Savills Studley

Clancy Blair
Bezos Family Foundation Professor of Population Health; Director, Bezos Family Foundation Initiative, NYU Langone Medical Center

Len Blavatnik
Founder & Chairman, Access Industries and Blavatnik Family Foundation; Member, President’s Council and Honorary Member, The New York Academy of Sciences

Stacie Grossman Bloom
Vice Provost of Research, New York University

Mary C. Boyce
Dean of the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, Columbia University

Doug Buerkle
Chief Executive Officer, LTM Ventures

Karen Burke
Associate Clinical Professor of Dermatology, Mount Sinai Health System; Member, President’s Council and Honorary Life Governor, The New York Academy of Sciences

Robert B. Catell
Chairman, Advanced Energy Research and Technology Center, Stony Brook University; Former Treasurer, The New York Academy of Sciences

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

Andrew J. Chung
Chief Executive Officer, Innovo Property Group

Jenny Colombo
Vice President, Global Medical Affairs Functions, Takeda Pharmaceuticals

Jacqueline Corbelli
Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder, BrightLine; Governor, The New York Academy of Sciences

The Honorable France A. Córdova
Director, National Science Foundation

Henry Daaleman
President, Treasurer, Mushett Family Foundation

Igor Dikiy
Postdoctoral Fellow, Advanced Science Research Center at The Graduate Center, CUNY; 2019 Blavatnik Regional Awards Finalist, Chemistry

Maureen Doyle-Scharff
Senior Director, Worldwide Medical and Safety, Pfizer Inc

Laura Duvall
Assistant Professor, Columbia University; 2019 Blavatnik Regional Awards Winner, Life Sciences

Börje Ekholm
President and CEO, Ericsson

MaryEllen Elia
Senior Fellow, International Center for Leadership in Education; Governor, The New York Academy of Sciences

Tara Elia
Enterprise Account Executive, eightfold.ai

Netta Engelhardt
Assistant Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 2019 Blavatnik Regional Awards Winner, Physical Sciences & Engineering

Jonathan A. Epstein
Executive Vice Dean and Chief Scientific Officer, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

His Excellency Guillermo Férnandez de Soto
Permanent Representative of Colombia to the United Nations

Henrietta Fore
Executive Director, UNICEF

Cathy Franklin
Senior Global Real Estate Advisor, Corcoran

Elaine Fuchs
Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development, The Rockefeller University; Governor, The New York Academy of Sciences

Kanji Fujiki
Executive Director, Science and Technology in Society Forum

Ann Gabriel
Senior Vice President, Global Strategic Networks, Elsevier

Tamar Szabó Gendler
Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Yale University

Paul Glimcher
CEO, Data Cubed, Inc.; Director, The HUMAN Project, New York University

Michelle Gyles-McDonnough
Director, Sustainable Development Unit, Executive Office of the Secretary-General, United Nations

Paul Horn
New York University Distinguished Scientist in Residence; Former IBM Senior Vice President and Director of Research; Governor and Chair Emeritus, The New York Academy of Sciences

The Hon. Jerry MacArthur Hultin
Chair, Global Futures Group; Chair and Member, President’s Council, The New York Academy of Sciences

Marnie Imhoff
Senior Vice President for Development, The Rockefeller University; Former Governor, The New York Academy of Sciences

J. Larry Jameson
Executive Vice President, University of Pennsylvania for the Health System and Dean, Perelman School of Medicine

Kathrin Jansen
Senior Vice President and Head of Vaccine Research & Development, Pfizer Inc

Samantha Kappagoda
Co-Managing Member, Numerati® Partners, LLC; RiskEcon® Lab for Decision Metrics, Courant Institute for Mathematical Sciences NYU; Co-Founder, Risk Economics, Inc.

Karen Karlsrud
Violinist, New York City Ballet

Seema Kumar
Vice President, Innovation, Global Health, and Policy Communication, Johnson & Johnson; Governor, The New York Academy of Sciences

R. May Lee
Associate Vice Chancellor for Asia, New York University; Governor, The New York Academy of Sciences

Pablo Legorreta
Founder and CEO, Royalty Pharma; Governor, The New York Academy of Sciences

Bruce S. McEwen
Alfred E. Mirsky Professor of Immunology, Virology, and Microbiology, The Rockefeller University

Camille McGratty
Vice President, Silverstein Properties, Inc.

Ray Mikulich
Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer, Ridgeline Capital Group

Her Excellency Amina J. Mohammed
Deputy Secretary-General, United Nations; Member, President’s Council and Honorary Member, The New York Academy of Sciences

David K.A. Mordecai
Co-Managing Member, Numerati® Partners, LLC; RiskEcon® Lab for Decision Metrics, Courant Institute for Mathematical Sciences NYU; Co-Founder, Risk Economics, Inc.; Governor, The New York Academy of Sciences

Jeremy Moss
Senior Vice President, Silverstein Properties, Inc.

Masika Mughelli
Executive Director, Ovie Mughelli Foundation

Ovie Mughelli
Founder, Ovie Mughelli Foundation; Former Fullback for the Atlanta Falcons

Carla Nasca
Research Associate, The Rockefeller University; 2019 Blavatnik Regional Awards Finalist, Life Sciences

Ushma Neill
Vice President, Scientific Education & Training, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

His Excellency Koji Omi
Founder and Chairman, STS Forum; Former Minister of Finance and Former Minister of Science & Technology of Japan

Patricia Pedersen
Associate Vice President; University Director, Corporate & Foundation Relations, Yale University

Eve Pickering
Executive Director, Biostatistics, Pfizer Inc

William Platt
Philanthropist and Financial Planner

Beatrice Renault
Chief Strategy Officer, Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation

Wayne Riley
President, SUNY Downstate Medical Center

Eric Roberts
Founding Managing Director, Valence Advantage Life Sciences and the Caxton Advantage Fund

Richard Roberts
Nobel Laureate; Chief Scientific Officer, New England Biolabs; Member, President’s Council and Honorary Member, The New York Academy of Sciences

Lowell Robinson
Governor, The New York Academy of Sciences

Gerald Rosberg
Senior Executive Vice President, Columbia University

Ellis Rubinstein
President and CEO, The New York Academy of Sciences

Joanna Rubinstein
President and CEO, World Childhood Foundation USA

Laura Sachar
Managing Partner and Co-Founder, StarVest Partners; Governor, The New York Academy of Sciences

Philip Sawyer
Former President and CEO, Invuity, Inc.; Co-Founder, Helix Ventures

Brent Schimke
Chief Operating Officer, Data Cubed, Inc.

Yu Serizawa
Director General for International Affairs, Science and Technology in Society Forum

John Sexton
President Emeritus, New York University; Chair Emeritus and Honorary Member, The New York Academy of Sciences

Larry Silverstein
Chairman, Silverstein Properties, Inc.

Paul Stoffels
Executive Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer, Johnson & Johnson; International Governor, Member, President’s Council, and Honorary Member, The New York Academy of Sciences

Scott Strobel
Vice Provost for Science Initiatives; Vice President for West Campus Planning & Program Development, Yale University

Antonio Tataranni
Senior Vice President, R&D, Physiology & Life Sciences, PepsiCo

Craig B. Thompson
President and CEO, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Member, President’s Council, The New York Academy of Sciences

Nick Thomson
Senior Director, Medicinal Sciences, Pfizer Inc

Peter Thorén
Executive Vice President, Access Industries; Governor, The New York Academy of Sciences

Manuela Veloso
Head of Artificial Intelligence Research, JPMorgan; Governor, The New York Academy of Sciences

Jan Vilcek
Co-Founder, CEO and Chairman, The Vilcek Foundation; Research Professor, Department of Microbiology, NYU Langone Medicine; Honorary Member,  The New York Academy of Sciences

Marica Vilcek
Co-Founder, Vice Chairman and Secretary, The Vilcek Foundation

Leslie B. Vosshall
Robin Chemers Neustein Professor, The Rockefeller University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Liling Wan
Postdoctoral Fellow, The Rockefeller University; 2019 Blavatnik Regional Awards Finalist, Life Sciences

Torsten N. Wiesel
Nobel Laureate; President Emeritus, The Rockefeller University; Chair Emeritus, Member, President’s Council, and Honorary Member, The New York Academy of Sciences

Jeff Wilcox
Vice President for Engineering and Program Operations, Lockheed Martin

Matthew Yankowitz
Assistant Professor, University of Washington; 2019 Blavatnik Regional Awards Finalist, Physical Sciences & Engineering

Juntao Ye
Associate Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; 2019 Blavatnik Regional Awards Winner, Chemistry

Yaping Zang
Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Columbia University; 2019 Blavatnik Regional Awards Finalist, Chemistry

Nancy L. Zimpher
Senior Fellow, Director of the Center for Education Pipeline Systems Change, The Rockefeller Institute of Government; Chair Emerita and Honorary Member, The New York Academy of Sciences