The National Academy of Sciences has named Monica Feit as its next executive officer, effective Oct. 4, 2025. In this role, ...

In a city teeming with monuments, museums, and historical sites, it could be easy to overlook the National Academy of ...

Mary-Claire King is a geneticist at the University of Washington in Seattle. She grew up in Chicago and received her BA in Mathematics from Carleton College, her PhD in Genetics from UC Berkeley, and ...

Joseph L. Goldstein is Chair and Regental Professor of Department of Molecular Genetics at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. He and his colleague, Michael S. Brown, ...

Ronald Fagin's primary interest is in applying mathematical logic to computer science. His Ph.D. thesis created the field of finite model theory. He is best known for "Fagin's Theorem", which gives a ...

Helen M. Blau, Ph.D. is the Donald E. and Delia B. Baxter Foundation professor and Director of the Baxter Laboratory for Stem Cell Biology at Stanford University. Blau’s research area is regenerative ...

Henry M. Kronenberg is a physician/scientist in the Endocrine Unit at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School. Dr. Kronenberg received his BA from ...

Gene E. Robinson obtained his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1986 and joined the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1989. He holds a University Swanlund Chair and Center ...

Dr. Zhang is a molecular biologist focused on developing tools to better understand brain function and treat neurological and psychiatric disorders. He played an integral role in the creation of two ...

Michel Georges is Professor in Genetics and Genomics at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Liège in Belgium. He heads the Unit of Genetics of the GIGA Research Institute in the ...

David Baltimore has made key contributions to immunology, virology, cancer research, biotechnology and recombinant DNA research. From the beginning, Baltimore was interested in fundamental research ...

Over the course of her career, Professor Kimberly Prather has co-authored over 230 publications on a variety of topics related to atmospheric aerosols. Awards for her work include being an elected ...