Scientists Interviewed
Jerry Adams Jerry Adams, currently Professor and Joint Head of Molecular Genetics of Cancer Division of The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute ...
Bruce Alberts Bruce Alberts, currently Editor-in-chief of Science, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysic at the University of California ...
Charles David Allis Charles David Allis (born March 22, 1951) is an American molecular biologist, and is currently the Joy and Jack Fishman ...
James Allison James Allison was born in Alice, Texas in the United States. He studied at the University of Texas in Austin, ...
Leif Andersson Leif Andersson is a professor in Functional Genomics at Uppsala University and guest professor in Molecular Animal Genetics at the ...
Werner Arber Werner Arber, (born June 3, 1929, Gränichen, Switz.), Swiss microbiologist, corecipient with Daniel Nathans and Hamilton Othanel Smith of the ...
Michael Ashburner Michael Ashburner, a leader in Drosophila Genetics and bioinformatics, received his B.A. (1964), M.A. (1968), Ph.D. (1968) and Sc.D. (1978) ...
Alan Ashworth Alan Ashworth is President of the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Sr. Vice President for Cancer Services ...
John Atkins Dr. John Atkins is a research professor at University college Cork and a member of the Royal Irish Academy since ...
Cori Bargmann Cori Bargmann is an American neurobiologist and geneticist whose research focuses on C. elegans genetics and the neural pathways controlling ...
David Baulcombe David Baulcombe, currently Royal Society Research Professor and Regius Professor of Botany at the University of Cambridge, plant scientist and ...
Yasmine Belkaid Yasmine Belkaid is a renowned scientist whose research focuses on the relationship between microbes and the immune system. She is ...
David Bentley David Bentley, molecular biologist and geneticist, is currently Vice President and Chief Scientist of DNA Sequencing at Illumina, Inc., a ...
Georgio Bernardi Giorgio Bernardi received an MD degree from the University of Padua (Italy) and a degree in Physics from the University ...
Giuseppe Bertani Giuseppe Bertani, field of speciality: molecular genetics and bacteriophage. Doctor of Natural Science from University of Milan. Honorary degrees, Dr, ...
Adrian Bird Adrian Bird is a geneticist and Buchanan Professor of Genetics at the University of Edinburgh. He has spent much of ...
J Michael Bishop Dr. J. Michael Bishop is an immunologist and microbiologist and 1989 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine for his work ...
Elizabeth Blackburn Elizabeth Blackburn is a leader in the study of telomere function and biology. She earned her B.Sc. (1970) and M.Sc. ...
Michael Botchan Michael Botchan, serves as Professor and Co-chair Department of Molecular and Cell Biology University of California, Berkeley. He received his ...
David Botstein David Botstein is a prominent geneticist whose advocacy for gene mapping was crucial in laying the groundwork for the Human ...
Elbert Branscomb Elbert Branscomb received his B.A. in physics from Reed College (1957) and his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Syracuse University ...
May Brenner May Brenner was married to Sydney Brenner from December 1952 until her death in January 2010. She was engaged in ...
Sydney Brenner Sydney Brenner is a pioneer in the field of molecular biology. He was born in South Africa in 1927 and ...
Leo Brizuela Leonardo Brizuela conducted his graduate research in the laboratory of Dr. David Beach at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (1985-1988). His ...
Jurgen Brosius Jurgen Brosius is a molecular geneticist and evolutionary biologist. He was professor and director of the Institute of Experimental Pathology ...
Ann Burgess Ann Burgess is the Director Emeritus of the Biology Core Curriculum. She earned her B.S. in chemistry from UW-Madison and ...
Richard Burgess Richard Burgess is a geneticist who has been an important figure in cancer, microbial, and molecular research. He earned his ...
Carlos Bustamante Carlos D. Bustamante is a statistical population geneticist interested in human and primate evolution, impacts of domestication on genetic architecture, ...
John Cairns John Cairns, physician and molecular biologist, received his degree in medicine from Oxford University in 1946. Cairns worked as a ...
Allan Campbell Allan Campbell, the Barbara Kimball Browning Professor in the School of Humanities and Science at Stanford University. Best known for ...
Judith Campisi Dr. Campisi received a PhD in biochemistry from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and completed her ...
Charles Cantor Charles Cantor is a molecular geneticist who, in conjunction with David Schwartz, developed pulse field gel electrophoresis for very large ...
Mario Capecchi Mario R. Capecchi, Ph.D., is a scientist and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at the Eccles Institute of Human ...
Don Caspar Donald Caspar, structural biologist and crystallographer, is a professor emeritus of Biological Sciences at the Institute of Molecular Biophysics at ...
Aravinda Chakravarti Aravinda Chakravarti received his Ph.D. in Human Genetics from the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Texas ...
Arthur Chovnick Arthur Chovnick, Drosophilia geneticist, molecular and cell biologist, obtained a Ph.D. in genetics in 1953 from Ohio State University. He ...
Michele Clamp Michele Clamp has a first degree in Physics from the University of Oxford and then escaped to Manchester University for ...
Bayard Clarkson Bayard Clarkson is a cancer clinical researcher who trained at both Yale and Columbia University. In 1968, while Dr. Watson ...
Hans Clevers Hans Clevers obtained his MD degree in 1984 and his PhD degree in 1985 from the University Utrecht, the Netherlands. ...
Francis Collins Francis Collins earned a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Virginia (1970), a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Yale ...
Suzanne Cory Suzanne Cory, is currently Director of The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI), joint head (with Professor ...
David Cox David Cox received B.A. and M.S. degrees from Brown University and M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Washington. ...
Myers & Cox David Cox received B.A. and M.S. degrees from Brown University and M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Washington. ...
Jim Dahlberg Jim Dahlberg received his BA 1962, Haverford College, Pennsyvlania, completed his PhD 1966, University of Chicago. Dr. Dahlberg was a ...
Eric Davidson Eric Davidson was a developmental biologist at the California Institute of Technology. Davidson was best known for his pioneering work ...
Titia De Lange Dr. Titia de Lange is the Leon Hess professor and director of the Anderson Center for Cancer Research at Rockefeller ...
Charles Delisi Charles DeLisi did pioneering work in theoretical and mathematical immunology. He received his Ph.D. in physics and did postdoctoral studies ...
Paul Doty Paul Doty (1920-2011), biophysical chemist and activist was an emeritus professor at Harvard University in the Faculty of Arts and ...
Jennifer Doudna Dr. Jennifer Doudna is a biochemist and 2020 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry. She is also the Li Ka Shing ...
Renato Dulbecco Renato Dulbecco was born in Catanzaro,Italy, in 1914. He studied medicine in Turin before joining the Italian Resistance movement against ...
Ian Dunham Working at the Sanger Centre, Dunham heads the team, which sequenced human chromosome 22. He is interested in uses of ...
Ashley Dunn Ashley Dunn is currently a Senior Consulting Scientist and member of the Scientific Advisory Board at the Cryptome Pharmaceuticals Ltd., ...
Jan Eisenmann
Gerard Evan Dr. Gerard Evan is a biologist and, since May 2022, has served as Professor of Cancer Biology at King’s College ...
Gerry Fink Gerald Fink, geneticist, changed the field of molecular yeast biology. He is a professor of genetics at MIT, a founding ...
Ernst Peter Fischer Ernst Peter Fischer, Professor of the History of Science at the University of Constance since 1994. He studied mathematics and ...
Errol Friedberg Errol Friedberg currently serves as the Senator Betty and Dr. Andy Andujar Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of ...
Asao Fujiyama Asao Fujiyama, professor Principles of Informatics Research Division at National Institute of Informatics and professor of Comparative Genomics Laboratory at ...
King & Futreal Dr. Mary-Claire King is a geneticist that was the first to show that breast cancer can be inherited due to ...
Raymond Gesteland Raymond Gesteland, biologist, has made progress in describing essential mechanisms for controlled gene expression. His research on recoding provides insight ...
Mary Jane Gething Mary-Jane Gething, biochemist is Head of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Melbourne where she ...
Richard Gibbs Richard A. Gibbs is currently the Director of the Human Genome Sequencing Center at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) and ...
Charles Gilbert Charles Gilbert is a Head of Laboratory of Neurobiology at Rockefeller University and Arthur and Janet Ross Professor of Neuroscience ...
Walter Gilbert Walter Gilbert, molecular biology pioneer, physicist, biochemist, entrepreneur and Nobel laureate. He received his Bachelor of Art degree from Harvard ...
Raymond Gosling Raymond Gosling arrived at King’s lab in 1949 to work as a research student. Under the direction of Rosalind Franklin, ...
Daniel Gottschling Dr. Daniel Gottschling is an internationally recognized scientist working to elucidate the aging process in eukaryotic cells. Over the past ...
Eric Green Eric Green received his B.S. from the University of Wisconsin (1981) and his M.D. and Ph.D. from Washington University School ...
Philip Green Philip Green is a professor of genome sciences, an adjunct professor of the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the ...
Carol Greider Carolyn “Carol” Widney Greider was born in San Diego, California on April 15th, 1961. She received her B.A. in Biology ...
Daniel Haber Dr. Daniel Haber is the director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, a professor of oncology at Harvard Medical ...
Beatrice Hahn Dr. Beatrice Hahn is a virologist, biomedical researcher, and professor of Medicine and Microbiology at the Perelman School of Medicine ...
David Haig David Haig is an evolutionary biologist, geneticist, and professor in Harvard University’s Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology. His research ...
Edward Harlow Dr. Edward Harlow received his PhD from the Imperial Cancer Research Fund Laboratories in London. He currently serves as a ...
Tim Harris Tim Harris is a molecular biologist, biochemist, geneticist, and business leader in the biotechnology industry. He completed his undergraduate and ...
David Haussler David Haussler (born 1953) is an American bioinformatician known for his work leading the team that assembled the first human ...
Edith Heard Dr. Edith Heard is a biologist, geneticist, and the Director General of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory. She is also ...
Winship Herr Winship Herr, director of the University of Lausanne School of Biology and member of EMBO. He earned his Bachelor of ...
Jim Hicks James Hicks is a pioneer in the field of yeast genetics. He earned his Ph.D. degree in molecular biology and ...
Klar, Strathern & Hicks Amar Klar, is a leading yeast geneticist, concerned with the molecular biology of gene silencing and mating-type switching. Klar came ...
LaDeana Hillier LaDeana W. Hillier joined Robert Waterston’s lab as a bioinformatician for the C. elegans genome project in 1989, and, in ...
Mahlon Hoagland Mahlon Hoagland, a molecular biologist who was one of the discoverer of the transfer ribonucleic acid - tRNA. He received ...
Susan Hockfield Susan Hockfield is a neuroscientist whose research focuses on brain development and glioma, pioneering the use of monoclonal antibody technology ...
Leroy Hood Leroy Hood, a leading scientist in molecular biotechnology and genomics, received his M.D. from Johns Hopkins Medical School (1964) and ...
Nancy Hopkins Nancy Hopkins is a developmental biologist and the Amgen, Inc. Professor of Biology at MIT. Working under Jim Watson and ...
H. Robert Horvitz H. Robert Horvitz received his Ph.D. in 1974 from Harvard University, under the tutelage of Jim Watson. He joined the ...
Meritxell Huch Meritxell Huch is a stem cell biologist and director at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics ...
Jim Hudson Jim Hudson scientist and businessmen who founded Research Genetics in 1987, the company that made synthetic DNA. He received a ...
Kay Jamison Kay Jamison is a clinical psychologist and writer, professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She ...
Baulcombe & Jorgensen David Baulcombe, currently Royal Society Research Professor and Regius Professor of Botany at the University of Cambridge, plant scientist and ...
Jerzy Jurka Jerzy Jurka was a computational and molecular biologist. He served as the assistant director of research at the Linus Pauling ...
Hanahan & Kalluri Raghu Kalluri is chairman and professor of the Department of Cancer Biology and the director of the Metastasis Research Center ...
Katalin Kariko Dr. Katalin Kariko is a biochemist and adjunct professor of neurosurgery at the University of Pennsylvania. She won the 2023 ...
Carl Kaufmann Carl Kaufmann is a son of Berwind Petersen Kaufmann, an important American biologist and botanist. Berwind Petersen Kaufmann was the ...
James Kent Jim Kent is a research scientist at the University of California, Santa Cruz's Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering. After ...
Mary-Claire King *in progress*
Amar Klar Amar Klar, is a leading yeast geneticist, concerned with the molecular biology of gene silencing and mating-type switching. Klar came ...
Aaron Klug Aaron Klug is chemist and biophysicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in chemistry. After completing his BSc at University ...
Eugene Koonin Eugene Koonin is a biologist and Senior Investigator at the National Center for Biotechnology Information. He is a recognized expert ...
David Kurtz One year after completing his Ph.D. at Columbia University, David Kurtz, molecular biologist joined Mike Wigler at the Cold Spring ...
James Lake James Lake, geneticist and molecular biologist studies genomics, bioinformatics, and molecular evolution. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of ...
Eric Lander Eric Lander earned his A.B. in mathematics from Princeton University (1978) and D.Phil. in mathematics as a Rhodes Scholar at ...
David Lane David Lane, immunologist, is the Director of the Cancer Research UK Transformation Research Group at the University of Dundee, Department ...
Edward Lewis Edward B. Lewis (1918-2004) was a renowned leader in genetics and Drosophila development research. He received his Ph.D. from the ...
Peter Little Peter Little is a bioinformatics researcher, professor of medical biochemistry and the head of the School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular ...
Scott Lowe Dr. Lowe is a member and chair of the Cancer Biology and Genetics Program at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, ...
Tom Maniatis Tom Maniatis, molecular biologist, is a leader in the field of recombinant DNA. At Vanderbilt University he completed his Ph.D. ...
Robert Martiennsen Dr. Robert Martiennsen is a plant biologist, Howard Hughes Medical Institute-Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation investigator, and professor at Cold ...
Dan Martle
Joan Massague Joan Massague is a world leader in research on signaling pathways and transcriptional programs that regulate normal cell behavior and ...
Ernst Mayr Ernst Mayr has been universally acknowledged as the leading evolutionary biologist of the twentieth century. He earned his Ph.D. in ...
Matthew Meselson Matthew Meselson earned his Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago in 1951 and from the California Institute of Technology ...
Barbara Meyer Dr. Barbara Meyer is a genetics, genomics and development professor in the molecular and cell biology department at University of ...
Jeffrey Miller Jeffrey H. Miller, Ph.D., is the Distinguished Professor of the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics at the University ...
Lewis Miller Lewis Miller is an Australian artist and winner of the Archibald Prize for portraiture (1998). Lewis studied painting at the ...
Karin Moelling Karin Moelling currently retired professor, still affiliated with the University of Zurich and the Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin. ...
Peter Moore Peter Moore currently is Sterling Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University. He ...
Michael Morgan Michael Morgan, currently professor emeritus of biology, specialized in plant ecology and bioclimatology. He earned his BA from Butler University, ...
David E. Muller David E. Muller was born in 1924 in Austin, Texas. He is the son of Hermann J. Muller, who received ...
Christine Mummery Dr. Christine Mummery is a professor of developmental biology at Leiden University and head of the Department of Anatomy and ...
Richard Myers Richard Myers, biochemist and geneticist, is currently Director of the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology in Huntsville, Alabama. Following his undergraduate ...
Kim Nasmyth Kim Nasmyth is the Head of the Biochemistry Department of the University of Oxford and the Whitley Professor of Biochemistry. ...
Timothy Nilsen Timothy Nilsen is Professor Emeritus at Case Western University. He earned a B.S. in Biology from Fordham University; an M.A. ...
Harry Noller Harry Noller, is best known for his work on on ribosomal RNA structure and function, currently the director of the ...
Herr & Noller Winship Herr, director of the University of Lausanne School of Biology and member of EMBO. He earned his Bachelor of ...
Tomoka Ohta Tomoka Ohta is a scientist and Professor Emeritus of the National Institute of Genetics. Ohta works on population genetics and ...
Maynard Olson Maynard V. Olson received his Bachelor’s degree in chemistry from California Institute of Technology and Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry from ...
Svante Paabo Svante Paabo was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1955, later attending the University of Uppsala from 1975-1981 and finishing his ...
Stelios Papadopoulos Stelios Papadopoulos is a scientist, investor, and entrepreneur best known for his involvement in biotechnology and co-founding the cancer research ...
Ari Patrinos Ari Patrinos, currently is a president of Synthetic Genomics, Inc. He is best known for his leading roles in the ...
Ulf Pettersson Ulf Pettersson, geneticist and virologist, is the vice-president of the University of Upssala in Sweden, a professor of medical genetics, ...
Ron Plasterk Ronald Plasterk, is a Dutch politician of the Labour Party and successful scientist and molecular genetics. He studied biology at ...
Mark Ptashne Mark Ptashne holds the Ludwig Chair of Molecular Biology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. A member of ...
Friedberg & Radman Errol Friedberg currently serves as the Senator Betty and Dr. Andy Andujar Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of ...
Mark Ratner Mark Ratner is a materials chemist, whose work focuses on the interplay between molecular structure and molecular properties. This includes ...
Rauscher Rauscher
Martin Reese Martin Reese is the Co-founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Chairman of the Board of Omicia. Dr. Martin Reese is an ...
Alex Rich Alexander Rich (b. 1924), biologist and biophysicist, is the William Thompson Sedgwick Professor of Biophysics and Biochemistry, at the Massachusetts ...
Matt Ridley Matt Ridley is a journalist and a leading science writer. He earned his Ph.D. in zoology from Oxford University in ...
Bruce Roe Bruce Roe is a George Lynn Cross Research Professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Oklahoma. He graduated ...
Gerald Rubin Gerald Rubin is a geneticist, molecular and cell biologist. As Director of the Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project, he led the ...
Nicoletta Sacchi Nicoletta Sacchi, Ph.D., is a Professor and Distinguished Member of the Department of Cancer Biology at the Roswell Park Cancer ...
Fred Sanger Frederick Sanger, OM, CH, CBE, FRS (born 13 August 1918) is an English biochemist and twice a Nobel laureate in ...
Jonathan Sebat Dr. Sebat is a leader in the field of psychiatric genetics and an expert in the genomic analysis of disease ...
James Shapiro James Shapiro is a biologist, expert in bacteria genetics and a professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology ...
Lucy Shapiro Lucy Shapiro (b. 1940, New York City) is a developmental biologist and Professor Emeritus of Developmental Biology at Stanford University ...
Phillip Sharp Phillip A. Sharp, an Institute Professor at MIT, is a member of the Department of Biology and the Koch Institute ...
James Sherley James Sherley is a scientist on the forefront of adult stem-cell research. He earned his B.A. from Harvard University and ...
Charles Sherr Charles Sherr earned his joint M.D./Ph.D. degree from New York University in 1973. He is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute ...
Anna Marie Skalka Anna Marie Skalka, microbiologist, molecular biologist and geneticist is Senior Vice President for Basic Science and director of the Institute ...
Merilyn Sleigh Merilyn Sleigh is a pharmacologist, molecular biologist and dean in the Department of Life Sciences at the University of New ...
Hamilton Smith Hamilton Smith is a U.S. microbiologist born Aug. 23, 1931, New York, N.Y. Smith received an A.B. degree in mathematics ...
Eddy & Snyder Sean Eddy is a Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and of Applied Mathematics as Harvard University. His research interests ...
Jaenisch & Solter Davor Solter is a developmental biologist, particularly known for his pioneering work on mammalian genomic imprinting. He is Emeritus Member ...
Joan Steitz Joan Steitz is a prominent molecular biologist who earned her Ph.D. under Jim Watson at Harvard University in 1967. She ...
Tom Steitz Thomas Steitz, born August 23, 1940, is a Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale ...
David Stewart David Stewart has an extensive background in genetics, biochemistry, organic chemistry, and biotechnology. Before he joined the Cold Spring Harbor ...
Bruce Stillman Molecular biologist and biochemist, Bruce Stillman, received his Ph.D. from the John Curtain School of Medical Research at the Australian ...
Jeff Strathern Jeffrey Strathern, a leading yeast geneticist, obtained his Ph.D. from the Molecular Biology Institute at the University of Oregon in ...
Klar & Strathern Amar Klar and Jeff Strathern worked together in the Cold Spring Harbor Yeast group from 1977 till 1984 where they ...
John Sulston John Sulston was born in Buckinghamshire on 24 March 1942, the son of a Church of England minister and a ...
Waclaw Szybalski Waclaw Szybalski is an authority on molecular biology, genetics and microbiology. He earned his Ph.D. at the Gdansk Institute of ...
Marc Tessier-Lavigne Marc Tessier-Lavigne, a pioneer in developmental neurobiology, is currently president of The Rockefeller University in New York, where he heads ...
Sarah Tishkoff Dr. Sarah Tishkoff is the David and Lyn Silfen Professor in the Department of Genetics and Biology at the University ...
Alfred Tissières Alfred Tissières was a biologist, biochemist and geneticist. He received his Ph.D. from Cambridge for his work at the Molteno ...
Tim Tully Tim Tully is a molecular geneticist, interested in finding the genetic and biological basis of memory in order to better ...
Bishop & Varmus Dr. J. Michael Bishop is an immunologist and microbiologist and 1989 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine for his work ...
Harold Varmus Dr. Harold Varmus is a Nobel Prize-winning scientist who was director of the National Institutes of Health from 1993 to ...
J. Craig Venter J. Craig Venter, biologist and genomic research pioneer, was born in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1946. Following military service ...
Peter Vogt Peter K. Vogt works at Scripps Research, La Jolla, California. His fundamental studies on oncogenic avian retroviruses led to the ...
Nicholas Wade Nicholas Wade received a B.A. in natural sciences from King's College in Cambridge (1964). He was deputy editor of (italics) ...
Jonathan Warner Jonathan Warner is currently a Buchler Professor of Transgenic Medicine in Department of Cell Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine. ...
Robert Waterston Dr. Robert Waterston is a biologist best known for his involvement in the Human Genome Project. He has also served ...
James D. Watson A member of the Time 100 ‘Century’s Greatest Minds’, Dr. James Watson’s life in science has taken him from the ...
Robert Weinberg Robert "Bob" Weinberg is Daniel K. Ludwig Professor for Cancer Research and director of the Ludwig Cancer Center at MIT, ...
Reed Wickner Dr. Reed Wickner is a yeast geneticist. Wickner graduated from Cornell University with a BA degree in 1962. He then ...
Evelyn Witkin Evelyn Witkin is a leading bacterial geneticist. She earned her Ph.D. in 1947 with Theodosius Dobzhansky at Columbia University for ...
James Wyngaarden James B. Wyngaarden is a medical doctor, biochemist and medical science advisor. He served as director of the National Institutes ...