Igor Brodsky, PhD, Robert R Marshak Professor and Chair of Pathobiology, University of Pennsylvania, “Understanding cytokine communication networks in the formation and function of intestinal granulomas during enteric bacterial infection”.
Lixing Yang, PhD, Assistant Professor, Ben May Department for Cancer Research, Assistant Professor, Human Genetics, University of Chicago, “The causes and consequences of somatic structural variations in human cancer”.
Nachum Ulanovsky, PhD, Weizmann Institute of Science, Professor of Brain Sciences, Head of the Center for Learning, Memory and Cognition, “Neural codes for natural behaviors in flying bats”.
Alan Cowman, PhD, Professor and Acting Director, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, “Discovery and development of novel antimalarials and their use as chemical tools to discover new biology of the malaria parasite a Pharma/Academic collaboration”.
Alan Cohen, PhD, Biological Complexity and Health Longevity Associate Professor of Environmental Health Sciences (in the Robert N Butler Columbia Aging Center), Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, “What is aging, what is health, and how do they relate to each other?”.
Jason Shepherd, PhD, Jon M Huntsman Presidential Endowed Chair, Department of Neurobiology, Biochemistry, Ophthalmology, and Visual Sciences, University of Utah, “Virus-like intercellular communication in the nervous system”.
Viviana Gradinaru, PhD, Lois and Victor Troendle Chair and Professor of Neuroscience and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, “Moving beyond barriers: gene delivery across the blood-brain barrier for precise, noninvasive study and repair of nervous systems”.
