Dr. Isaacs is a highly-cited researcher with an immense passion for pushing the frontier of chemistry as well as fostering the next generation of chemists to carry on their own searches for new exciting molecules. He takes his position as an educator to heart by supporting all of his students’ own ...

Worldwide, seasonal influenza outbreaks amount to between 3-5 million cases of severe illness, with 250-300 thousand of those cases resulting in deaths, according to the World Health Organization. Dr. Peter Palese has spent the last four decades as a virologist researching various aspects of the inf ...

A recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, Dr. Schleier-Smith combines a desire to push the frontiers of knowledge with a keen awareness of the power of fundamental research to transform technology. Her track record includes surpassing the standard quantum limit on the stability of an a ...

Dr. Mya Breitbart, Associate Professor in the College of Marine Science at the University of South Florida is identifying new disease-causing viruses in marine animals by studying chronic infections, investigating the causes of mortality events in captive and wild marine mammals, and rapidly respond ...

Dr. Sheila Baker, Assistant Professor in the Departments of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the University of Missouri, is using science and technology to find solutions to the missing links so that technology can and will equal progress. Technological advancement is no longer forward progress ...

Dr. Claire Snyder of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health aims to transform cancer care by making patients' well being just as much a part of treatment monitoring as laboratory tests, imaging studies, and other clinical information. Dr. Snyde ...

The impact of Dr. Harel's research is to inform the design of novel materials with unprecedented functionality. While his research is fundamental, it has far reaching consequences for controlling matter at the molecular length scale. The structures of atoms and molecules are well-understood, but h ...

Dr. Zaki's highly technical research is grounded in real-world applications, especially in bioinformatics, and social and citation networks. For example, in bioinformatics tremendous gains are possible when scientists simultaneously mine the data from genomes, protein structures and networks, metabo ...

Dr. Amy Cerato, Rapp Foundation Presidential Professor of the University of Oklahoma's Civil Engineering and Environmental Science Department is designing, testing and implementing resilient and sustainable foundation systems that will anchor our nation's infrastructure and allow it to withstand a ...

Dr. Shadel's research presents an entirely new approach to mitochondria's impact upon aging and disease. Therefore, he hopes to augment mitochondria in a way that researchers will improve the healthspan for individuals of all ages. Dr. Shadel's research has expansive ramifications for our society an ...

Dr. Bernard collaborates with researchers around the world in a number of distinct teams which tackle particular research questions. While his approach is unorthodox, as he starts at the bottom and builds up the analysis from the level of the firm rather than modeling industries and countries, he is ...

In addition to his revolutionary work with food justice and policy, Dr. Popkin manages the only global team that has the skills to study the food system from the factory all the way to individual diet and ultimately health. He is the global leader in working with countries on sugary beverage and jun ...

Aside from the specific questions Dr. Sokolsky's research may help answer, his work also offers a glimpse into the amazing unknown processes of our universe. These subatomic particles bombard the Earth from space and some of them carry energies millions of times higher than anything that can be crea ...

He and his team develop experiments that explore phenomena like the colonization of the gut by microbes and the mechanics of cellular membranes in order to illuminate general principles governing how these complex systems function. Microscopy Methods: Dr. Parthasarathy and his team develop ...

Compressed sensing is significant because it skips the process of measuring the entirety of the signal as was traditionally done in normal signal processing and acquires compression automatically. For example, instead of measuring every pixel in a picture taken by a digital camera in order to proces ...

Our work examines visual attention – our ability to look at or attend to objects in a visual scene. We view these acts of attention as mental actions whose goal is to inform subsequent decisions. For instance, when we attend to a traffic light at an intersection, we seek to reduce the uncertainty ...

While Dr. Hayward is motivated by fundamental principles, there are many areas in which his research may have a lasting impact. Dr. Hayward and his team expect their technology to be used to create materials for biomedicine that may allow faster healing, less invasive procedures, or more effective i ...

The importance of Dr. Rimm's research is two-fold. His fundamental research may lead to prevention and how to use cutting-edge tools to assess biomarkers in bacteria, blood, or DNA to identify early markers of disease to direct at-risk individuals towards modifiable diet and lifestyle choices and di ...

Dr. Chris Link of the University of Colorado is the molecular geneticist that designed the original models for working with C. elegans in order to study disease pathologies. Dr Link explains that "the best ideas are obvious in retrospect" and this concept has been foundational for him as a scientist ...

Dr. Klessig trained as a graduate student under Nobel Laureate James Watson. His early research on human adenoviruses, which provided some of the first evidence for split genes and RNA splicing (Klessig 1977), began an incredible career of discovery and innovation. Beginning in the early 1980's, Dr. ...

Dr. Richards' research lays a foundation for addressing many of the pressing questions we have had about black holes and our universe since we were kids. Dr. Richards' research on black holes, and the field of astronomy in general, serves as an inspiration for budding young scientists around the wor ...

Over the past year, Dr. Goldenring led a group of physicians and scientists to impact the care of infants with congenital diarrheal disease without diagnosis. By employing state-of-the-art genomic sequencing analysis of the affected children and their parents, his group has successfully identified t ...

Research at the HLP lab begins with the development of theoretical mathematical frameworks. These models are implemented and tested in behavioral and brain imaging experiments --theory and experimentation inform each other, leading to the incremental refinement of both. A central component in this w ...

Since 1988, Dr. Innes has made great progress towards understanding the basic molecular mechanisms that plants use to detect pathogens. He and his team are now applying this knowledge to develop crop plants that are resistant to specific diseases. In fact, Dr. Innes' laboratory was the first to esta ...

Dr. Greg Martin, Boyce Schulze Downey Professor at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research and Professor of Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology at Cornell University, is studying the interactions between pathogens and the plant immune system to uncover information about how pathogens i ...