David Baker

Director of the Institute for Protein Design

Melody Swartz

William B. Ogden Professor in the Institute for Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago

Dr. Hendrik Poinar

Evolutionary Biologist Specializing in Ancient DNA

Michael Archer

Paleontologist Michael Archer is working to bring back his favorite extinct animal: the Tasmanian tiger.

David Moinina Sengeh

Minister Of Basic and Senior Secondary Education & Chief Innovation Officer for the Government of Sierra Leone

Paul Snelgrove

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Tracey Goldstein

Virologist, Associate Director of One Health Institute & Co-Principal Investigator on The PREDICT Project

Dr. Denise Galloway

Cancer Researcher & Scientific Director at Pathogen-Associated Malignancies Integrated Research Center

Dianne Newman

Microbiologist; Newman Lab at the California Institute of Technology

Luca Turin

Writer & Biophysicist

Dr. Marc Milstein

Scientist, Researcher, and Professional Speaker on Health and Wellness

Jennifer Doudna

Technology Co-Inventor of CRISPR- Cas9

Daniel Pauly

Daniel Pauly is the principal investigator at the Sea Around Us Project, which studies the impact of the world's fisheries on marine ecosystems. The software he's helped develop is used around the world to model and track the ocean.

Raven Baxter

Founder of STEMbassy, Science Communicator & Molecular Biologist Known as "Raven the Science Maven"

Shekinah Elmore

Oncologist; Dedicated to Pursuing Equity & Empathy in Oncology Care

Robert Schiestl, PhD

Professor of Pathology & Environmental Health Sciences at UCLA

Alan Aderem, PhD

Biologist; Co-Founder of the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB)

Kai W. Wucherpfennig, MD, PhD

Professor, Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School; Chair, Cancer Immunology & Virology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Aviv Regev

Director of the Cell Observatory & Cell Circuits Program at the Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard; Co-Chair of the International Human Cell Atlas project

Monsi Roman

Microbiologist & Program Manager for Centennial Challenges at NASA JSC

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Dr. Itiel Dror

Principal Consultant & Researcher at Cognitive Consultants International

Theodore Ho

Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford University

Mandë Holford

Professor in Chemistry at Hunter College & co-founder of RAISE-W

Dario Gil

Senior Vice President & Director of IBM Research at IBM

Emily Lakdawalla

Senior Editor at The Planetary Society

Dan Gibson

Vice President of DNA Technology

Penny Chisholm

Award-Winning Oceanographer & Professor, MIT

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Simon Lin

Chief Research Information Officer in The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital

Fabian Hemmert

Design Researcher & Professor of Interface and User Experience Design at University of Wuppertal

Piers Harding-Rolls

Director of Games Research for IHS Technology