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Vijay Sankaran is a practicing pediatric hematologist and researcher at Boston Children’s Hospital, the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. His laboratory uses insights from human genetics to study blood cell production in health and disease.
Karishma Kaushik’s research at University of Pune focuses on chronic wound infections, from probing the complex wound infection microenvironment to enabling personalized therapeutic approaches. She is a recipient of the Ramalingaswami Re-entry Fellowship, a program funded by the Government of India to support the research of early-career scientists and their return to the country from abroad.
Takanori Takebe is an assistant professor at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and a professor at Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan. His research aims to develop mini organ technologies derived from human stem cells and use those in patients with rare congenital metabolic disorders.
Max Nieuwdorp is an internist, endocrinologist and vascular medicine specialist at Amsterdam University Medical Centers. He chairs the Diabetes Center there and is chief of the Department and Laboratory of Vascular Medicine.
Ami Bhatt is a physician-scientist and assistant professor of medicine and genetics at Stanford University. Her research deploys next-generation sequencing to explore host–microbiome interactions, including those in cancer.
Lars Zender is professor and chairman of internal medicine at University Hospital Tubingen in Germany. He has received many awards, including the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation.
Samra Turajlic is a consultant medical oncologist at the Royal Marsden National Health Service Foundation Trust and a clinician–scientist at the Francis Crick Institute.
Georgina V. Long is co-medical director of Melanoma Institute Australia and Chair of Melanoma Medical Oncology and Translational Research. She is the first woman president of the Society for Melanoma Research.
Eran Elinav is an immunologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel. He has earned many distinctions, including being named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation research scholar in 2017.
Kjersti Aagaard is a practicing maternal–fetal medicine obstetrician at Texas Children’s and Ben Taub Hospitals and a reproductive biologist at Baylor College of Medicine. She studies a myriad of aspects of the microbiome, including how it can influence pregnancy and the developing infant.
Rima Arnaout is an assistant professor of cardiology and a member of the University of California San Francisco Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute. She has received a Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Intercampus Research Award, as well as funding support from the US National Institutes of Health and the American Heart Association’s Institute for Precision Cardiovascular Medicine.
Kee Yuan Ngiam is the group chief technology officer at National University Health System, Singapore, and assistant professor at the School of Medicine of the National University of Singapore. His research focuses on the effects of using artificial intelligence in healthcare. He is the 2018 recipient of Singapore’s National Health IT Excellence Award, which recognizes individuals who advanced healthcare through innovation.
