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Rachel Ramoni is chief research and development officer for the Department of Veterans Affairs, where she oversees 2,000 active projects at more than 100 sites.
Julie Makani is an associate professor in the Department of Haematology and Blood Transfusion at Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences in Dar es Salaam, where she helped Tanzania establish one of the world’s largest single-center study cohorts for sickle cell disease. She received the 2011 Royal Society Africa Award on the translation of genomics to health benefits.
Sergiu Pașca is a faculty member at Stanford University, where he is also the Uytengsu Director of the Stanford Brain Organogenesis Program. He is a pioneer in developing 3D brain-region-specific organoids, assembloids and cellular models of neuropsychiatric disease from stem cells.
Patrícia Brasil is head of the Laboratory of Acute Febrile Illness of the National Institute of Infectious Diseases Evandro Chagas, Fiocruz, and professor of tropical medicine and clinical research in the postgraduate programs of Fiocruz in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Jie Qiao is a reproductive physician and biologist who is President and Chief Physician of Peking University Third Hospital. She is also Director of the National Clinical Research Center on Obstetrics & Gynecology and a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. Additionally, Professor Qiao is President of China Women Doctors Association and Chair for the Reproductive Medical Society of Chinese Medical Doctor Association.
Serena Nik-Zainal is a CRUK Advanced Clinician Scientist and Honorary Consultant in Clinical Genetics. Her clinical work involves rare genetic disorders, and her research focuses on cancer genomics at the University of Cambridge, UK.
Eliezer Van Allen is an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, medical oncologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and associate member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.
Siddhartha Jaiswal is an assistant professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, where he is also a member of the Immunology Program and the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine.
Kristen Hege is corporate vice president of translational medicine at Celgene and a clinical professor at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She serves on the board of the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer and was recognized by FierceBiotech as one of the top women in biopharma.
Dena B. Dubal is a physician–scientist and the endowed chair in aging and neurodegenerative disease in the neurology department at the University of California, San Francisco. She has received awards from the National Institutes of Health and American Federation for Aging Research.
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.
