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Voices of biotech

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  1. Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

    Ido Amit

  2. University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA

    David Baker

  3. University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

    Roger Barker

  4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

    Bonnie Berger, Sangeeta Bhatia, Kristala Prather, Aviv Regev & Feng Zhang

  5. Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

    Carolyn Bertozzi, Drew Endy & Stephen Quake

  6. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

    Alessandra Biffi & Kornelia Polyak

  7. Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

    Alessandra Biffi, Kornelia Polyak, Aviv Regev & Greg Verdine

  8. University of Trento, Trento, Italy

    Francesca Demichelis

  9. University of California, Berkeley, California, USA

    Jennifer Doudna

  10. University of California, San Diego, California, USA

    Steven F Dowdy

  11. Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, Germany

    Moritz Helmstaedter

  12. Microbiomas Foundation, Chia, Colombia

    Howard Junca

  13. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

    Carl June

  14. Amgen, Thousand Oaks, California, USA

    Sasha Kamb

  15. University of Massachusetts, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

    Anastasia Khvorova

  16. Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

    Dae-hyeong Kim & Jin-Soo Kim

  17. University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA

    Yamuna Krishnan

  18. The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain

    Melike Lakadamyali

  19. New York Genome Center, New York, New York, USA

    Tuuli Lappalainen

  20. Columbia University, New York, New York, USA

    Tuuli Lappalainen

  21. Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Sharon Lewin

  22. University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA

    James Liao

  23. University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

    Nick Loman

  24. KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

    Emma Lundberg

  25. Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA

    Lee Lynd

  26. John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK

    Cathie Martin

  27. Genentech, S., San Francisco, California, USA

    Ira Mellman

  28. RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Wako, Japan

    Atsushi Miyawaki

  29. Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

    Christine Mummery

  30. J. Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla, California, USA

    Karen Nelson

  31. Human Longevity, San Diego, California, USA

    Karen Nelson

  32. Gladstone Institutes, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA

    Jeanne Paz

  33. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    Pamela Peralta-Yahya

  34. ETH-Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

    Paola Picotti

  35. Beijing Proteome Research Center, Beijing, China

    Jun Qin

  36. Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA

    Jun Qin

  37. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, USA

    John A Rogers

  38. Ginkgo Bioworks, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Reshma Shetty

  39. Technical University of Denmark, Hørsholm, Denmark

    Morten Sommer & Tian Zhang

  40. Imperial College London, London, UK

    Molly Stevens

  41. IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, New York, USA

    Gustavo Stolovitzky

  42. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA

    Gustavo Stolovitzky

  43. RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Kobe, Japan

    Masayo Takahashi

  44. Biodynamic Optical Imaging Center, Peking University, Beijing, China

    Fuchou Tang

  45. Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK

    Sarah Teichmann

  46. Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, Strasbourg, France

    Maria-Elena Torres-Padilla

  47. Institute of Epigenetics and Stem Cells, Helmholtz Centre, Munich, Germany

    Maria-Elena Torres-Padilla

  48. International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Ibadan, Kenya

    Leena Tripathi

  49. Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Bangalore, India

    Praveen Vemula

  50. Warp Drive Bio, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

    Greg Verdine

  51. FogPharma, Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA

    Greg Verdine

  52. Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen, Germany

    Frank Vollmer

  53. iCarbonX, Shenzhen, China

    Jun Wang

  54. Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, Singapore

    Jackie Y Ying

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Amit, I., Baker, D., Barker, R. et al. Voices of biotech. Nat Biotechnol 34, 270–275 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.3502

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