Jeffrey A. Whitsett, MD Co-Director, Perinatal Institute | Chief, Section of Neonatology, Perinatal and Pulmonary Biology Cincinnati Children's Hospital Research Focus: Cystic fibrosis research; lung morphogenesis, control of gene expression in the respiratory epithelium; gene delivery and therapy
Maria Barna, PhD Assistant Professor of Genetics and of Developmental Biology Stanford University Research Focus: How intricate control of gene expression and cell signaling is regulated on a minute-by-minute basis to give rise to the remarkable diversity of cell types and tissue morphology that form the living blueprints of developing organisms.
Ruth E. Gimeno, PhD Vice President, Diabetes Research and Clinical Investigation Lilly Research Laboratories, Eli Lilly and Company Career Focus: Encourage and support research in the field of diabetes, to rapidly diffuse acquired knowledge and to facilitate its application.
Yvette R. Seger, PhD Director of Science Policy FASEB (Foundation of American Societies of Experimental Biology) Career Focus: Science Policy affecting biomedical researchers and their work.
Danielle Berlin (Vicki Bautch Lab) AND Natalie Nielsen (Kathleen Caron Lab)
Carlos Patino Descovich (Scott Williams Lab) AND John Pawlak (Kathleen Caron Lab)
David G. Harrison, MD, FACC, FAHA | Gottschalk Lecturer Betty and Jack Bailey Chair in Cardiology | Director, Division of Clinical Pharmacology Vanderbilt University Medical Center Research Focus: Understanding how inflammation and the adaptive immune response contributes to hypertension.
Rejji Kuruvilla, PhD William D. Gill Professor John’s Hopkins University Research Focus: Development and functions of the sympathetic nervous system.
Karina Kinghorn (Vicki Bautch Lab) AND Amanda Smith (Larry Ostrowski Lab)
Maxence Nachury, PhD Associate Professor, Ophthalmology University of California San Francisco Research Focus: Primary cilium, a surface-exposed organelle required for vision, olfaction and developmental signaling and whose dysfunction leads to obesity, skeletal malformations and kidney cysts.