Lynne E. Maquat, PhD Lowell Orbison Endowed Chair and Professor University of Rochester Research Focus: Utilization of biochemistry, molecular biology, structural biology, genome editing, transcriptomics, proteomics and computational biology to study RNA metabolism in human health and disease.
Eva N. Grayck, MD Professor of Pediatrics – Critical Care Medicine University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus Research Focus: The role of redox regulated signaling pathways in the contribution of pulmonary vascular diseases.
James Olzmann, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Nutrition Sciences & Toxicology University of California - Berkeley Research Focus: Understanding how lipid droplet proteome is established and regulated, howe lipid droplet interact and communicate with other organelles, and the potential to manipulate lipotoxic pathways to therapeutically target cancer.
Paul Kubes, PhD Professor, Physiology & Pharmacology | Director, Calvin Phoebe & Joan Snyder Institute for Chronic Disease University of Calgary Research Focus: To directly visualize the roles of immune cells during inflammation, infection and tissue injury.
Andy Y. Shih, PhD Associate Professor, Center for Developmental Biology and Regenerative Medicine Seattle Children’s Research Institute – University of Washington Research Focus: The small blood vessels that deliver oxygen and nutrients to all reaches of the brain. Study how blood vessels grow, degrade and respond to injury from birth to senescence.