US National Awards: Scientific Advisory Council

Paul Alivisatos
President
University of Chicago

Jacqueline Barton
John G. Kirkwood and Arthur A. Noyes Professor Emirita of Chemistry
California Institute of Technology

Joanne Berger-Sweeney
President and Professor of Neuroscience
Trinity College

Thomas Cech
Winner, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1989)
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Distinguished Professor, Department of Biochemistry
University of Colorado Boulder

Steven Chu
Winner, Nobel Prize in Physics (1997)
Secretary, United States Department of Energy (2009-2013)
Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology
William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Physics
Stanford University

Mariette DiChristina
Professor of the Practice and Dean, College of Communication
Boston University

Nicholas B. Dirks (Chair)
President and Chief Executive Officer
New York Academy of Sciences

Laurie Glimcher
President and Chief Executive Officer
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Richard and Susan Smith Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School

Sharon Glotzer
Anthony C. Lembke Department Chair of Chemical Engineering
University of Michigan

Joseph Goldstein
Winner, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1985)
Regental Professor
Julie and Louis A. Beecherl, Jr. Distinguished Chair in Biomedical Research
Paul J. Thomas Chair in Medicine
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Gabriela González
Boyd Professor of Physics & Astronomy
Louisiana State University

Freeman Hrabowski, III
President Emeritus
University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Louis J. Ignarro
Winner, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1998)
Member, Brain Research Institute
Professor Emeritus, Molecular & Medical Pharmacology
University of California, Los Angeles

Roger Kornberg
Winner, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2006)
Mrs. George A. Winzer Professor in Medicine
Stanford University

Robert Langer
David H. Koch Institute Professor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Robert Lefkowitz
Winner, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2012)
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Medicine
Professor of Chemistry, Pathology, and Biochemistry
Duke University

Michal Lipson
Winner, Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists (2010)
Eugene Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering
Professor of Applied Physics
Columbia University

Szabolcs Márka
Winner, Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists (2011)
Walter O. LeCroy, Jr. Professor of Physics
Columbia University

Ruslan Medzhitov
Winner, Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists (2007)
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Sterling Professor of Immunobiology
Yale University

Assaf Naor
Winner, Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists (2012)
Henry Burchard Fine Professor of Mathematics
Princeton University

Monica Olvera de la Cruz
Lawyer Taylor Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Professor of Chemistry
Director, Center for Computation & Theory of Soft Materials
Northwestern University

Erin O'Shea
President
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Janelia Group Leader
HHMI Janelia Research Campus

Stanley Prusiner
Winner, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1997)
Director, Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Professor, Department of Neurology
University of California, San Francisco

Ellis Rubinstein 
President Emeritus
New York Academy of Sciences

Terrence Sejnowski
Investigator Emeriti, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Francis Crick Chair, Professor of Computational Neurobiology
Salk Institute for Biological Studies

K. Barry Sharpless
Winner, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2001)
W. M. Keck Professor of Chemistry
The Scripps Research Institute

Marc Tessier-Lavigne
Bing Presidential Professor
Stanford University

George Whitesides
Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Research Professor Emeritus
Harvard University

Frank Wilczek
Winner, Nobel Prize in Physics (2004)
Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Huda Zoghbi
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Professor of Molecular and Human Genetics
Baylor College of Medicine