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The traditional way of taking a drug, such as a pill or injection, often results in plasma drug levels that cycle between too high and too low. To better maintain drug levels in the effective range, scientists have developed a variety of systems that release drugs at a steady rate for days or even years….
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George Shultz is one of the most distinguished public servants in American history. He has also had a distinguished career in academia and business. Secretary Shultz is one of only two people to hold four different federal cabinet posts, including secretary of labor under President Nixon and secretary of state under President Reagan. In both…
Dr. Stadelmann is a Professor and Deputy Director of the Institute for Neuropathology at the University of Göttingen Medical Center. Her studies focus on inflammatory diseases of the central nervous system including multiple sclerosis and neuromyelitis optica. She is particularly interested in understanding which pathological events correlate with disease progression. Learn more about Dr. Stadelmann’s…
Evelyn Witkin earned her BA in zoology from NYU in 1941 and started her graduate studies at Columbia University where she joined Dr. Theodosius Dobzhansky’s laboratory. She was interested in studying Drosophila genetics, but her interests changed when she realized that bacteria also have genes. She went to CSH in the summer of 1944 to start her…
Sarah Tishkoff studied anthropology and genetics as an undergraduate at the University of California, Berkeley. She received her PhD in genetics from Yale University and was a post-doctoral fellow at Pennsylvania State University. From 2000-2007, she was a faculty member in the Department of Biology at the University of Maryland. Currently, Dr. Tishkoff is the…
Daniela Robles-Espinoza recently received her PhD from the University of Cambridge, in the UK, and is now a postdoctoral fellow at the Experimental Cancer Genetics group in the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. She uses bioinformatics and computational methods to study the genetic factors that influence cancer development, especially melanoma, in high-risk families. She’s also interested…
Dr. Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado is an Investigator at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research in Kansas City, MO and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He is also co-director of the summer course on embryology at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA. Sánchez Alvarado moved from Venezuela and received his Bachelor’s degree in Molecular…
Melissa Moore received her PhD in biological chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She became interested in understanding RNA splicing during a post-doc with Phillip Sharp, also at MIT. Since then, Moore has spent much of her career working on the spliceosome and other mysteries of RNA processing. Moore was a Howard Hughes Medical…
Vivek Mutalik is a staff scientist at the Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division and Biological Systems and Engineering Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Previously Dr. Mutalik was a team leader at the BIOFAB, the first biological design-build-test facility, which focuses on developing extensively tested standard biological parts to facilitate easier engineering of…
Dr. Newman is a Professor in the Divisions of Biology and Geological and Planetary Sciences at the California Institute of Technology. When Newman began her undergraduate studies at Stanford University she wasn’t sure she was going to be a scientist because she was interested in a variety of different fields. In fact, she received her…
Eva Nogales is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, a Professor of Molecular Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, and Senior Faculty Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She obtained her B.S. degree in physics from the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (Spain) and did her thesis work at the Synchrotron Radiation Source…
Andrew P. Nosal is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, where he conducts research on the behavior, ecology, and conservation of sharks and rays. Nosal is most interested in the causes and consequences of movement phenomena like aggregation (grouping) behavior, sexual segregation (spatial separation of males and females), and seasonal migration. He…
Timothy Lu is an Associate Professor of Biological Engineering and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. He is also affiliated with the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Dr. Lu received his undergraduate and M.Eng. degrees from MIT in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He then obtained an M.D. from Harvard Medical School and…
Harmit Malik received his undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and his PhD from the University of Rochester. He moved to the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle for post-doctoral work and decided to stay, starting his own lab in the Division of Basic Sciences in 2003. Malik…
Wallace Marshall received his BE in Electrical Engineering and his BS in Biochemistry from SUNY Stony Brook and his PhD in Biochemistry from the University of California, San Francisco. He was a post-doctoral fellow at Yale University. Currently, Marshall is a Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at UCSF. His lab is interested in the…
Stephen Harrison received his A.B. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. He became interested in molecular structures and began his studies using X-ray crystallography as a graduate student. After receiving his Ph.D., he remained at Harvard and continued his work to improve the resolution of the tomato bushy stunt virus structure. In 1977, after 7 years…
After a short stint studying political science in college, Hopi Hoekstra switched her focus to biology. She received her B.A. in Integrative Biology from UC Berkeley, and her Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of Washington. She completed postdoctoral research at the University of Arizona, and, in 2003, she joined the faculty at UC San…
Although she always was interested in science, Lora Hooper’s love for biology started after taking an introductory class at Rhodes College in Memphis, TN where she was an undergraduate. Hooper continued her graduate education in the Molecular Cell Biology and Biochemistry Program at Washington University in St. Louis where she joined Jacques Baenziger’s lab. For…
Arthur Horwich received his AB and MD from Brown University. Following a pediatric residency at Yale, Horwich did two postdoctoral fellowships, first with Tony Hunter and Walter Eckhart at the Salk Institute and second with Leon Rosenberg at Yale, before joining the Yale faculty. Currently, Horwich is Sterling Professor of Genetics and Pediatrics at Yale…