Bob Weinberg is a Founding Member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Weinberg lab is known for its discoveries of the first human oncogene – the ras oncogene that causes normal cells to form tumors, and the isolation of the first known tumor suppressor gene - the Rb gene.

Jeffery Molkentin is Professor of Pediatrics at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. He received his B.S. in biology from Marquette University and his Ph.D. in physiology from the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. He has received an American Heart Association Council on Basic Cardiovascular Sciences Research Prize and a Louis N. and Arnold M. Katz Young Investigator Award, and has been named a Pew Scholar.

The laboratory is interested in understanding the intracellular signaling pathways and transcriptional regulatory circuits that control mammalian cell growth and differentiation. In response to various growth factors or stress stimuli, discrete signal transduction pathways are activated at the cell membrane and within the cytoplasm that subsequently modify the activity of key transcription factors resulting in the reprogramming of gene expression. Important model systems for the investigation of growth and stress responses include cardiac myocytes, skeletal muscle myocytes, and T lymphocytes.

David Goldstein is Professor of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology and Director of the IGSP's Center for Population Genomics & Pharmacogenetics. Dr. Goldstein received his PhD in Biological Sciences from Stanford University in 1994, and from 1999 to 2005 was Wolfson Professor of Genetics at University College London.

He is the author of over 70 scholarly publications in the areas of population and medical genetics. Goldstein's principal interests include human genetic diversity, the genetics of neurological disease, and pharmacogenetics. He is on the editorial boards of Current Biology, Annals of Human Genetics, Molecular Biology and Evolution, and Human Genomics. He is the recipient of one of the first seven nationally awarded Royal Society / Wolfson research merit awards in the UK for his work in human population genetics.

The research in Dr. James Broach's laboratory at Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, is directed toward understanding cellular regulation at the molecular level, using the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a model system. Specifically, they are investigating (l) signal transduction regulating initiation of cell growth, and (2) the mechanism underlying the control of cell type in yeast. They approach these problems using a combination of yeast genetics, biochemical analysis, cell biology and genomic techniques.

Like a movie with multiple plots spiraling around an intriguing lead character, Harvard Medical School associate professor George Daley's scientific career centers on a major player in human biology—the cell that creates the entire array of blood cells.

Dr. Marvin Wicken lab's work at University of Wisconsin, Madison lies at the interface between developmental biology, molecular genetics and biochemistry. How are mRNAs controlled?

Carolyn Bertozzi, Professor of UC, Berkeley, is recognized as one of the leading scientists in chemcial biology. Bertozzi’s research interests lie at the intersection of chemistry and biology, with a particular focus on understanding the relationship of cell surface glycosylation to normal cell function, and to human disease.

Proteases play key roles in the regulation of normal and pathological processes ranging from cell division to invasion of a host cell by a pathogen. Dr. Matthew Bogyo’s laboratory, Stanford University, School of Medicine, is interested in developing and applying chemical tools to dissect the functional roles of proteases in a number of human health conditions.

William L. Jorgensen's lab is a pioneer computational chemistry research team by dedeveloping potential functions through fitting parameters to reproduce the thermodynamic properties of pure liquids, which is now widely used by other researchers.