2011
The 2011 probed both the acute/common and rare/neglected diseases that strip us of health, imagined the tsunami of diseases that are amassing for invasion at our borders, looked at the growing empowerment of groups of patients banding together to help themselves using the internet, and analyzed the possible impact of patent law and large data bases to restore urgency to the dialogue.
Larry Gold serves as the Founder and Chairman of the Board of SomaLogic, and is a Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Kevin Davies is the founding editor of Bio-IT World and Nature Genetics, and the author of The $1,000 Genome (Free Press, 2010), an account of the revolution in DNA sequencing technologies, personal genomics, and personalized medicine.
Richard Lawn received a B.A. degree in Astronomy from Harvard College and a Ph.D. degree in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology from the University of Colorado.
Dr. Susan Fisher is a Professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine.
Dr. Nathan Wolfe is an epidemiologist who fights disease pandemics with an unprecedented early warning system to forecast, pinpoint and control new plagues worldwide before they kill millions.
Dr. Lawrence Hunter is the Director of the University of Colorado’s Computational Bioscience Program and a Professor of Pharmacology (School of Medicine) and Computer Science (Boulder).
Steve Morrissett is a trial lawyer in the Palo Alto, California, office of Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, a law firm that practices exclusively intellectual property law.
Ruth Crowe was trained as a physician-scientist at NYU School of Medicine and received residency and Hematology-Oncology fellowship training at Cornell University Medical College.
An MIT engineer, Jamie entered the field of translational research and medicine when his brother Stephen was diagnosed with ALS at age 29.
Rick Guidotti, an award-winning fashion photographer, has spent the past fourteen years working internationally with advocacy organizations/NGOs, medical schools, universities and other educational institutions to effect a sea-change in societal attitudes towards individuals living with genetic difference.
David Housman has been engaged in work on genetic diseases since 1970. He received his PhD at Brandeis University in 1971.
Sharon F. Terry is President and CEO of the Genetic Alliance. She is the founding CEO of PXE International, a research & advocacy organization for the genetic condition pseudoxanthoma elasticum (PXE), a condition that affects her two children.
Evelyn Resh is a certified sexuality counselor, nurse-midwife, author and speaker. She frequently speaks and writes about sexual health and satisfaction and mother-daughter relationships.
Training: Medical degree with honors from the University of West Indies; Oxford University (Rhodes Scholar); MA Physiology. Internal medicine residency Mayo Clinic.
Gilbert Omenn is Professor of Internal Medicine, Human Genetics, and Public Health and Director of the Center for Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics and the Proteomics Alliance for Cancer Research at the University of Michigan.
Don Kripke was born in Schenectady, NY, and raised in Washington, D.C. He graduated magna cum laude from Yale with a BA in Philosophy in 1963. He then attended the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, where he received his M.D. degree in 1967.
Robert Duke is the Marlene and Morton Meyerson Centennial Professor and Head of Music and Human Learning at The University of Texas at Austin, where he is University Distinguished Teaching Professor, Elizabeth Shatto Massey Distinguished Fellow in Teacher Education, and Director of the Center for Music Learning.
Gregory A. Petsko is Chair of the Department of Biochemistry at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, where from 1994 to 2008 he served as Director of the Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center.
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