Some participants could fit in more than one category.
Signaling Molecules
• Napoleone Ferrara (Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences and Lasker Award; discoverer of VEGF; contributor to the development of Avastin).
• Erkki Ruoslahti (Lasker Award; co-discoverer of integrins).
Research Tools
• Robert Langer (Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences; the most cited bioengineer in history for work on tissue engineering and drug delivery; one of the founders of Moderna).
• Evan Snyder (one of the pioneers of the study of neural stem cells and of the field of regenerative medicine; research includes organoid models).
• Aviv Regev and Sarah Teichmann (Founders of the Human Cell Atlas, an open global initiative with more than 2,700 members, from over 86 countries around the world. The Human Cell Atlas aims to map every cell type in the human body).
• Gary Siuzdak and Bruno Conti (Gary Siuzdak is a recognized expert in metabolomics and has collaborated with Bruno Conti in studies of cellular signaling).
Science Policy and Philanthropy
• Renato Dulbecco (Nobel Prize in Medicine and Lasker Award; commented on openness and innovation in biology).
• Mike Milken (Philanthropist; Giving Pledge signatory; commented on financial innovations, including incentive strategies to achieve social goals).
• Robert (Bob) Conn (Dean, Emeritus, Jacobs School of Engineering, UCSD; President, Emeritus, The Kavli Foundation; Co-Founder, Science Philanthropy Alliance; commented on scientific collaborations and philanthropy).
• Joshua Graff Zivin (Economist and Social Scientist; Director of the Cowhey Center on Global Transformation and co-director of the Global Health Institute at UCSD; commented on incentives in biomedical science and on AI).
• Carlo Ginzburg (one of the most famous living historians; commented on history of science and on the effects of AI on science and society).
AI and computation
• ChatGPT (AI system; commented on biomedical topics and on incentives, suggesting AI can complement human scientists).