Some participants could fit in more than one category. The Interviews can be read here.
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).
History
• Carlo Ginzburg (one of the most famous living historians; commented on history of science and on the effects of AI on science and society).
• Margaret C. Jacob (Historian of science and Distinguished Professor of Research at UCLA; commented on changes in scientific communication associated with the Scientific Revolution, starting from the 16th century).
AI in Science
• ChatGPT (AI system; commented on biomedical topics and on incentives, suggesting AI can complement human scientists; also later commented about the benefits of public or nonprofit AI systems).
• Sofia Serrano (Doctoral student in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington and soon to start as Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Lafayette College in Easton); Zander Brumbaugh (Masters student in the Allen School); Noah A. Smith (Professor in the Allen School and Senior Director at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence) commented on Large Language Models.
• Andrew McCulloch (Director of the Institute of Engineering in Medicine and Distinguished Professor, Bioengineering, at UC San Diego).
• Bjoern Peters (Professor at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology, and expert in computational tools to address fundamental questions in immunology).
• Jack Gilbert (UCSD Professor in Pediatrics and at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Deputy Director for Research at SIO, Associate Vice Chancellor for Marine Sciences at UCSD and Director of both the Microbiome and Metagenomics Center and the Microbiome Core Facility).
• Charles Kennel (former Associate Administrator of NASA and former Director of Mission to Planet Earth, a program to perform comprehensive observations of our home planet. He was also Director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Vice Chancellor of Marine Sciences at the University of California, San Diego, from 1998 to 2006).
• Gene Yeo (Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the University of California San Diego (UCSD), founding Director for UCSD’s Center for RNA Technologies and Therapeutics, founding Chief Scientific Advisor for Sanford Laboratories for Innovative Medicine).
• Alfredo Ferro and Salvatore Alaimo (Alfredo Ferro is an Emeritus Professor in Computer Science at the Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine of the University of Catania and Salvatore Alaimo is an Associate Professor at the same Department. Alfredo is also the Founder and Director of the Lipari International Summer School for Scientific Research).
• Soren Brunak (Professor of Disease Systems Biology at the University of Copenhagen).
• Ido Amit (Eden and Steven Romick Professorial Chair at the Weizmann Institute of Science).
• David Victor (Professor of innovation and public policy at the School of Global Policy and Strategy at UC San Diego).
• Pierre Baldi (Distinguished Professor, Department of Computer Science; Director, AI in Science Institute; Associate Director, Center for Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems at the University of California, Irvine).
• Andrea Califano (President of the Chan Zuckerberg New York Biohub)
• Christopher (Chris) Wills (Professor Emeritus of Biology at UCSD, expert in evolutionary biology)
• Anindya Bagchi (Associate Professor at the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute and an expert in cancer genetics)
• Talmo Pereira (Fellow and Principal Investigator at the Salk Institute, expert in deep learning and computer vision)