Sheemei Lok, Ph.D., provost chair professor, Duke-NUS Medical School

Thomas Sakmar, M.D., Senior Physician and Richard M. and Isabel P. Furlaud Professor and head, Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Signal Transduction, The Rockefeller University

Peter Koo, Ph.D., associate professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Judith Frydman, Ph.D., Donald Kennedy Chair in Humanities and Sciences, Professor in the Departments of Biology and Genetics, Stanford University

Ugis Sarkans, Ph.D., team leader, EMBL-EBI

Justin Blau, Ph.D., professor of biology and neural science, New York University

Sam Reck-Peterson, Ph.D., chair, department of biochemistry and biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Simin Liu, graduate fellow, Shaham Lab, The Rockefeller University

Mark Anderson, M.D., Ph.D., A.W. and Mary Margaret Clausen Distinguished Professor of Metabolism and Endocrinology, Robert B. Friend and Michelle M. Friend Professor of Diabetes Research, director, UCSF Diabetes Center, University of California, San Francisco