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Biology (from Greek βιολογία - βίος, bios, "life"; -λογία, -logia, study of) is the natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. The term biology in its modern sense appears to have...
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Jessica Owens
Jessica Owens joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 2006 to
work on investments in pandemic preparedness and bio-defense. Jessica
brings experience in global public health and infectious disease
research from four years at the Centers for...
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Maria Borelius
Maria Sigrid Astrid Borelius (born 6 July 1960) is a Swedish journalist, entrepreneur and former politician. Following the 2006 Swedish general election she was elected a Member of Parliament for the Moderate Party, and on 6 October 2006 she was...
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- 1984
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Elizabeth Blackburn
Dr. Elizabeth H. Blackburn (born on November 26, 1948 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia) is a molecular biologist.
Blackburn is renowned for her discovery of the genetic enzyme "Telomerase". Blackburn isolated and precisely described telomeres in...
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- 1970
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Elizabeth Blackburn
Dr. Elizabeth H. Blackburn (born on November 26, 1948 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia) is a molecular biologist.
Blackburn is renowned for her discovery of the genetic enzyme "Telomerase". Blackburn isolated and precisely described telomeres in...
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- 1975
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Larry N. Vanderhoef
Larry Neil Vanderhoef (born 20 March 1941) is an American biochemist, and academic. He was formerly the chancellor of University of California, Davis.
Vanderhoef was born in Perham, Minnesota to Wilmar James Vanderhoef and Ida Lucille Wothe. He...
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Larry N. Vanderhoef
Larry Neil Vanderhoef (born 20 March 1941) is an American biochemist, and academic. He was formerly the chancellor of University of California, Davis.
Vanderhoef was born in Perham, Minnesota to Wilmar James Vanderhoef and Ida Lucille Wothe. He...
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Anne Wojcicki
Anne brings to 23andMe a 10-year background in
healthcare investing, focused primarily on biotechnology companies.
Anne left the investing world with the hope that she could have a
positive impact on the medical world and the biotechnology...
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Linda Avey
Linda has over 20 years of sales and business development experience in
the biopharmaceutical industry in San Francisco, Boston, San Diego, and
Washington, D.C. Prior to starting 23andMe, she developed translational
research collaborations with...
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Jim Merselis
Jim Merselis joined HemoSense in June of 2002. Mr. Merselis has over 25
years of experience in senior management assignments in domestic and
international marketing, sales, research & development and general
management in the Laboratory...
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Russell Herndon
Russell
Herndon comes to Hydra with over 25 years of experience in the
healthcare and biotechnology industries, with a proven track record in
building successful business infrastructures, pioneering innovative
corporate and regulatory processes and...
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Robert Towarnicki
Mr. Towarnicki joined Nucleonics as
President & CEO in 2003. At that time he was also named a member of
the board of directors. Prior to Nucleonics, Mr. Towarnicki served as
Chairman, President & CEO of Cell Pathways, Inc., an emerging...
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Robert Towarnicki
Mr. Towarnicki joined Nucleonics as
President & CEO in 2003. At that time he was also named a member of
the board of directors. Prior to Nucleonics, Mr. Towarnicki served as
Chairman, President & CEO of Cell Pathways, Inc., an emerging...
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Jan Davis
Nancy Jan Davis (born November 1, 1953) is a former American astronaut. A veteran of three space flights, Dr. Davis has logged over 673 hours in space. Dr. Davis is now retired from NASA.
She was born in Cocoa Beach, Florida, but considers...
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- 1975
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Archie Randolph Ammons
Archie Randolph Ammons, (February 18, 1926 – February 25, 2001) was an award-winning American poet.
Ammons grew up on a tobacco farm near Whiteville, in southeastern North Carolina. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. After the war, he...
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Karen McCarthy
Karen McCarthy (born March 18, 1947) is a Missouri politician. She served as the U.S. Representative for the fifth district of Missouri from 1995 to 2005.
McCarthy was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts and grew up in Leawood, Kansas and graduated...
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- 1969
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Lew Tucker
Mr. Tucker has two decades of achievements leading advanced
technology ventures. Prior to joining Radar Networks, he was
Vice-President of AppExchange at salesforce.com where he created and
drove the growth of the AppExchange online marketplace.
In...
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Joffre Baker
Joffre Baker, PhD has served as Chief Scientific Officer since December 2000. From March 1997 to October 2000, Joffre served as Vice President for Research Discovery at Genentech, Inc. From March 1993 to October 2000, Joffre oversaw Research...
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Jake Winebaum
Prior to
Business.com and eCompanies, Jake held several senior management
positions at The Walt Disney Company including: Chairman of Buena Vista
Internet Group (BVIG) overseeing Disney.com, ESPN.com, ABCNews.com,
ABC.com, and Family.com, President...
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Shaun McConnon
Shaun McConnon has guided high technology start-up companies through successful IPOs. He has orchestrated multiple mergers and acquisitions, and he has held senior management positions in sales, marketing, and operations. Shaun served as CEO of...
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Edward J. Laurent
Ed Laurent is a Spatial Ecologist who develops and delivers collaborative, science-based recommendations and tools that enable the implementation and evaluation of conservation activities. His specialties and expertise include geographic information...
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- May 1994
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- Aug 1989
Edward J. Laurent
Ed Laurent is a Spatial Ecologist who develops and delivers collaborative, science-based recommendations and tools that enable the implementation and evaluation of conservation activities. His specialties and expertise include geographic information...
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- Aug 2000
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- Apr 1998
Carol W. Greider
Carolyn Widney "Carol" Greider (born April 15, 1961) is a molecular biologist at the Johns Hopkins University. She was a co-discoverer of the enzyme telomerase in 1984 while working under Elizabeth Blackburn at the University of California, Berkeley...
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- 1983
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Leslie A. Dach
Leslie Dach is Executive Vice President of Corporate Affairs and Government Relations for Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. He is responsible for reputation management, public affairs, corporate communications, marketing public relations, the Wal-Mart...
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Stephen D. Pryor
Stephen D. (Steve) Pryor has been Vice President of Exxon Mobil Corp. since December 1, 2004. Mr. Pryor served as President of ExxonMobil Refining & Supply of Exxon Mobil Corp. from December 1, 2004 to March 2008 and served as Deputy...
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Catherine A. Lesjak
Cathie Lesjak is executive vice president and chief financial officer of HP, where she is responsible for the company's overall financial activities and leads several departments, including business unit finance, treasury, tax and...
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Susan Hockfield
Susan Hockfield is a noted neuroscientist who has taught at both Yale and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She's moved on to administration and served as Dean and Provost at Yale and as the President of MIT. Dr. Hockfield earned her...
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- 1973
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John Dineen
John Dineen is president and chief executive officer of GE's Transportation business. Headquartered in Erie, Pennsylvania, the Transportation business employs 8,500 workers around the world and generates revenues in excess of $4 billion serving the...
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Randall N. Spratt
Randall N. (Randy) Spratt is Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer for McKesson Corporation. Spratt is responsible for all technology initiatives within the Corporation. Spratt has been with McKesson for more than 18 years, most...
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Michael M. E. Johns
Dr. Johns was elected to the Board of Directors in 2005 and is a member of the Compensation & Benefits Committee and the Science & Technology Advisory Committee. He has served since October 2007 as Chancellor of Emory University. ...
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Michael M. E. Johns
Dr. Johns was elected to the Board of Directors in 2005 and is a member of the Compensation & Benefits Committee and the Science & Technology Advisory Committee. He has served since October 2007 as Chancellor of Emory University. ...
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Susan L. Lindquist
Dr. Lindquist was elected to the Board of Directors in 2004 and is a member of the Science & Technology Advisory Committee and the Public Policy
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- 1976
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Christine A. Poon
Christine Poon is the current vice chairman of Johnson & Johnson, one of Fortune 500 companies. Her areas of expertise include managing the pharmaceutical, consumer drug and nutritional businesses of the company. She earned a bachelor's in...
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- 1973
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John Ball
John Ball is the founder and Managing Director of Steamboat Ventures, which he formed in 2000. He has over 20 years of experience in venture capital investing, mergers & acquisitions, business development and strategic planning in the media,...
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Corey S. Goodman
Corey Goodman is the President of Pfizer’s Biotherapeutics and Bioinnovation Center. He oversees this newly established entrepreneurial center which is focused on translating biomedical discoveries into new medicines.
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Philip W. Schiller
Philip W. Schiller (born 1960) is the senior vice president of worldwide product marketing at Apple Inc. He is a prominent figure in Apple's public presentations. He aids Apple CEO Steve Jobs and has been a member of the company's executive...
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- 1982
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Marianne Moore
Marianne Moore (November 15, 1887 – February 5, 1972) was a Modernist American poet and writer noted for her irony and wit.
Moore was born in Kirkwood, Missouri, in the manse of the Presbyterian church where her maternal grandfather, John Riddle...
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- 1909
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- 1905
John F. Turner
John F. Turner was a former Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International and Scientific Affairs. He received the Department of State's Distinguished Honor Award from Secretary of State Colin Powell in 2005. Prior to...
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- 1964
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Bruce A Smith
Bruce Smith joined Tesoro as Chief Financial Officer in 1992, became President of the company’s exploration and production business, and in 1995, was named President and Chief Executive Officer and elected to the Board of Directors. He...
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- 1965
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Thomas Shenk
Thomas E. Shenk is the James A. Elkins Jr. Professor in the Life Sciences in the department of Molecular Biology at Princeton University. Although his publications have contributed to the fields of biochemistry, cell biology, genetics, genomics,...
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Millie Hughes-Fulford
Millie Elizabeth Hughes-Fulford is an American medical investigator and molecular biologist who flew aboard a NASA Space Shuttle mission.
Hughes-Fulford was born December 21, 1945, in Mineral Wells, Texas. She graduated from Mineral Wells High...
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- 1968
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Cat Cora
Catherine "Cat" Cora (born April 3, 1967) is an American professional chef best known for her featured role as an "Iron Chef" on the Food Network television show Iron Chef America.
Cora was born and raised in a Greek community in Jackson,...
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Nicholas Hughes
Nicholas Farrar Hughes (January 17, 1962 – March 16, 2009) was a fisheries biologist known as an expert in stream salmonid ecology. Born in England, Hughes was the son of the American poet Sylvia Plath and English poet Ted Hughes and the younger...
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- 1991
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Jeanna Giese
The Milwaukee protocol is an experimental course of treatment of an acute infection of rabies in a human being. The treatment involves putting the patient into a chemically induced coma and administering antiviral drugs. It was developed and named...
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Andrea Lowell
Andrea Lowell (born January 17, 1983 in Long Beach, California) is an American actress and model most recognizable from her Playboy magazine nude pictorials and on air work for a variety of Playboy TV programs.
Growing up the youngest of three...
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Usha Lee McFarling
Usha Lee McFarling is a Pulitzer-prize winning science writer.
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- 1988
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Carol Rushin
Carol Rushin is the Acting Regional Administrator, US EPA Region 8 in the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
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- 1976
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Elizabeth Blackburn
Dr. Elizabeth H. Blackburn (born on November 26, 1948 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia) is a molecular biologist.
Blackburn is renowned for her discovery of the genetic enzyme "Telomerase". Blackburn isolated and precisely described telomeres in...
End Date:
- 1972
