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Andrew Fire
Andrew Z. Fire is an American molecular biologist who shared the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering RNA interference, the silencing of genes by double-stranded RNA.
Craig C. Mello
Craig C. Mello, born 1960, is an American molecular biologist who co-discovered RNA interference in 1998 and won the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
David P. Bartel
David P. Bartel, also known as David Bartel, is a molecular biologist at MIT, the Whitehead Institute, and HHMI known for discovering animal microRNAs and how they repress targets.
Dinshaw Patel
Dinshaw J. Patel, born 1942, is an Indian-born American structural biologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center since 1992, known for RNA silencing, CRISPR-Cas, and cGAS-STING research.
Eric C. Lai
Eric C. Lai is a molecular biologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center who studies microRNAs and small RNAs in Drosophila, and defined the mirtron pathway in 2007.
Eric Miska
Eric Miska is a British-based RNA biologist at the University of Cambridge known for showing that small RNAs carry heritable information across generations in C. elegans.
Eva van Rooij
Eva van Rooij (born 1977) is a Dutch molecular biologist known for discovering roles of microRNAs in heart disease, and a professor of Molecular Cardiology at UMC Utrecht.
Frank Slack
Frank J. Slack is a molecular biologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School who co-discovered let-7, the second microRNA identified and the first in humans.
Gunter Meister
Gunter Meister is a German molecular biologist, professor and chair of Biochemistry at the University of Regensburg since 2009, known for work on microRNAs, Argonaute proteins, and RNA interference.
Haruhiko Siomi
Haruhiko Siomi (塩見 春彦) is a Japanese RNA biologist known for work on RNA silencing, Argonaute and Piwi proteins, and the piRNA pathway; he joined Chiba University in 2025.
Helge Großhans
Helge Großhans is an RNA biologist and University of Basel professor at the Friedrich Miescher Institute, known for showing that mature microRNAs are actively degraded rather than stable.
Hiten Madhani
Hiten D. Madhani is an American molecular biologist, professor and vice-chair of biochemistry at UCSF, known for RNA interference and epigenetics research in the pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus neoformans.
Irene Bozzoni
Irene Bozzoni is an Italian molecular biologist who studies RNA metabolism and non-coding RNAs in cell differentiation and disease, Full Professor at Sapienza University of Rome since 1994.
James C. Carrington
James C. Carrington (born 1960) is an American plant scientist at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center who studies RNA silencing and small RNA biology.
Ji-Joon Song
Ji-Joon Song (송지준) is a South Korean structural biologist and professor at KAIST in Daejeon, known for the first Argonaute crystal structure and full-length Huntingtin characterization.
Jo Vandesompele
Jo Vandesompele is a senior full professor in biomolecular medicine at Ghent University since 2007, known for the geNorm qPCR normalization method, the MIQE guidelines, and co-founding the spin-off pxlence.
John J. Rossi
John J. Rossi is an American molecular biologist at City of Hope in Duarte, California, a leader in RNA interference and nucleic-acid therapeutics for AIDS and cancer.
Joshua Mendell
Joshua T. Mendell is an American physician-scientist in RNA biology at UT Southwestern Medical Center and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, known for work on microRNAs in cancer.
Masayori Inouye
Masayori Inouye, born 1934, is a Japanese-born American biochemist and molecular biologist at Rutgers known for discovering antisense RNA gene regulation and mRNA interferases such as MazF.
Mikiko C. Siomi
Mikiko C. Siomi (塩見 美喜子) is a Japanese RNA biologist and professor at the University of Tokyo known for her work on piRNAs, small RNAs that silence transposons.
Oded Rechavi
Oded Rechavi is an Israeli biologist and Full Professor at Tel Aviv University who studies transgenerational inheritance of acquired traits through small RNA molecules in C. elegans.
Olivier Voinnet
Olivier Voinnet is a French plant molecular biologist who studies RNA silencing in plants; he has been professor of RNA biology at ETH Zurich since 2010.
Phillip D. Zamore
Phillip D. Zamore is an American RNA biologist at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School whose 2000 work on RNA interference helped establish how small RNAs silence genes.
Piero Sanfilippo
Piero Sanfilippo is an Italian-born biologist who studies RNA regulation and Drosophila neurogenetics, and has been a postdoctoral associate in the Zipursky Lab at UCLA since 2017.
Ramesh Pillai
Ramesh S. Pillai is a Swiss-based RNA biologist, a full professor at the University of Geneva since 2016, known for work on piRNAs and RNA modifications.
René F. Ketting
René F. Ketting is a Dutch RNA biologist who studies small RNAs and gene silencing, and has led the Institute of Molecular Biology in Mainz since 2012.
Rhonda Feinbaum
Rhonda Feinbaum is an American molecular biologist and genetic counselor who co-authored the 1993 lin-4 paper founding microRNA biology and later studied C. elegans immunity.
Richard W. Carthew
Richard W. Carthew is a molecular biologist who studies small RNA gene silencing in fruit flies, is a professor at Northwestern University, and directs a Chicago biology institute founded in 2023.
Robin P. Wharton
Robin P. Wharton is an American molecular biologist and Emeritus Professor at Ohio State known for defining the Nanos and Pumilio machinery that patterns the Drosophila embryo.
Scott M. Hammond
Scott M. Hammond is an American microRNA biologist and cancer researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, known for identifying the mir-17-92 microRNA cluster as a potential oncogene.