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Ali Torkamani
Ali Torkamani is an American geneticist who is Professor at The Scripps Research Institute and Director of Genome Informatics at the Scripps Research Translational Institute, known for high-definition medicine.
Charles Rotimi
Charles Rotimi (born 1957) is a Nigerian-born genetic epidemiologist and scientific director of the National Human Genome Research Institute since 2021, known for research on ancestry, disease, and African genomics.
Daniel MacArthur
Daniel MacArthur (Daniel G. MacArthur) is an Australian geneticist known for building ExAC and gnomAD, the world's largest catalogs of human genetic variation, and leads the Centre for Population Genomics.
Effie W. Petersdorf
Effie W. Petersdorf is a transplant physician-scientist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle whose registry-scale HLA matching studies established the 8/8 match standard for unrelated donor transplantation.
Eimear E. Kenny
Eimear E. Kenny, also known as Eimear Kenny, is an Irish-born population and medical geneticist who directs the Institute for Genomic Health at Mount Sinai in New York.
Gilbert S. Omenn
Gilbert S. Omenn is an American physician-scientist and geneticist at the University of Michigan whose 1996 CARET trial showed beta carotene supplements raise lung cancer risk in smokers.
James V. Neel
James V. Neel (1915–2000) was an American human geneticist at the University of Michigan who established sickle cell anemia as a recessive Mendelian disease and led the genetic study of the atomic-bomb survivors.
Jerome I. Rotter
Jerome I. Rotter is an American medical geneticist and genetic epidemiologist known for the genetics of common diseases, especially diabetes and inflammatory bowel disease, in multi-ethnic American populations.
Kári Stefánsson
Kári Stefánsson is an Icelandic physician and human geneticist who founded deCODE genetics in Reykjavik in 1996 and pioneered population-scale genetics to find disease variants.
Mark H. Skolnick
Mark H. Skolnick (born 1946) is an American genetic epidemiologist at the University of Utah who led the team that identified the BRCA1 gene in 1994.
Muin J. Khoury
Muin J. Khoury is a Lebanese-American physician and genetic epidemiologist who founded and directed the CDC's Office of Public Health Genomics from 1998 to 2024.
Neil A. Holtzman
Neil A. Holtzman, born 1934, is an American physician-geneticist and Johns Hopkins professor known for phenylketonuria screening research and for chairing the federal Task Force on Genetic Testing.
Nilanjan Chatterjee
Nilanjan Chatterjee is a biostatistician and genetic epidemiologist who spent sixteen years at the National Cancer Institute before joining Johns Hopkins in 2015, known for polygenic risk prediction across diverse populations.
Sara L. F. Sunden
Sara L. F. Sunden is a genetics researcher affiliated with the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the University of Iowa who coauthored a 1997 Science paper identifying a gene causing primary open angle glaucoma.
Sekar Kathiresan
Sekar Kathiresan is an American preventive cardiologist and human geneticist who co-founded and led Verve Therapeutics, a gene-editing company acquired by Eli Lilly in 2025.
Stéphanie Debette
Stéphanie Debette, born 1976, is a French vascular neurologist and genetic epidemiologist known for research on the genetics of stroke and cerebral small vessel disease.
Steven A. Narod
Steven A. Narod, also known as Steven Narod, is a Canadian medical geneticist who studies hereditary breast and ovarian cancer at Women's College Hospital in Toronto.
Wylie Burke
Wylie Burke is an American physician and geneticist known for work on the ethics and policy of genetic information, and former chair of bioethics at the University of Washington.