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Molecular diagnostics and nucleic acid detection

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Chenxiang Lin

Chenxiang (Charlie) Lin, 林晨翔, is a scientist in DNA nanotechnology, a Yale professor and Nanobiology Institute faculty member since 2012 known for DNA-templated liposome assembly and nanodevices that pull on proteins.

David H. Persing

David H. Persing is an American physician-scientist in molecular diagnostics who established PCR testing for tick-borne diseases at the Mayo Clinic and later led test development at Cepheid.

David Kendal Stevenson

David Kendal Stevenson is an American neonatologist and physician-scientist at Stanford University School of Medicine, known for neonatal jaundice research and multiomics prediction of pregnancy complications.

Dean Ho (nanomedicine researcher)

Dean Ho is a nanomedicine and digital medicine researcher who heads Biomedical Engineering at the National University of Singapore and is known for nanodiamond drug delivery and CURATE.AI.

Gerald Joyce

Gerald F. Joyce is an American biochemist and origin-of-life researcher who is President of the Salk Institute, known for in vitro evolution and the first DNA enzymes.

Johan Elf

Johan Elf, born 1975, is a Swedish physical biologist and professor at Uppsala University who tracks single molecules in living cells and founded Astrego Diagnostics, whose PA-100 system tests antibiotic susceptibility in 45 minutes.

Kamran Badizadegan

Kamran Badizadegan is an American physician-scientist and pediatric pathologist trained at MIT and Harvard Medical School, known for optical pre-cancer detection and polio endgame modeling at Kid Risk.

Mats Nilsson

Mats Nilsson is a Swedish molecular biologist who invented padlock probes for detecting DNA in cells, and is Professor of Biochemistry at Stockholm University and SciLifeLab.

Quyen Nguyen

Quyen Nguyen is an American surgeon-scientist at UC San Diego known for color-coded surgery using fluorescent tracers that light up tumors and nerves during operations.

Rebecca R. Richards-Kortum

Rebecca R. Richards-Kortum is an American bioengineer at Rice University who develops low-cost medical technologies for low-resource settings, including neonatal devices for Africa, and received a 2016 MacArthur Fellowship.

Thomas C. Wright

Thomas C. Wright, Jr. is an American gynecological pathologist and Columbia professor emeritus whose trials of HPV testing and vinegar-based screening in South Africa shaped WHO cervical-cancer guidelines.