Academic & Scientific leaders supporting the call
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Frances Arnold |
Dick and Barbara Dickinson Professor of Chemical Engineering and Biochemistry, CalTech |
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Jonathan Arons |
Professor Of Astronomy and of Physics, University of California, Berkeley |
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Richard Bergenstal |
Executive Director, International Diabetes Center; Vice President, American Diabetes Association |
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Mel Bernstein |
Vice President for Research, University of Maryland |
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Donald Boesch |
President, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science |
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Dawn Bonnell |
Trustee Professor of Material Sciences; Director, Nano/Bio Interface Center University of Pennsylvania |
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Elizabeth Boylan |
Provost and Dean of Faculty, Barnard College |
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Christian Brady |
Dean, Schreyer Honors College, Pennsylvania State University |
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William Briscoe |
Director, Center For Nuclear Studies, The George Washington University |
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Charles Brokopp |
Director, Wisconsin State Lab Of Hygiene, Uninversity Of Wisconsin, Madison |
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James Buizer |
Science Policy Advisor To The President, Arizona State University; Former Director, Climate and Society Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) |
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John Cambier |
Chair and Ida and Cecil Green Professor of Immunology, University of Colorado; Chair of Immunology, National Jewish Medical and Research Center |
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Arthur Caplan |
Director, Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania and Chair, Department of Medical Ethics, U-Penn School of Medicine |
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Sean Carroll |
Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and author of Endless Forms Most Beautiful |
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Hal Caswell |
Senior Scientist, Biology, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
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Peter Cavanagh |
Chair, Biomedical Engineering, Lerner Research Institute, The Cleveland Clinic |
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William Chameides |
Dean, Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University |
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David Cheney |
Director, Science And Technology Policy Program, SRI International |
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Carl Cowen |
Professor of Mathematical Sciences, IUPUI; Former President, Mathematical Association of America (2005-2007) |
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Father George Coyne |
Director Emeritus, Vatican Observatory |
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George Crabtree |
Director, Materials Science & Senior Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory |
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Joel Cracraft |
Lamont Curator and Curator-in-Charge, Department of Ornithology, American Museum of Natural History |
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Judith Curry |
Chair, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology |
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Sandra Degen |
Vice President For Research, University Of Cincinnati |
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Neil deGrasse Tyson |
Director, Hayden Planetarium |
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Keith Devlin |
Executive Director, Center for the Study of Language and Information, and Consulting Professor of Mathematics, Stanford University; commentator "The Math Guy" on NPR; author of 25 books; Chair-elect of the Mathematics Section of the AAAS |
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Emmett Duffy |
Glucksman Professor Of Marine Science, The College of William and Mary; 2011 Kobe Prize in Marine Biology |
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Kelly Edwards |
Associate Dean, Graduate School, University of Washington |
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Niles Eldredge |
Curator, Division of Paleontology, The American Museum of Natural History |
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Martha Farah |
Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Natural Sciences; Director, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania |
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Nariman Farvardin |
Senoir Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, University of Maryland |
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Steve Fetter |
Dean, School of Public Policy University of Maryland - College Park |
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Baruch Fischhoff |
Howard Heinz Professor, Carnegie Mellon University; Former President, Society for Risk Analysis, Society for Judgment and Decision Making |
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John Fitzpatrick |
Executive Director, Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology; Brewster Award |
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Carol Folt |
Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences, Dartmouth College |
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Stan Franklin |
W. Harry Feinstone Interdisciplenary Research Professor, University of Memphis |
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Henry Frisch |
Professor of Physics, University of Chicago; Fellow of the American Physical Society |
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Elsa Garmire |
Sydney E. Junkins Professor Of Engineering Science & Former Dean, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College |
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John Gearhart |
Professor of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Physiology, Comparative Medicine, and Population Dynamics; Director of Stem Cell Biology, McKusic-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine |
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Barry Glassner |
Executive Vice Provost, University of Southern California |
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Irwin Goldstein |
Senior Vice Chancellor For Academic Affairs, University System Of Maryland |
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Lisa Graumlich |
Dean, College of the Environment and Virginia and Prentice Bloedel Professor, University of Washington |
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William Greenough |
Swanlund Chair and Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, University Of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
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Gary Grest |
Distinguished Member Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories |
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Robert Griffin |
Director, Francis Bitter National Magnet Laboratory; Professor of Chemistry, MIT |
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Francesca Grifo |
Senior Scientist and Director of the Scientific Integrity Program, Union of Concerned Scientists |
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Dean Hartley |
Director Of Science Initiatives, Alzheimer's Association |
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Ira Herman |
Professor and Director, Tufts Center for Innovations in Wound Healing Research and Director, Program in Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, Tufts University School of Medicine |
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John Hildebrand |
Regents Professor of Neurobiology, University of Arizona |
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Kip Hodges |
Director and Foundation Professor, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University |
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Richard Hodges |
Director, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology |
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Gerald Holton |
Research Professor of Physics and History of Science, Harvard University |
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John Horgan |
Director, Center for Science Writings at the Stevens Institute of Technology |
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Jack Horner |
Regents Professor and Curator of Paleontology, Montana State University; MacArthur Fellow |
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Jennie Hunter-Cevera |
President, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute |
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Jeffrey Huskamp |
Vice President and CIO, University of Maryland |
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John Irons |
Research and Policy Director, Economic Policy Institute |
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Jeremy Jackson |
William E. and Mary B. Ritter Professor, Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
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Thomas Jones |
Provost, Salisbury University |
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Steve Kelley |
Director, Center for Science, Technology and Policy, University of Minnesota |
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Daniel Kevles |
Stanley Woodward Professor Of History, Yale University |
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Lawrence Krauss |
Director, Origins Initiative; Co-Director, Cosmology Initiative; Professor of Earth and Space Exploration and Physics, Arizona State University |
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Eric Lander |
Director, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; first author of the Human Genome Project; one of TIME's 100 most influential people of our time (2004) |
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Ed Lazowska |
Bill & Melinda Gates Chair In Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington |
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Anthony Leiserowitz |
Director, Yale Project on Climate Change |
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Richard Lempert |
Eric Stein Distinguished University Professor of Law and Sociology, University of Michigan Law School |
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Peter Lepage |
Dean of Arts and Sciences, Cornell University |
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Howard Leventhal |
Board Of Governors Professor, Institute For Health, Rutgers University |
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Simon Levin |
Director, Center for BioComplexity and Moffett Professor of Biology, Princeton University |
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Eugene Levy |
Provost and Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University; former NASA Advisory Council; NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal recipient |
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Richard Lifton |
Director, Yale Center for Human Genetics and Genomics; Chair, Department of Genetics, Yale School of Medicine |
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Jere Lipps |
Curator of Paleontology and Professor of Geology, Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley |
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Arthur Lupia |
Hal R. Varian Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan |
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Michael Mann |
Director, Earth System Science Center, Penn State University |
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Bruce Margon |
Vice Chancellor For Research, University of California, Santa Cruz |
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Jay Marx |
Executive Director, Ligo Laboratory |
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Kenneth Miller |
Professor of Biology, Brown University; co-author of Biology |
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William Moerner |
Harry S. Mosher Professor of Chemistry and Professor, by courtesy, of Applied Physics, Stanford University; Wolf Prize in Chemistry, 2008 |
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Jon Morse |
Associate Vice President For Research, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
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Michael Novacek |
Provost of Science and Curator of Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History |
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Matt O'Donnell |
Frank And Julie Jungers Dean Of Engineering, University of Washington |
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Simon Ostrach |
W. J. Austin Distinguished Professor Emeritus Of Engineering, Case Western Reserve University; former Home Secretary; one of NASA's "12 Superstars of Modern Aeronautics" |
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Tara O’Toole |
CEO and Director, Center for Biosecurity, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center |
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David Ozonoff |
Professor and Chair Emeritus, Department of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health |
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Kevin Padian |
Professor and Curator Department of Integrative Biology and Museum of Paleontology University of California, Berkeley |
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Scott Page |
External Faculty, Santa Fe Institute; Professor of Complex Systems, Political Science, and Economics University of Michigan |
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Robert Palazzo |
Provost, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
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Bob Park |
Professor of physics and former chair of the Department of Physics at the University of Maryland; author Voodoo Science |
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Thomas Parks |
Vice President for Research and Chair, Neurobiology & Anatomy, University of Utah; Executive Director, Brain Institute |
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Charles Peden |
Interim Director, Institute for Interfacial Catalysis, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
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Raymond Pierrehumbert |
Lead author IPCC Third Assessment Report; Author NRC study on abrupt climate change; Louis Block Professor, University Of Chicago |
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Stuart Pimm |
Doris Duke Professor of Conservation Ecology, Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University |
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Steven Pinker |
Johnstone Family Professor, Department of Psychology, Harvard University; author How The Mind Works |
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Philip Pizzo |
Dean, Stanford University School Of Medicine |
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Jim Plummer |
Dean, Stanford University School Of Engineering |
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Timothy Profeta |
Director, Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, Duke University |
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Louis Ptacek |
Distinguished Professor, University of California, San Francisco; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
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Ronald Raines |
Henry Lardy Professor of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin - Madison |
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Vera Rubin |
Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington; National Medal of Science, 1993 |
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Rafael Reif |
Provost, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology |
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Barry Rosen |
Chair, Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Wayne State University; President, American Association of Graduate and Medical Departments of Biochemistry (AMGDB) |
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William Ruddiman |
Geologist, Climate Scientist, Prof. Emeritus, University of Virginia |
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Alan Saltiel |
Director, Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan |
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Virginia Sapiro |
Dean, College Of Arts And Sciences, Boston University |
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Barry Scherr |
Provost, Dartmouth College |
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John Schwarz |
Professor Of Theoretical Physics, CalTech; Originator of Superstring Theory |
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Larry Shapiro |
Executive Vice Chancellor For Medical Affairs, Washington University School Of Medicine |
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Robert Smith |
Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, University of Arkansas |
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James Gustave Speth |
Dean, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Yale University |
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Dan Stone |
Director of Graduate Studies and Gatton Endowed Chair, University of Kentucky |
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Fleur Strand |
Carroll & Milton Petrie Professor Emerita, NYU; Past President, New York Academy of Sciences |
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Lawrence Susskind |
Ford Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning, MIT |
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Jill Tarter |
Director, Center for SETI Research |
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Jon Thaler |
Professor of Physics And Astronomy, particle physicist and cosmologist, University Of Illinois |
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James Thomson |
John D. MacArthur Professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, and a faculty member of the Genome Center of Wisconsin; stem cell pioneer |
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Kip Thorne |
The Feynman Professor Of Theoretical Physics, CalTech |
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Maury Tigner |
Laboratory Director, Cornell University |
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Jonathan Tucker |
Senior Fellow, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies |
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Meg Urry |
Director, Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics; Chair, Yale Physics Department |
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Robert Wells |
Director, Center for Genome Research, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Texas A&M University, Texas Medical Center in Houston |
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Ron Wetherington |
Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence, Southern Methodist University; author of Understanding Human Evolution |
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Tim White |
Director, Human Evolution Research Center; Professor of Integrative Biology and Curator of Biological Anthropology, P.A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology |
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Bernard Widrow |
Professor Of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University |
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Walter Willett |
Fredrick John Stare Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Harvard University |
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Michael Witherell |
Vice Chancellor For Research, University of California, Santa Barbara; Former Director, Fermilab |
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Paul Wolpe |
Senior Fellow, Center for Bioethics; Professor, Departments of Psychiatry, Medical Ethics, and Sociology, University of Pennsylvania |
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Keith Yamamoto |
Executive Vice Dean, School of Medicine, University Of California, San Francisco |
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Laurie Zoloth |
Director, Bioethics, Center for Genetic Medicine Professor of Medical Ethics and Humanities Professor of Religion, Northwestern University |






