Marcia McNutt is a geophysicist and president of the National Academy of Sciences. From 2013 to 2016, she served as editor-in-chief of the Science journals. Prior to joining Science, she was director ...

The Frontiers of Science symposium series was created as the first program of the National Academy of Sciences targeted specifically for early career scientists. Frontiers was designed to bridge the ...

The memorial to Albert Einstein, situated in an elm and holly grove in the southwest corner of the Academy grounds, was unveiled at the Academy's annual meeting, April 22, 1979, in honor of the ...

SPEAKER: Improving SARS-CoV-2 Drug Development: Using AI and Molecular Dynamics to Understand Mutations and Resistance, Yang Li, Global Health Discovery Institute (GHDDI) SPEAKER: Image-based Deepp ...

Over the course of her career, Professor Kimberly Prather has co-authored over 230 publications on a variety of topics related to atmospheric aerosols. Awards for her work include being an elected ...

Susan Wessler is Distinguished Professor of Genetics emerita at the University of California Riverside. In 2011 she was elected Home Secretary of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS), the first ...

Michel Georges is Professor in Genetics and Genomics at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Liège in Belgium. He heads the Unit of Genetics of the GIGA Research Institute in the ...

Sandra Wolin is Chief of the RNA Biology Laboratory at the National Cancer Institute and heads the National Cancer Institute RNA Biology Initiative. She earned her A.B. in biochemical sciences from ...

Stanley M. Lemon MD is Professor of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). He received his A.B. degree from Princeton University summa cum laude in 1968 and M.D. with ...

As an experimental condensed matter physicist, I study quantum mechanics on a macroscopic level in materials that are "strongly correlated electron systems". In particular, I primarily investigate the ...

In contrast to our detailed understanding of genomes, the inheritance of differences in gene expression between cells and tissues and how they are mediated by histones, transcription factors and other ...

We are interested in the evolution of the intron/exon structure of genes. Are the introns ancient structures, used to assemble the first genes from a billion years ago or are they more recent ...