Education

College of the Holy Cross, B.A., Psychology; Stony Brook University, M.A., Clinical Psychology; Stony Brook University, Ph.D., Clinical Psychology

Professional Areas

Treatment strategies to improve long-term weight loss and maintenance; motivational and environmental processes that affect weight control; social influences on weight, eating, and physical activity.

Citation

For developing groundbreaking, evidence-based strategies focusing on sustainable quality of life improvement for those at risk, and for collaborating with experts to tackle the world’s most pressing health issues to improve global health and equity.

Education

Purdue University, BS, Biological Sciences; The Ohio State University, PhD, Developmental Biology

Professional Areas

Developmental and stem cell biologist, expertise in muscle development, regeneration, and rare musculoskeletal diseases characterized by inappropriate accumulations of fat, fibrotic tissue, or cartilage/bone. Expertise in gene regulatory mechanisms, cell signaling, and normal and disease models.

Citation

For seminal insights into the programming of muscle stem cells and identification and characterization of progenitor cells that transform soft tissues into bone after injury or in disease, and for providing the first insights into the transcriptional control of genes that regulate muscle lineage determination.

Education

University of Witten/Herdecke, School of Medicine, MD; University of Witten/Herdecke, School of Medicine, PhD, Physiology/Medicine

Professional Areas

Dr. Goessling is a practicing hepatologist and gastrointestinal oncologist. As chair at Yale, he is responsible for the overall clinical, education, and research activities of the department. He led the physician-scientist training program for 9 years, giving him expertise in medical education.

Citation

For significant studies in liver development, regeneration, and cancer development, for pioneering the zebrafish model to investigate novel methods to induce liver injury, and for discovering several pathways regulating stem and progenitor cell formation and function using chemical genetic screens.

Education

Kharkov State University, MS, Physics; National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, PhD, Physics

Professional Areas

Prof. Glazman’s research areas of expertise are condensed matter theory, in particular the dynamic properties of quantum low-dimensional interacting systems, the physics of mesoscopic solids and superconductivity, and quantum information science.

Citation

For pioneering theories in mesoscopic physics, particularly in the study of conductance quantization and electrostatic structure of edges in quantum Hall effect devices.

Education

Northwestern University, Dual B.S., Chemical & Environmental Engineering; University of California, Berkeley, M.S., Civil & Environmental Engineering; University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D., Civil & Environmental Engineering, Energy Science & Technology

Professional Areas

Prof. Gentner is a Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering and an internationally recognized expert on air quality science and engineering, with emphases on analytical chemistry, urban air quality, atmospheric chemistry, gas-phase organic compounds, particulate matter (i.e., PM2.5), and interdisciplinary research at the interfaces of energy, policy, and health.

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for outstanding contributions to the field of air pollution by advancing measurement techniques that capture chemical complexity and by furthering knowledge of on sources of reactive pollutant emissions impacting air quality across outdoor and indoor environments, their atmospheric chemical transformations, and the impacts of climate change on urban air quality.

Education

MIT, BS, Chemistry; Harvard University, PhD, Organic Chemistry

Professional Areas

The development and application of novel synthetic chemistry approaches and chemical biology tools to study biological phenomena, produce pharmaceuticals, and develop compounds with diverse properties.

Citation

For inventing the landmark tert-butanesulfinamide approach to stereoselective synthesis, pioneering C-H bond functionalization reactions, and for defining the field of combinatorial small-molecule synthesis.

Education

University of Alexandria, BS, Computer Science and Automatic Control; University of Alexandria, MS, Computer Science and Automatic Control; University of Louisiana-Lafayette, MS, Computer Science; University of Louisiana-Lafayette, Ph.D., Computer Science

Professional Areas

• Applications of machine learning in the medical field
• Quantum Computing
• Cybersecurity
• Wireless Communications and Wireless Sensor Networks
• formal approaches for design and verification
• Computer Architecture and Computer Arithmetic

Citation

For his pioneering contributions to artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and wireless networks, and for founding the Interdisciplinary Emerging Technology Laboratory, which has significantly strengthened Connecticut’s innovation ecosystem, workforce development, and leadership in emerging technologies.

Education

Ecole Centrale, MS, Mathematics; UT-Austin, MS, ECE; Univ of Paris XI, MS, Biomedical Engineering; Univ of Paris XI, PhD, Medical Physics; Univ of Paris XI, IFSBM, MD

Professional Areas

Professor in the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, and in the Department of Bioinformatics and Data Science, with expertise in quantitative nuclear medicine, including PET, SPECT, and MR in brain, cardiac, and cancer imaging, and simultaneous PET/MR.

Citation

For seminal contributions in the field of nuclear medicine imaging to quantitative SPECT, PET, and PET/MR in brain, cardiac, and cancer imaging, and for pioneering developments of advanced imaging technology.

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, S.B., Chemistry; University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D., Physical Chemistry

Professional Areas

• Surface and interfacial chemistry, adsorption, and catalysis
• Solid-state materials design, synthesis, characterization, and application (especially focused on high temperature)
• Innovation/value creation – translating scientific and engineering discoveries into products with a focus on energy

Citation

For fundamental contributions to enhancing our understanding of surface and interfacial chemistry at the molecular level related to adhesion, corrosion protection, and thin-film growth, and for the development of new, multifunctional materials, coatings, and devices.

Education

Sichuan University, BS, Biochemistry; University of Vermont, MS, Biochemistry; Cornell University – Weill Cornell Medicine, PhD, Molecular & Cell Biology; Columbia University, MA, Biomedical Informatics

Professional Areas

Dr. Cai is a world leader in data-driven computational drug discovery and development, where, through his various leadership roles, he develops innovative AI methods and tools to deepen understanding of human disease, discover novel drug targets and biomarkers, and accelerate drug discovery.

Citation

For exceptional contributions to the field of AI-driven drug discovery using large-scale integrative computational approaches, leveraging multidimensional and longitudinal human data, and the development of novel AI and other computational methods.