Tom Maniatis, PhD

Evnin Family Scientific Director and CEO, ​New York Genome Center Professor, ​Zuckerman Institute, Columbia University

Michel C. Nussenzweig, MD, PhD

Zanvil A. Cohn And Ralph M. Steinman Professor, ​Director, Christopher Browne Center for Immunology and Immune Diseases, ​The Rockefeller University​; Investigator, ​Howard Hughes Medical Institute​; Senior Physician, The Rockefeller University Hospital

“mRNA vaccine-elicited antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 and circulating variants”

Eric A. Miska, PhD

Herchel Smith Professor of Molecular Genetics, Senior Group Leader, Gurdon Institute at the University of Cambridge; Member of the Department of Genetics,​ University of Cambridge​; Associate Faculty, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

“New RNA biology and therapeutics from RNA structure and modification”

Christopher E. Mason, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics,
Weill Cornell Medicine

“Massive Tissue and Cellular Disruption Revealed in COVID-19 Autopsies and a Spatial-Omics Tissue Atlas”

David D. Ho, MD

Scientific Director and CEO, ​Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center​;
Clyde and Helen Wu Professor of Medicine, ​Columbia University

“Increased Resistance of SARS-CoV-2 Variants B.1.351 and B.1.1.7 to Antibody Neutralization”