Distinguished Faculty
- Elizabeth Blackburn (non-resident faculty), Nobel laureate (for work on telomeres and telomerases).
- Sydney Brenner, Nobel laureate (for work with C. elegans)
- Renato Dulbecco (deceased), Nobel laureate (for viral transformation of cells).
- Roger Guillemin, Nobel laureate (for elucidating the structures of neurohormones TRH and GnRH)
- Ursula Bellugi, founder of the neurobiology of American Sign Language
- Terrence Sejnowski, renowned computational neuroscientist.
- Ronald M. Evans, winner of the Lasker Award
- Fred H. Gage, highly cited neuroscientist.
- Tony Hunter, discoverer of tyrosine phosphorylation of proteins.
- Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, prominent developmental biologist.
- Francis Crick (deceased), Nobel laureate (for DNA double helix structure description).
- Leslie Orgel (deceased) former Senior Fellow and Research Professor
- Marguerite Vogt (deceased), virologist.
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