In celebration of National Dog Day on August 26, 2024, the Academy is spotlighting NAS member Elaine Ostrander, NIH ...

My laboratory has been identifying genes that contribute to development of vascular disease in humans and determining how these mutations alter normal physiology to result in clinical disease. Many of ...

Elaine Ostrander is a geneticist recognized for her work on advancing the dog as a genetic system for studies of morphology, ...

Jane Richardson and her husband David have worked together for over 50 years on research to understand the 3D structure of protein and RNA molecules. They were early pioneers in protein ...

Barry Beaty is a University Distinguished Professor (Emeritus) in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology of Colorado State University. Dr. Beaty is a virologist recognized for his ...

Signal transduction and gene transcription in immune and other cell types; Mechanisms of store-operated calcium entry; Mechanisms of action of immunosuppressive drugs; Transcriptional mechanisms ...

Emily S. Bernhardt, PhD, is James B. Duke Distinguished Professor and current Chair of the Department of Biology at Duke University. She earned her B.S. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel ...

Her research concerns elementary particles and fundamental forces and has involved the development and study of a wide variety of models, the most recent involving extra dimensions of space. She has ...

Andreas J. Bäumler, PhD, is a Distinguished Professor and Vice Chair of Research in the Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology at the University of California Davis School of Medicine. He ...

My research is in the areas of climate and biogeochemistry. For the last two decades my colleagues and I have measured variations in the concentration of oxygen and its isotopic composition to ...

Supriyo Datta received his PhD from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1979 working on surface acoustic wave devices, and has been with Purdue University since 1981. The non-equilibrium ...

Nicholas Read is a theoretical condensed matter physicist known for his work on strongly correlated and topological phases of matter, especially in the fractional quantum Hall effect, including the ...