WASHINGTON — The National Academy of Sciences is presenting its 2025 Public Welfare Medal to Mary-Claire King for her pioneering genetic research and its transformative application to human rights.

Organizer: Mel Wohlgemuth, University of Arizona and Ed O’Brien, Pennsylvania State University INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER: Ricardo Samms, Eli Lilly and Co.

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is the NASA Astrophysics Division’s next flagship mission. Roman will conduct surveys of the sky to help reveal some of our Universe’s most interesting ...

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WASHINGTON, DC – The Editorial Board of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) has selected six papers published by PNAS in 2024 to receive the Cozzarelli Prize, an award that ...

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 ...

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Erik Jorgensen is a geneticist studying the molecular mechanisms of synaptic transmission. He was born and raised in Saratoga, California. Jorgensen was a vocational arts student, draftsman and ...

Arkadi Nemirovski is applied mathematician recognized for his work on convex optimization (complexity, polynomial time and first order algorithms, conic programming, robust optimization) and ...

My laboratory studies the genetic control of key developmental events during oogenesis using Drosophila melanogaster as our organism. We are currently concentrating on two processes. First, we have ...

Sylvester James (Jim) Gates, Jr. (born December 15, 1950), of the University of Maryland and Brown University, served on the U. S. President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology and on the ...

The central research interest in my laboratory is to understand the precise molecular mechanisms that underlie transcriptional control required for the developmental appearance and regulation of ...