Merkin Prize Jury

 
 
 
 
The Merkin Prize Jury is composed of scientific leaders from academia and industry in the US and Europe. Jurors include:

Geneviève Almouzni, Photo credit: Cécile Burban / 10.7



Geneviève Almouzni
Research Director at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
Group Leader & Honorary Director of the Research Center
Institut Curie
Paris, France

Lab website: https://institut-curie.org/team/almouzni

Photo credit: Copyright © Cécile Burban / 10.7

 

Kristi Anseth



Kristi Anseth
Professor of Chemical & Biological Engineering
Associate Faculty Director of the BioFrontiers Institute
University of Colorado at Boulder
Boulder, Colorado

Lab website: http://www.colorado.edu/ansethgroup
X: @AnsethGroup

 

Ewan Birney



Ewan Birney
Deputy Director General, EMBL
Director, EMBL-EBI
Cambridge, United Kingdom

EMBL website: https://www.embl.org/
EBI website: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/
Lab Website: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/research/birney/

 

Ruth Lehmann, Photo credit: Gretchen Ertl/Whitehead Institute



Ruth Lehmann
Director and President, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Professor of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Lab Website: https://www.lehmannlab.com/
Website: https://wi.mit.edu/people/member/lehmann-director

Photo credit: Gretchen Ertl/Whitehead Institute

 

Roderic Pettigrew



Roderic Pettigrew
Vice Chancellor for Health & Strategic Initiatives
Texas A&M University System
Inaugural Dean, School of Engineering Medicine
Texas A&M University/Houston Methodist Hospital
Robert A. Welch Professor
Founding Director of NIBIB
College Station, TX

Website: https://www.houstonmethodist.org/faculty/roderic-pettigrew/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/roderic-pettigrew-7a22b676/

 

Venki Ramakrishnan



Venki Ramakrishnan
Group Leader
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Cambridge, United Kingdom

Lab Website: https://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/groups/ribo/

Photo credit: Kate Joyce

 

Harold Varmus



Harold Varmus 
Lewis Thomas University Professor
Weill Cornell Medicine
New York, New York

Lab Website: http://www.varmuslab.org/
 

 

Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic



Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic
University Professor
Columbia University
New York, New York

Lab Website: gvnlab.bme.columbia.edu
Website: bme.columbia.edu/gordana-vunjak-novakovic
TERC Website: nextgenterc.com
X: @GVNlab