Alexis is a geneticist, with a broad interest in how genetic factors influence human health and disease.

Dr. Lambert is the Assistant Dean of Diversity and Student Life at Weill Cornell. His research focuses on strategies to improve access and equity in science and medicine careers.

Dr. Swann is a neuroendocrinologist, meaning that she studies the effect of hormones on the brain. Her research mostly focuses on comparing the brains of male and female hamsters.

Dr. Johnson is a biochemist who studies how bacteria - particularly pathogens - respond to metals in their environment.

Dr. Tan is a health psychologist and epidemiologist. Her research focuses on social factors that influence the risk of cancer in people who have low income and/or belong to racial/ethnic minorities.

Dr. Eko is a microbiologist interested in how chlamydia infection works, with the goal of developing an effective vaccine.

Dr. Bynoe is an immunologist and a leading expert on the blood-brain barrier. In 2011, her team discovered that a drug called Lexiscan briefly opens the blood-brain barrier, allowing drugs to more effectively treat brain diseases.

Dr. Lwigale is a developmental biologist who studies the stem cells that make the cornea in the eye during embryonic development and participate in healing the cornea after injury. He studies these processes in chick and mouse embryos.

Dr. Muhoro is an environmental organic chemist who studies how pesticides break down in rivers and how we might better remove them.

Dr. Van Valen uses computational biology approaches to combine imaging-based methods (e.g., microscopy) with genomic information.

Dr. De Rosa works at the interface of neuroscience and psychology, studying how well what we know about attention and learning in rats applies to humans.

Dr. Silva studies how cells respond to stress using a systems biology approach - his work generates and looks for patterns in large-scale datasets to try to understand all the different roles that a stress response factor can play.

Dr. Okpodu is an environmental biologist with a particular interest in the agricultural impacts of climate change. She has been the Dean at Xavier University of Louisiana since July 2018.

Dr. Reid is a pediatric plastic surgeon and the Bernard Sarnat Scholar of Craniofacial Research at the University of Chicago Medical School. His research focuses on finding ways to regenerate bone.

Dr. Melón is a neuroscientist who tries to understand how binge-drinking can lead to alcoholism and why that is more likely to occur in some people than others.