Dr. Jarvis studies the brain and how it creates, understands, and learns vocal communication. His research involves birds and mice, although he’s very interested in how the lessons learned from these model organisms can be applied to humans as well.

From 1991 to 2005, Dr. Olden served as the Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), the branch of the National Instutes of Health (NIH) that focuses on how the environment impacts human health. He was the first African-American to head any of the institutes in the NIH.

Dr. Bowman was the first African-American tenured professor of medicine at the University of Chicago, and an important figure in the intertwined histories of genetics and bioethics.

Dr. Brady's research looks at copper and how it interacts with and impacts important cellular processes and pathways.

Dr. Ideraabdullah is interested in how genes and environment interact to result in traits (“phenotypes”), with a particular focus on nutrition.

Dr. Garraway was the first director of the Joint Center for Cancer Precision Medicine, a collaborative effort by the Dana-Farmer Cancer Institute, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, and the Broad Institute.

Dr. Just is remembered as an internationally respected experimental biologist and for his work on the cell biology of fertilization.

Dr. Cooke Wright was a founding member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology and a pioneer in the field of cancer research and treatment.

Dr. Dunston is the founding director of the National Human Genome Center at Howard University, a collaboration between the National Institutes of Health and Howard University that focuses on diseases disproportionately impacting African-Americans.