Tom Cech, former president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (2000-2009), is an external science advisor for the Science Philanthropy Alliance. He received his B.A. degree in chemistry from Grinnell…

Fleming Crim is the John E. Willard and Hilldale Professor of Chemistry Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. During a 40 career at the university, he chaired the department and…

Marc Kastner is Donner Professor of Physics Emeritus at MIT and adjunct professor of physics at Stanford University. He was the founding president of the Alliance in 2015 before transitioning…

Margaret Leinen is the director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography and vice chancellor for Marine Science at the University of California, San Diego. She is an ocean biogeochemist and paleoceanographer…

Shirley M. Tilghman was elected Princeton University’s 19th president on May 5, 2001 after serving on the Princeton faculty for 15 years.  Upon the completion of her term in June…