Renaissance Weekend

Renaissance Weekend

Illustrative List of Past Participants

Science, Medicine & Technology
Some professional notes below reflect past roles.
Peter Agre
Chemistry Nobel Laureate/Fndr., Johns Hopkins Molecular Med. Program
Guido Appenzeller
Founder-CTO, Voltage Security
Blaise Aguera y Arcas
Co-Creator, Photosynth/Software Architect-Seadragon, Microsoft
Anthony Atala
Dir., Wake Forest Inst. for Regenerative Medicine/Urology Dept. Chm., Wake Forest Univ. Med. School
Regina Benjamin
US Surgeon-General/MacArthur Prize-winning former President, Alabama Medical Assn.
Vance Bjorn
Founder-CTO, Digital Persona
Baruch Blumberg
Medicine Nobel Laureate/Former Master, Balliol College
David Botstein
Dir., Princeton University's Institute for Interactive Genomics
Paul Boyer
Chemistry Nobel Laureate
Joyce Brothers
Psychologist/TV-Radio Commentator/Two-time Winner, "$64,000 Question"
Erik Brynjolfsson
IT Prof., MIT
Patricia Buffler
Former Dean, UC Berkeley School of Public Health/ Former Pres., American College of Epidemiology
Sidney Burrus
Engineering Dean, Rice University
William Butler
Chancellor, Baylor College of Medicine
Sean Carroll
Cosmology-Theoretical Physics Prof., CalTech
Vint Cerf
VP-Chief Internet Evangelist, Google/"One of the Founders of the Internet"
David Chan
V.Chm., North Shore-LIJ Smith Inst. for Urology/Frmr. Outpatient Urology Dir., J.Hopkins Med. Ctr.
Stephen Chu
US Secretary of Energy/Former Director, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory/Physics Nobel Laureate
George Church
Personal Genome Project, Harvard Medical School
Daniel Clemens
COO, EtherPad/Fndr.-Former CEO, Batiq
Matt Cohler
General Partner, Benchmark Capital/Former VP, Facebook & VP-Gen. Mgr., LinkedIn
Rita Colwell
Former President, National Science Foundation
Eric Cornell
Physics Nobel Laureate
Paul Cox
Goldman Env. Prize-winning Founder, Inst. for Ethnomedicine/Former Dir., Nat'l Tropical Botanical Garden
Gordon Crawford
Founder-Former CEO, London Bridge Software
James Cronin
Physics Nobel Laureate
Robert Curl
Chemistry Nobel Laureate
George Day
Dir., Wharton School's Mack Ctr. for Technology Innovation
William Dietz
Dir., Center for Disease Control's Nutrition & Physical Exercise Division
Peter Doherty
Medicine Nobel Laureate
Joel Dreyfuss
Former Editor in Chief, Information Week
Esther Dyson
Web Commentator/Angel Investor
Martha Farah
Founding Dir., U.Penn's Ctr. for Cognitive Neuroscience
Peter Farley
CEO, Barnhill Genomics/Founder, Cetus Corporation
Craig Fields
Former Chm., Defense Science Board & Director, DARPA
Alex Filippenko
Astronomy Prof., UC-Berkeley
Jerome Friedman
Physics Nobel Laureate
Robert Gagosian
President, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Murray Gell-Man
Physics Nobel Laureate
Jack Gibbons
Former Assistant to President Clinton for Science & Technology
Catherine Lynch Gilliss
Dean, Duke University Nursing School
Shelly Glashow
Physics Nobel Laureate/Discoverer, Charm Quark/Originator, Grand Unified Theory of Particle Physics
Lee Goldman
Dean, Columbia Medical School
Mary Good
Former Ch., National Science Foundation
Robert Green
Genetic Epidemiologist and Former President, Society for Behavioral & Cognitive Neurology
Pedro (Joe) Greer
Professor, University of Miami Medical School
Larry Grisham
Beam Physics Director, Princeton University Plasma Physics Laboratory
Louise Grochow
Sr. Director-Global Medical Science, AstraZeneca
David Gross
Chemistry Nobel Laureate
Leonard Guarente
Biology Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Eric Heiden
Olympic Speedskater and Former US Pro Cycling Champ/Orthopedic Surgeon
Henry Heimlich
Physician/Originator, Heimlich Maneuver & Heimlich Valve
Danny Hillis
Co-Founder, Thinking Machines, Metaweb Technologies, Freebase
Reid Hoffman
Co-Fndr. & CEO., LinkedIn/Frmr. Exec. VP, PayPal/Fndr., SocialNet
Donald Holmquest
Chm., eMedical Research/Former Astronaut & Dean of Medicine, Texas A&M University
Randall Hulet
Atomic Physics Prof., Rice University
Russell Hulse
Physics Nobel Laureate
Ian Hunter
Bioinstrumentation Prof., MIT
Kay Jamison
Psychiatry Professor, Johns Hopkins Medical School
William Jews
Former CEO, Maryland Blue Cross-Blue Shield
Nancy Kanwisher
Cognitive Neuroscience Prof., MIT
Mitch Kapor
Founder, Lotus Dev't Corp.
Donald Katz
Founder, Audible
Wolfgang Ketterle
Physics Nobel Laureate
Robert Kirshner
Astronomy Professor & House Master, Harvard University
Michael Klag
Dean, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Christof Koch
von Humboldt Prize-winning Cognitive & Behavioral Biology Prof., CalTech
Anthony Komaroff
Editor, Harvard Medical Publications
Neal Lane
Former Director, National Science Foundation & Assistant to President Clinton for Science & Technology
Leon Lederman
Physics Nobel Laureate
David Lee
Physics Nobel Laureate/Physics Prof. Emeritus, Cornell University
Claude Lenfant
Former Director, National Lung & Heart Institute
Jerry Linegar
Former Astronaut/Surgical Epidemiologist
Stuart Lipton
Director, La Jolla Neuroscience Center
Garrett Lisi
Theoretical Physicist/Author, An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything
Susan Love
Author, Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book/Surgical Oncologist
Taber MacCallum
Founder-Explorer, Biosphere
Rudolph Marcus
Chemistry Nobel Laureate
Donald Marsh
Former Dean, Brown University Medical School
Yoky Matsuoka
MacArthur Prize-winning Neuroscience & Robotics Prof., Univ. of Washington
Mark McClellan
Dir., Engelburg Ctr. for Health Care Reform/Former FDA Comm'r & Admin., Center for Medicare & Medicaid
Jack McConnell
Co-Inventor, Tylenol, TB Tine Test, MRI/Founder, Volunteers in Medicine Clinics
Harry McCracken
Editor-in-Chief, PC World
Layton McCurdy
Dean Emeritus, Medical University of South Carolina
Matthew Mealiffe
Founder-CEO, Evinome; Medical Affairs Director, Perlegen Sciences
John Mendelsohn
President, University of Texas' M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Robert Metcalfe
Co-Inventor, Ethernet/Founder 3Com
Kenneth Miller
Biology Prof., Brown University
Joseph Murray
Medicine Nobel Laureate/Former Reconstructive Surgery Professor, Harvard Medical School
Steve Newcomb
Founder-CEO, Virgance, Powerset, Vox Civitas
Joseph Newhouse
Health Policy Professor, Harvard University
Dean Ornish
Author, Reversing Heart Disease and Eat More, Weigh Less
Julio Ottino
Engineering Dean, Northwestern University
Mehmet Oz
Physician/Author/Health Commentator
Paul Peercy
Engineering Dean, Univ. of Wisconsin/Former Pres., Semi-Sematch
Gil Penchina
CEO, Wikia/Angel Investor
Arno Penzias
Physics Nobel Laureate
Martin Perl
Physics Nobel Laureate
William Phillips
Physics Nobel Laureate
Stuart Pimm
Stuart Pimm - Author, The World According to Pimm
William Raduchel
Venture Capitalist/Former Sr. Executive, AOL TIme Warner, Sun Microsystems, Xerox
Norman Ramsey
Physics Nobel Laureate
Naval Ravikant
Managing Director, Hit Forge/Web Developer
Robert Richardson
Physics Nobel Laureate
Alton Romig
Exec. VP-COO, & frmr. Chief Tech Officer, Sandia National Labs/Frmr. Ex.VP, Integrated Technology
James Roosevelt, Jr.
CEO, Tufts Health Plan and Former Deputy Administrator, US Social Security Administration
Irwin Rose
Chemistry Nobel Laureate
William Schroeder
CEO, Diamond Multimedia Systems/Former CEO, Conner Peripherals
Bennett Shaywitz
Professor of Child Dev't, Yale University
Alfred Sommer
Former Dean, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins Univ.
David Spergel
Astronomy Prof., Princeton University
Robert Sufit
Neurology Prof., Northwestern Univ./Frmr. Co-Dir., U.Wisc.'s Muscular Dystrophy Clinic
Cliff Tabib
Genetics Chm., Harvard Law School
Richard Taylor
Physics Nobel Laureate
Peter Thiel
Founder, PayPal
Debi Thomas
Former World Figure Skating Champion & US Olympian/Orthopedic Surgeon
Curtis Thompkins
Former President, Institute of Industrial Engineers and President, Michigan Technological University
Trinh Zuan Thuan
Astronomy & Astrophysics Professor, University of Virginia
Art Ulene
Physician/Former NBC-TV Medical Commentator
Harold Urschel
Former President, Society of Thoracic Surgeons & College of Chest Physicians
Craig Venter
Founder, Institute for Genomic Research/Former CEO, Celera
Sam Wang
Neuroscience Prof., Princeton University
Ruth Westheimer
Sexuality & Relationships Therapist
Raymond White
Director, Hunstman Cancer Institute
George Whitesides
Chemistry Prof., Harvard Univ./Fndr., Gel-tex Pharma
Flossie Wong-Staal
Discoverer, HIV Virus/Chief Science Officer, iTherX Pharmaceuticals
Richard Wurtman
Brain & Cognitive Science Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Edward Yeh
Cardiology Chm., M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Laurence Young
Astronaut/Professor, MIT
John Yu
Dir., Cedars-Sinai Neurological Ctr.'s Brain Tumor Program
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