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Ebright has stated that the genome and properties of SARS-CoV-2 provide no basis to conclude the virus was engineered as a bioweapon, [28] [29] but he also has stated that the possibility that the virus entered humans through a laboratory accident cannot be dismissed and has called for a thorough investigation of the origin of the pandemic and for measures to reduce the risk of future pandemics.
The ASCB Early Career Life Scientist Award is awarded by the American Society for Cell Biology to an outstanding scientist who earned his doctorate no more than 12 years earlier and who has served as an independent investigator for no more than seven years. The winner speaks at the ASCB Annual Meeting and receives a monetary prize.
NAS Award in Molecular Biology: National Academy of Sciences: Recent notable discovery in molecular biology by a young scientist who is a citizen of the United States [42] United States: Overton Prize: International Society for Computational Biology: Outstanding accomplishment by a scientist in the early to mid stage of his or her career [43 ...
Roberts also received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement in 1994. [19] In 2021 he was awarded the Lomonosov Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences. [6] Roberts was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1995 [4] and a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) in the same year. [5]
He was the president of the American Society for Cell Biology in 2012. [5] He has also been an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute since 1995. [3] In 2019, Vale was named executive director of the Janelia Research Campus and a vice president of HHMI; his appointment began in early 2020. [6]
Jared Mason Diamond (born September 10, 1937) [1] is an American scientist, historian, and author. In 1985 he received a MacArthur Genius Grant, and he has written hundreds of scientific and popular articles and books.
Elizabeth Helen Blackburn (born 26 November 1948) is an Australian-American Nobel laureate who is the former president of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. [2] In 1984, Blackburn co-discovered telomerase, the enzyme that replenishes the telomere, with Carol W. Greider.
In early 2009, Al-Khalili presented the BBC Four three-part series Science and Islam about the leap in scientific knowledge that took place in the Islamic world between the 8th and 14th centuries. [33] He has contributed to programmes ranging from Tomorrow's World, BBC Four's Mind Games, The South Bank Show to BBC One's Bang Goes the Theory. [34]