Advisors
The USA Science & Engineering Festival has a strong Advisory Board that includes Nobel Laureates, leading CTOs/CSOs of Fortune 100 high technology and life science companies, accomplished serial entrepreneurs and innovators, world famous translational scientists, decision makers in government science policy, and proven leaders in science education. Our Advisory Board members help recruit Science Festival partners, participants, and sponsors.
Dr. Ray O Johnson
Chief Technology Officer, Lockheed Martin
Dr. David Baltimore
Nobel Prize -- Medicine
President Emeritus, Robert Andrews Millikan Professor of Biology, California Institute of Technology
Dr. Gerald Edelman
Nobel Prize -- Medicine
The Neurosciences Institute
Dr. Robert H. Grubbs
Nobel Prize -- Chemistry
Victor and Elizabeth Atkins Professor of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology
Dr. Alan Heeger
Nobel Prize -- Chemistry
Professor of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara
Dr. Dudley R. Herschbach
Nobel Prize -- Chemistry
Professor of Chemistry, Harvard University
Dr. H. Robert Horvitz
Nobel Prize -- Medicine
Professor of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Dr. Leon M. Lederman
Nobel Prize -- Physics
Professor of Physics, University of Chicago
Dr. John C. Mather
Nobel Prize -- Physics
NASA
Dr. Kary Mullis
Nobel Prize -- Medicine
Distinguished Researcher, Children’s Hospital an Research Institution at Oakland
Dr. William Phillips
Nobel Prize -- Physics
Atomic Physics Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Dr. Phillip A. Sharp
Nobel Prize -- Medicine
Institute Professor
The David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dr. Kurt Wuthrich
Nobel Prize -- Chemistry
Cecil H. and Ida M. Green Visiting Professor of Structural Biology, The Research Institute at Scripps Clinic
Professional Science Societies and Industry Associations
Dr. Ralph Cicerone
President, National Academy of Sciences
Honorable James C. Greenwood
President & CEO, Biotechnology Industry Organization
Dr. Joan M. Herbers
President 2010 & 2011, Association for Women in Science (AWIS)
Ms. Madeleine Jacobs
Executive Director & CEO, American Chemical Society
Dr. Alan I. Leshner
Chief Executive Officer, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Executive Publisher, Science
Dr. Alan J. McCormack
President Elect, National Science Teachers Association
Mr. Sean Murdock
Executive Chairman, NanoBusiness Alliance
Dr. Charles Vest
President, National Academy of Engineering
Dr. Eric Lander
President & Director, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT
Dr. George Poste
Regents' Professor & Del E. Webb Chair in Health Innovation, Arizona State University
Mr. Dean Kamen
Founder & CEO, DEKA Research & Development Corp.
Founder & CEO, FIRST Robotics
Dr. Richard A. Meserve
President, Carnegie Institute
Dr. Robert Tjian
President, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Dr. J. Craig Venter
Founder, Chairman & President, J. Craig Venter Research Institute
Mr. Charles H. Britt, Jr.
Chairman & CEO, Center for Minority Achievement in Science & Technology
Ms. Leslie Collins
Executive Director, National Engineers Week Foundation
Ms. Joann DiGennaro, Esq.
President, Center for Excellence in Education
Ms. Patrice Legro
Director, Marian Koshland Science Museum, US National Academy of Sciences
Ms. Elizabeth Marincola
President, Society for Science & the Public
Publisher, Science News
Ms. Jan Morrison
Excutive Director, TIES -- Teaching Institute for Excellence in STEM
Ms. Sheri Potter
Ms. Judy Scotchmoor
Co-Coordinators, Coalition on the Public Understanding of Science (COPUS)
Dr. Erno Rubik
Inventor of the Rubik's Cube
Dr. Walter Staveloz
Director - International Relations, Association of Science-Technology Centers
Mr. John Abele
Founder, Boston Scientific
Mr. Jim Dinegar
President and CEO, Greater Washington Board of Trade
Dr. Peter Farrell
Executive Chairman of the Board, ResMed, Inc.
Mr. Richard Foster
Former Senior Partner & Director, McKinsey & Company
Managing Partner, Millbrook Management Group, LLC
Mr. John Gedmark
Executive Director, Commercial Spaceflight Federation
Mr. John Hayes
Founder and President, Engineering.com
Dr. Irwin M. Jacobs
Founder & Chairman, Qualcomm Inc.
Dr. Ray O. Johnson (CHAIRMAN OF THE ADVISORY BOARD)
Chief Technology Officer, Lockheed Martin
Mr. Joel Marcus Esq.
President & CEO, Alexandria Real Estate Equities
Dr. Nathan Myhrvold
Former Chief Technical Officer, Microsoft, Inc.
Founder & CEO, Intellectual Ventures
Ms. Laurie Naismith
Director - Government Relations & Public Affairs, Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority & Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS)
Dr. Stephen Oesterle
Chief Scientific Officer, Medtronic, Inc.
Dr. Roger M. Perlmutter
Chief Scientific Officer, Amgen
Dr. Richard H. Scheller
Executive Vice Presient and Early Development, Genentech, Inc.
Dr. Darlene J.S. Solomon
Chief Technology Officer, Agilent Technologies
Dr. David Stump M.D.
Executive Vice President, R&D, Human Genome Sciences
Dr. Gail Wasserman
Senior Vice President, Development, MedImmune
Mr. Josh Wolfe
Managing General Partner, Lux Capital
Dr. Min Zhou Berbon
CEO, China Materialia Advisory and Investment Company
Dr. Vittorio Bo
Director, Italian Science Festival
Mr. Bill Bobek
Director, Science Rendezvous -- Canada
Ms. Nicole Buckley
Executive Director, Cambridge Science Festival -- England
Mr. Simon Gage
Executive Director, Edinburgh International Science Festival
Mr. Tucker Hiatt
Executive Director, WonderFest
Natalie Ireland
Festival Director, Manchester Science Festival
Mr. Jan Riise
President, European Science Events Association
Ms. Mary-Anne Waldren
Executive Director, Australian Science Festival
Dr. Arthur Ellis
Vice Chancellor for Research, University of California, San Diego
Dr. Stanley Maloy
Dean, College of Sciences, San Diego State University
Dr. C.D. "Dan" Mote
President, University of Maryland
Dr. Carolyn Ruth A. Williams, Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Multicultural Affairs & STEM Initiatives, St. Cloud State University
Dr. Youseph Yazdi
Director, Center for Bioengineering Innovation & Design, Johns Hopkins University
Dr. Brian Schwartz
Director, Science and the Arts
Dr. Christopher Smith
Founder, The Naked Scientist
Dr. Brian Malow
Science Comedian
Mr. Shawn Otto
Founder, Science Debate
Mr. Travis Dredd
Deputy CEO for “Inside the Hall” Operations, Democratic National Convention
Honorable Bart Gordon
Partner, K&L Gates
Mr. Michael Knapp
Council Member, Montgomery County Maryland
Mr. Daniel Ritter
Partner, K&L Gates
Mr. Bryan Sivak
Chief Technology Officer, Government of the District of Columbia
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