Atul Butte is a pediatrician, geneticist, computer scientist, and entrepreneur at Stanford University and the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital. Atul’s lab at Stanford builds and uses...
Champions of Change: Open Science
The White House honors 13 individuals for their vision and commitment to open science.
Endocrinologist and human geneticist David Altshuler is one of four founding members of the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT and serves as the Institute’s Deputy Director and Chief Academic...
In his 24 years as the founding director of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine (NLM), Dr. Lipman has had a...
A bioengineer at Stanford, Drew Endy is also co-founder and President of BioBricks.org, a charity advancing biotechnology to benefit all people and the planet. Over the past decade, Dr. Endy has...
Eric Kansa is an archaeologist and a computer geek, with a passion for making our knowledge of the human experience and our shared cultural heritage, available for everyone to explore and debate....
Jack Andraka is a Maryland high school student who at age 15 created a novel paper sensor that detects pancreatic, ovarian, and lung cancer in 5 minutes for as little as 3 cents. He conducted his...
Jeremiah P. Ostriker has been an influential researcher in one of the most exciting areas of modern science, theoretical astrophysics, with primary work in the area of the interstellar medium,...
John Quackenbush is Professor of Biostatistics and Computational Biology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Harvard School of Public Health. Since the Human Genome Project began in the...
Kathy Giusti is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF) and a multiple myeloma patient. Under Giusti’s leadership, the MMRF, working in close...
A theoretical physicist by training, Paul Ginsparg created an open access system in 1991 for his research community to share its cutting edge results. Now called arXiv.org, and moved from Los...
Rebecca Moore is an Engineering Manager at Google, where she initiated and leads the development of Google Earth Engine, a new technology platform that puts an unprecedented amount of satellite...
Dr. Stephen Friend is a world leader in efforts to make large scale, data-intensive biology more openly accessible to citizens and the entire research community in order to accelerate scientific...
Director of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies at The University of Pennsylvania, William Noel is an advocate for the creation of open data by museums and rare book repositories. He...