Dr. Thomas Südhof is a Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist at Stanford whose discoveries on synaptic transmission are foundational to understanding autism, schizophrenia, and Alzheimer’s disease.

Dr. Jonathan Lunine is Chief Scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and a National Academy of Sciences member, with key roles on the Cassini, Juno, Europa Clipper, and James Webb Space Telescope missions.

Toby Gad is a Grammy-winning songwriter behind Beyoncé’s “If I Were A Boy,” Fergie’s “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” and John Legend’s “All of Me,” with a catalog spanning Madonna, Demi Lovato, and Josh Groban.

Dr. Kim Budil is the Director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory — the first woman in its 70-year history to lead the institution — overseeing 8,900 employees and the landmark 2022 nuclear fusion ignition breakthrough

Dr. Jonathan Thomas, PhD, JD is President & CEO of CIRM, the world’s largest government-funded stem cell research agency ($5.5B portfolio). A Yale summa cum laude graduate, Oxford PhD, and Yale-trained lawyer, he uniquely bridges science, law, and finance.

Dr. Denis Fedorenko, MD, PhD holds the world’s largest single-center AHSCT experience for multiple sclerosis, having treated 3,000+ patients from 60+ countries across 20 years at Moscow’s Pirogov National Medical Surgical Center.

Dr. Lawrence Steinman, MD is a Stanford professor and member of both the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine, whose research led directly to Tysabri — one of the most impactful MS treatments ever developed.

Dr. Qifa Zhou is an IEEE Fellow and Professor at USC pioneering high-frequency ultrasound technology for biomedical imaging, with 200+ publications and active research in ultrasound-based brain stimulation and drug delivery.

Dr. Richard K. Burt is a Fulbright Scholar and pioneer of America’s first hematopoietic stem cell transplant for autoimmune diseases, holding 7 USPTO patents on stem cell therapies for aging and degenerative disease.