Anna Marie Pyle is a professor at Yale University who works on unraveling RNA folding and the dynamic process of RNA assembly (p. 34). Her love for science was seeded by her physician father and blossomed during a childhood spent playing in the Sandia National Laboratory’s backyard in Albuquerque, New Mexico. “I was always surrounded by people who loved science and nature,” she says. From an amateur chemist who’d mix and bubble things in her garage, she grew up to pursue a graduate degree in organometallic chemistry from Columbia University. It was there she turned her attentions to DNA’s cousin. “RNA was more of a rich field and more of a challenge.”
Once called “Merck’s free radical” by Forbes Magazine, Stephen Friend has taken his entrepreneurial spirit out of industry and into the future of research. As president, CEO, and co-founder of the non-profit Sage Bionetworks, Friend hopes to encourage ...
