Scientist to watch

The University of Southern California bioengineer studies how lizards regrow their tails, with the goal of one day inducing regeneration in humans.

This University of California, Santa Cruz, biologist is dedicated to her marine mammal research, as well as to making the field more diverse and equitable.

The University of California, Santa Barbara, cell biologist is investigating the formation and functions of the peroxisome, an organelle which exists in many copies in each cell and can be created, lost, or altered to meet the cell’s metabolic needs.

The Northwestern University researcher studies how adaptive immune cells influence neurodegenerative disease.

The Columbia University neuroscientist researches the biology behind some of our most human experiences, including building family relationships. 

The Princeton University evolutionary biologist studies how animals are changing due to human activity.

In her current work, the University of Southern California psychologist is examining how the transition to fatherhood affects men’s brains.

The University of Sheffield researcher devises new protocols to gain molecular-level insights.

The New Mexico State University soil microbiologist uses molecular tools to understand how fungi are adapting to a warming world and what that might mean for global nutrient cycles.

From his student days in veterinary medicine in Ethiopia to running a lab on metastasis at MD Anderson Cancer Center, Debeb has a passion for understanding how living things work.

The biologist’s undergraduate-centered lab allows students to play a meaningful role in research.

The University of California, Davis, professor is a pioneer in teasing apart the changes in gene expression that drive root development.

The biologist at the University of Sunshine Coast in Australia wants to understand why some animal species adapt well to urbanization, while others fall flat.

The newly minted Baylor College of Medicine faculty member is working to crack the mystery of triple negative breast cancer.

The University of Washington parasite ecologist aims to understand how humans have changed the diversity and abundance of the enigmatic and misunderstood organisms.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham neuroscientist aims to determine which cells are most important in prompting the disease’s initiation and progression.

The MIT physicist has demonstrated the importance of clusters of RNA polymerase and other transcription mediators in regulating RNA production.

The bioactive coating tethers restorative proteins to implanted tissues and fosters new growth, animal studies suggest.

The Salk Institute researcher was one of the first to show that killing a pathogen isn’t the only way to survive an infection.