Hometown: Seattle, WA
Scientist Dead or Alive: Francis Collins
Things I enjoy outside of work: Gardening, travel, and spending time with family and friends.
 

Hometown: Fullerton, CA
Scientist (Dead or Alive) you would invite to dinner: My father, Dr. Charles C. Lambert
Paper that greatly impacted you: Most recently, the group of 27 papers making up the Pan-Cancer Atlas, published April 2018
In my time off I enjoy: running, hiking, live music, and spending time with family and friends

Hometown: Syracuse, New York
Scientist (Dead or Alive) you would invite to dinner: Chawnshang Chang
Paper that greatly impacted you: Barnett C. E. (1906). VII. The Female Prostate: An Anatomico-Surgical Study. Annals of surgery, 44(4), 576–581.
Favorite Book: The Assassination Bureau, Ltd By Jack London
In my time off I enjoy: IU, K-Dramas, Costco, Crying

Hometown: Rochester, MN
Scientist (Dead or Alive) you would invite to dinner:  Jonas Salk
Paper that greatly impacted you:
In my time off I enjoy: Hiking!

Hometown:  Fort Lauderdale, FL
Scientist (Dead or Alive) you would invite to dinner: Carl Sagan
Paper that greatly impacted you: The clonal evolution of tumor cell populations.
In my time off I enjoy: World travel, breweries, nature, tech, retro video games.

Hometown: Accra, Ghana
Scientist (Dead or Alive) you would invite to dinner: Jane C. Wright
Paper that greatly impacted you: The immune landscape of cancer
In my time off I enjoy: Thriller novels, music, soccer and biking.

Hometown:  Kennewick, WA
Scientist (Dead or Alive) you would invite to dinner: Steve Mould
Favorite book: His Dark Materials series
Favorite movie: Arrival                                                                                                       In my time off I enjoy:  Baking, homebrewing, listening to music, travel

Hometown: Kolkata, India
Scientist (Dead or Alive) you would invite to dinner: John Michael Bishop, Jagadish Chandra Bose, and Sidney Farber
Paper that greatly impacted you: The first report on the generation of iPSCs from Dr. Shinya Yamanaka's group. I find it as a perfect balance of raw intellect and brute force-driven science
In my time off I enjoy: Web surfing, travelling, singing and reading books

Hometown: Dublin, Ireland
Scientist (Dead or Alive) you would invite to dinner: David Attenborough/Rosalind Franklin
Paper that greatly impacted you: Erwin Schrodinger “What is life, the physical aspects of the living cell”
In my time off I enjoy: Travel, hiking and running

Hometown: Vancouver, BC, Canada
Scientist (Dead or Alive) you would invite to dinner: E. O. Wilson and George Church
Paper that greatly impacted you: Fischer  KR, et al. Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition is not required for lung metastasis but contributes to chemoresistance. Nature 2015
In my time off I enjoy: playing basketball, hiking and watching movies

Hometown: Johnstown, PA
Scientist (Dead or Alive) you would invite to dinner: Donald Coffey, who had a profound impact on the prostate cancer research field and, by all accounts, was a man who overflowed with wisdom
Paper that greatly impacted you: The dual reports on the sequencing of the human genome in 2001. It is hard to overstate how dramatically this discovery has affected nearly every aspect of modern research.
In my time off I enjoy: Exploring local coffee shops and breweries, listening to a range of assorted podcasts and keeping up on the latest computer tech and gadgets.

Hometown: Tambov, Russia
Scientist (Dead or Alive) you would invite to dinner: My former mentors – Jon Chernoff and Karen Knudsen. I’ll cook.
Paper that greatly impacted you: The Crick-Brenner experiment remains one of my favorites.
In my time off I enjoy: Social dancing, portrait photography, traveling and sightseeing, hiking of course!
 

Hometown: Columbus, Ohio
Scientist (Dead or Alive) you would invite to dinner: Richard Feynman
Paper that greatly impacted you: What Is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell by Erwin Schrödinger
In my time off I enjoy: Powerlifting, cooking, reading, and going to the movies!
 

Hometown: Jorhat, Assam, India
Scientist (Dead or Alive) you would invite to dinner: Gregor Johann Mendel and Frederick Sanger
Paper that greatly impacted you: DNA sequencing with chain-terminating inhibitors by F. Sanger, S. Nicklen and A.R. Coulson published in 1977.

 In my time off I enjoy: Gardening on a sunny day, reading on a rainy day and hiking on a breezy day.

Hometown:  Olympia, WA
Scientist (Dead or Alive) you would invite to dinner:  Thomas Edison
Paper that greatly impacted you:  the book “Being Mortal” by Dr. Atul Gawande
In my time off I enjoy:  Reading

Email: ytao@fredhutch.org
Hometown: Wuhan City, China
In my time off I enjoy: Driving

Hometown:  Ehime, Japan
Scientist (Dead or Alive) you would invite to dinner:  Jokichi Takamine and Hideyo Noguchi
Paper that greatly impacted you:  Engagement of the PD-1 Immunoinhibitory Receptor by a Novel B7 Family Member Leads to Negative Regulation of Lymphocyte Activation
In my time off I enjoy:  Running, Singing

Birthplace: Wuhan, China
Scientist (Dead or Alive) you would invite to dinner: Tu Youyou
Favorite Book: Amusing Ourselves to Death
Favorite Movie: Hedwig and the Angry Inch
In my time off I enjoy: going to theater to see live shows (musicals, plays etc.), travel, watching movies, playing Nintendo games
 

Birthplace: Tabriz, Iran
Scientist (Dead or Alive) you would invite to dinner: Charles B. Huggins and Elwood V. Jensen
Favorite Book: Animal Farm by George Orwell (1945).
Favorite Movie: Casablanca (1942)
In my time off I enjoy: Playing the violin, Spending time with friends, Learning to explore the night sky
 

Hometown: Seattle, WA

In my time off I enjoy:  Cooking, reading, spending time with family & friends, and working on projects around the house.

Hometown: Seattle, WA
In my time off I enjoy: backpacking, reading, diving