Hometown: Cambridge, ID
Scientist (Dead or Alive) you would invite to dinner: Gregor Mendel
Paper that greatly impacted you: Todd Golub’s “Molecular classification of cancer: class discovery and class prediction by gene expression monitoring“
In my time off I enjoy: Being outside, nature, reading, family

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: 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: Mashhad, Iran
Favorite book: The Alchemist
Favorite movie: Memoirs of a Geisha
Scientist (Dead or Alive) you would invite to dinner: Sigmund Freud
Paper that greatly impacted you: The lived experience of psychosis: a bottom-up review co-written by experts by experience and academics
In my time off I enjoy: Watching movies, photography, cooking, running, discovering new dishes.

Hometown: Seattle, WA
Scientist (Dead or Alive) you would invite to dinner: Francis Collins
In my time off I enjoy: Gardening, travel, and spending time with family and friends.

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: 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: Jakarta, Indonesia
Scientist (Dead or Alive) you would invite to dinner: Nikola Tesla
Favorite Book: Bible
Favorite Movie: Coraline
Paper that greatly impacted you: Prostate Cancer Review: Genetics, Diagnosis, Treatment Options and Alternative Approaches
In my time off I enjoy: Cooking, baking, watching movies, K-pop dance

Hometown: Rochester, Minnesota
In my time off I enjoy: Gardening, Hiking

Hometown: Burien, WA
Scientist (Dead or Alive) you would invite to dinner: Marie Curie
Favorite Book: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Favorite Movie: Kill Bill
Paper that greatly impacted you: Enzymatic Assay for Rapid Measurement of Antiretroviral Drug Levels. (A. Olanrewaju et.al)
In my time off I enjoy: Reading, hiking, crocheting, discovering new music

Hometown: Shandong, China
Scientist (Dead or Alive) you would invite to dinner: Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Favorite Book: The Robot
Favorite Movie: Star Wars
Paper that greatly impacted you: Electroporation and RNA interference in the rodent retina in vivo and in vitro,  which taught me about critical thinking in my early phase of scientific training; 
In my time off I enjoy: biking, hiking, reading, traveling,  spending quality time with family and friends

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: Dhaka, Bangladesh
Scientist (Dead or Alive) you would invite to dinner: Leonardo Da Vinci, Albert Einstein, George Church
Paper that greatly impacted you: Papers contributing to the evolution of CRISPR/Cas technology as a powerful tool for human genome editing. Originally an embedded bacterial and archaeal defense mechanism, CRISPR is now crafted for gene editing, knockout, inhibition and activation – truly amazing!
In my time off I enjoy: Hiking, playing badminton, spending time with family and friends.

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: 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.

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: Los Angeles, CA
Scientist (Dead or Alive) you would invite to dinner: Sidney Farber
Paper that greatly impacted you: The Hallmarks of Cancer
In my time off I enjoy: Exploring new restaurants, bread baking, pickleball

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

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: New Delhi, India
Scientist (Dead or Alive) you would invite to dinner: Satyendra Nath Bose, Robert Weinberg and C V Raman,
Paper that greatly impacted you: Targeting the Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal
Transition: The Case for Differentiation-Based Therapy.
In my time off I enjoy: Yoga and Reading Novels

Hometown: Changsha, China
Scientist (Dead or Alive) you would invite to dinner: My mentors in PhD study: Andrew Scharenberg, Fyodor Urnov, and Pavel Zrazhevskiy
Favorite Book: The Seventh Day by Hua Yu
Favorite Movie: The Shawshank Redemption
Paper that greatly impacted you: Inheritable Silencing of Endogenous Genes by Hit-and-Run Targeted Epigenetic Editing.
In my time off I enjoy: Hiking, reading, listen to classical music, traveling, trying new sports, learning new languages, cheering for the Mariners.