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Nyas-2000-Magazine-Spring-2020.Pdf SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: COVID-19 RESOURCES p5 THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF CIENCES SMAGAZINE • SPRING 2020 SO BLE LUTI A ON IN S TA F S O U R S T E H L E B W A OR R T LD’S DINNE A look at challenges and opportunities in food and nutrition science research. WWW.NYAS.ORG BOARD OF GOVERNORS 2019-2020 Current as of September 18, 2019 CHAIR Functions, Governance & Seema Kumar, Vice Pres- Lowell Robinson, Corporate Nadav Zafrir, Co-Founder, Resilience Centre, Chairman Hon. Jerry MacArthur Compliance, PepsiCo ident of Innovation, Global Director and Advisor; serves Chief Executive Officer, of the EAT Advisory Board Hultin, Chair and Co-Founder Jacqueline Corbelli, Health and Science Policy as Director of Aratana TEAM8, Inc. Paul Stoffels, Vice Chair of of Global Futures Group, LLC Chairman, CEO and Communication for Johnson Therapeutics INTERNATIONAL BOARD the Executive Committee VICE-CHAIR Co-Founder, BrightLine & Johnson Konstantin Shakhnovich, OF GOVERNORS and Chief Scientific Officer, Thomas Pompidou, Founder Mikael Dolsten, President, R. May Lee, Global thought former Goldman Sachs Seth F. Berkley, Chief Johnson & Johnson and Partner at Marker, LLC Worldwide Research and leader on innovation/digital Partner, Head of Systematic Executive Officer, The Global CHAIRS EMERITI TREASURER Development; Senior Vice transformation, education Market-Making (retired) Alliance for Vaccines and John E. Sexton, Former Pres- Laura Sachar, Managing President, Pfizer Inc and gender workplace issues Peter Thorén, Executive Immunization ident, New York University Partner and Co-Founder, MaryEllen Elia, Senior Fellow, Pablo Legorreta, Founder Vice President, Access Stefan Catsicas, Chief Tech- Torsten N. Wiesel, StarVest Partners International Center for Lead- and CEO, Royalty Pharma Industries nology Officer Nestlé S.A. Nobel Laureate & former PRESIDENT ership in Education (ICLE), a David K.A. Mordecai, Manuela Veloso, Head of Gerald Chan, Co-Founder, Secretary-General, Human Nicholas Dirks, President division of learning company Co-Managing Member, Artificial Intelligence Re- Morningside Group Frontier Science Program and CEO, New York Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Numerati Partners, LLC, search, J. P. Morgan Alice P. Gast, President, Organization; President Academy of Sciences Elaine Fuchs, Rebecca C. RiskEcon Lab for Decision Grace Wang, Senior Vice Imperial College, London Emeritus, Metrics, Courant Institute The Rockefeller University PRESIDENT EMERITUS Lancefield Professor in Chancellor for Research and S. “Kris” Gopalakrishnan, for Mathematical Sciences Ellis Rubinstein Mammalian Cell Biology and Economic Development Chairman, Axilor Ventures/ Nancy Zimpher, Chancellor NYU, and Co-Founder, Risk SECRETARY Development, The Rockefel- for the State University Co-founder Infosys Emeritus, The State Universi- ler University; Investigator, Economics, Inc. of New York (SUNY) and ty of New York (SUNY) Larry Smith, New York Toni Hoover, Director Howard Hughes Medical Gregory A. Petsko, Interim President for SUNY Academy of Sciences Strategy Planning and HONORARY LIFE Institute Professor of Neurology at Polytechnic Institute Management and COO for GOVERNORS GOVERNORS Weill Cornell Medicine in Paul Horn, New York Univer- Michael Young, Nobel Lau- the Global Health Program, Karen E. 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