- Committee's CURRENT MEMBERSHIP follows - Dr. Martin Chalfie*; NAS/NAM (Chair); Columbia University Dr. Mary Jane West-Eberhard; NAS (Vice Chair); Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Dr. Chris Beyrer; NAM; Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Dr. John Carlson; NAS; Yale University Dr. Christine K. Cassel; NAM; University of California, San Francisco Dr. M. T. Clegg; NAS; University of California, Irvine Dr. Carlos del Rio; NAM (Ex Official Member); National Academy of Medicine Dr. Vanessa Northington Gamble; NAM; The George Washington University Dr. John G. Hildebrand; NAS (Ex Officio Member); National Academy of Sciences Dr. John G. Kassakian; NAE; Massachusetts Institute of Technology Dr. Michael Katz; NAM; Columbia University/Stanford University Dr. Anthony Leggett*; NAS; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dr. Elaine S. Oran; NAE; Texas A&M University Dr. Elsa Reichmanis; NAE; Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. James Tien; NAE (Ex Officio Member); National Academy of Engineering - Committee's FORMER CHAIRS follow– Dr. Robert W. Kates; NAS (Chair, 1976-1979); University of Maine Dr. Lipman Bers; NAS (Chair, 1979-1984); Columbia University Dr. Eliot Stellar; NAS/NAM (Chair, 1984-1993); University of Pennsylvania Dr. Torsten N. Wiesel*; NAS/NAM (Chair, 1994-2004); The Rockefeller University Dr. Peter C. Agre*; NAS/NAM (Chair, 2005-2007); Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Dr. Sidney Verba; NAS (Chair, 2008-2014); Harvard University *Nobel Laureate - Committee's PAST MEMBERSHIP follows (Sorted By Last Name) – Dr. Andreas Acrivos; NAS/NAE; The City College of the City University of New York Dr. Peter C. Agre*; NAS/NAM (Former Chair); Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Dr. Bruce Alberts; NAS; University of California, San Francisco Dr. Sidney Altman*; NAS; Yale University Dr. C. B. Anfinsen*; NAS; Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Prof. George J. Annas; NAM; Boston University Prof. Kenneth J. Arrow*; NAS/NAM; Stanford University Dr. Mary Ellen Avery; NAS/NAM; Children's Hospital Boston Dr. J. Michael Bishop*; NAS/NAM; University of California, San Francisco Dr. Mina J. Bissell; NAS/NAM; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Dr. Baruch S. Blumberg*; NAS/NAM; Fox Chase Cancer Center Dr. Herbert W. Boyer; NAS; University of California, San Francisco Dr. George Bugliarello; NAE; Polytechnic Institute of NYU Mr. Robert A. Burt; NAM; Yale University Dr. Martin Chalfie; NAS/NAM; Columbia University Dr. Francis V. Chisari; NAS/NAM; The Scripps Research Institute Dr. Elizabeth F. Colson; NAS; University of California, Berkeley Dr. Robert F. Curl, Jr.*; NAS; Rice University Dr. Ruth David; NAE (Ex Officio Member); National Academy of Engineering Dr. Gerard Debreu*; NAS; Universite de Paris Dr. Mildred S. Dresselhaus; NAS/NAE; Massachusetts Institute of Technology Dr. Daniel C. Drucker; NAE; University of Florida Dr. Renato Dulbecco; NAS; Salk Institute for Biological Studies Dr. Felton J. Earls; NAM; Harvard School of Public Health *Nobel Laureate Dr. Thomas Eisner; NAS; Cornell University Dr. Farouk El-Baz; NAE; Boston University Dr. Gertrude B. Elion*; NAS/NAM; Glaxo Wellcome Inc. Dr. Paul J. Flory*; NAS; Stanford University Dr. Henry W. Foster, Jr.; NAM; Meharry Medical College Dr. Gertrude S. Goldhaber; NAS; Brookhaven National Laboratory Dr. Margaret Hamburg; NAM (Ex Officio Member); National Academy of Medicine Dr. Leland H. Hartwell*; NAS; Arizona State University Dr. M. Alfred Haynes; NAM Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh; NAS; University of Notre Dame Dr. Sarah B. Hrdy; NAS; University of California, Davis Dr. Sandral Hullett; NAM Dr. Dorothea Jameson; NAS; University of Pennsylvania Dr. David Japikse; NAE; Concepts NREC Dr. Mary Ellen Jones; NAS/NAM; University of North Carolina, School of Medicine Dr. Eugenia Kalnay; NAE; University of Maryland, College Park Dr. Yuet Wai Kan; NAS/NAM; University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine Dr. Jerome Karle*; NAS; Naval Research Laboratory Dr. Lawrence R. Klein*; NAS; University of Pennsylvania Dr. Robert S. Lawrence; NAM; Johns Hopkins University Dr. Francis E. Low; NAS; Massachusetts Institute of Technology Dr. George I. Lythcott; NAM; New York City Department of Health Dr. Harold A. Mooney; NAS; Stanford University Dr. Daniel Nathans*; NAS; Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Dr. Daniel A. Okun; NAE/NAM; The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill *Nobel Laureate Dr. Donald S. Ornstein; NAS; Stanford University Dr. M. J. Osborn; NAS; University of Connecticut Health Center Dr. Morton B. Panish; NAS/NAE; AT&T Bell Laboratories [Retired] Dr. Robert Palese Perry; NAS; Fox Chase Cancer Center Mr. Robert A. Pritzker; NAE; Colson Associates, Inc. Dr. Helen M. Ranney; NAS/NAM; University of California, San Diego Dr. Peter H. Raven; NAS; Missouri Botanical Garden Dr. Vera C. Rubin; NAS; Carnegie Institution for Science Dr. Malvin A. Ruderman; NAS; Columbia University Dr. Berta V. Scharrer; NAS; Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva Uni Dr. Andrew M. Sessler; NAS; E. O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Dr. Beth A. Simmons; NAS; Harvard University Dr. William P. Slichter; NAE; AT&T Bell Laboratories Dr. Albert J. Solnit; NAM; Yale University School of Medicine Dr. Katepalli R. Sreenivasan; NAS/NAE; New York University Dr. Lubert Stryer; NAS; Stanford University School of Medicine Dr. Charles H. Townes*; NAS/NAE; University of California, Berkeley Dr. Sam Treiman; NAS; Princeton University Dr. Fawwaz Ulaby; NAE; University of Michigan Dr. Martha Vaughan; NAS; National Institutes of Health Dr. Inder Verma; NAM/NAM; Salk Institute for Biological Studies Dr. Salih J. Wakil; NAS; Baylor College of Medicine Dr. Julia R. Weertman; NAE; Northwestern University Dr. Mary Jane West-Eberhard; NAS; Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Dr. Gilbert F. White; NAS; University of Colorado Boulder *Nobel Laureate Dr. C. S. Wu; NAS; Columbia University Dr. James B. Wyngaarden; NAS/NAM; Duke University Mr. Adam Yarmolinsky; NAM (Advisor); University of Maryland Baltimore County Dr. Tilahun D. Yilma; NAS; University of California, Davis School of Medicine Dr. E-an Zen; NAS; University of Maryland, College Park *Nobel Laureate .