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- Professor Brian Haynes, Chair of the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McMaster University, Canada
- Dr Steven E Hyman, Provost of Harvard University, USA
- Professor Marc W Kirschner, Head of the Department of Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School, USA
- Professor Philippe Kourilsky, Chair of Singapore Immunology Network, Singapore
- Dr David G Nathan, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, USA
- Sir Paul Nurse, President of the Royal Society in London, UK
- Sir Richard Peto, Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology at the University of Oxford, UK
- Dr Harold E Varmus, Director of National Cancer Institute, USA
- Professor Mitsuhiro Yanagida, Professor of Kyoto University, Graduate School of Biostudies, Japan