Past Featured Science Watch® Interviewed Scientists: 2007 Berkeley’s Alex Filippenko on The Accelerating Universe Columbia’s Jeffrey Lieberman Takes On Schizophrenia Yale’s Josephine Hoh: An Eye for Disease Genes HRI’s Ashoke Sen Surveys the Current Landscape of String Theory XMPI’s Matthias Mann on Mass Spectrometry in Biochemistry Penn’s Virginia M.-Y. Lee on Neurodegenerative Disease 2006 Cambridge’s Randy J. Read: Crystallography vs. Disease U. Washington’s Younan Xia–An Eye on Nanotech’s Big Picture MIT’s Max Tegmark: Clusters, Clumps, and the SDSS STAR’s Tim Hallman Hunts for Quark-Gluon Plasma Harvard’s Marc A. Pfeffer On Blockbuster Cardio Trials HHMI’s Joan Massagué on TGF-b and Metastasis 2005 Salk’s Fred H. Gage on Neurogenesis in the Adult Brain UCLA’s J. Fraser Stoddart on Switching to Molecular Electronics Genoscope’s Jean Weissenbach: Less on “Omics,” More on the Basics Joslin’s C. Ronald Kahn, M.D., on Recent Insulin Insights  JHU’s Charles L. Bennett on the Hot Microwave Mission OSU’s Arkady A. Tseytlin Dishes String/Gauge Duality 2004 U. Michigan’s Omar Yaghi on What's In Store for MOFs Malik Peiris on Containing SARS and Watching for What’s Next Oxford’s Rory Collins: On the Straight Line to Medical Insights ISB’s Ruedi Aebersold on the Challenges of Proteomics Stanford’s Marcia L. Stefanick on the Trials of Hormone Therapy SNO’s Arthur B. McDonald on Nailing Neutrino Mass 2003 NIMR’s Anne O’Garra on Sorting Out Cytokines NIA’s Mark P. Mattson on Neuronal Degeneration Harvard’s Charles Lieber Gets Wise to Nanowires U. Washington’s Krzysztof Palczewski: Clear Vision on GPCRs HHMI’s Brian J. Druker on Bringing STI571 to Bear Against Cancer Cambridge Astrophysicist Andrew C. Fabian: From Rockets to XEUS 2002 Potent Predictor: Paul M. Ridker on CRP and Cardiovascular Disease Lofty Achievement: NOAA’s Susan Solomon on Atmospheric Chemistry George M. Whitesides: Big in Nanotechnology HHMI’s Patrick O. Brown on DNA Microarrays for the Masses Whitehead's Eric S. Lander Assesses the Human Genome Project Small is Bountiful: TIGR's Claire M. Fraser on Microbial Genomes 2001 UT's Eric J. Nestler on the Biochemistry of Addiction FDA's Serge L. Beaucage on 20 Years of Oligonucleotide Synthesis MIT's Lisa Randall: Two Branes are Better Than One Stanford's Savas Dimopoulos: Beyond the Standard Model St. Jude's Martine Roussel Answers the Call of ARF UCLA's James R. Heath Knows Nanocomputers 2000 Amgen Institute's Tak W. Mak: Sighted, Cited in Many Fields NCBI's Stephen F. Altschul on BLASTing Proteins Burnham's John C. Reed: Apropos of Apoptosis Nichia Shuji Nakamura on Blue Laser Diodes HHMI's Hermann Steller on Life with Cell Death 1999 Gillian Bates of King's College on Hunington's Disease HHMI's Gerald M. Rubin on the Drosophila Genome NCI's Curtis C. Harris on p53 and Carcinogenesis Black Holes and Beyond: Harvard's Andrew Strominger on string Theory UCSD's Michael Karin on Signaling Pathways MIT's Wolfgang Ketterle Gets Coherent on Atoms 1998 UCSF's Frank McCormick: Cold Calculation on Cancer HHMI's Thomas M. Jessell on Cell Differentiation Botanist Ghillean Prance Champions Biodiversity HHMI's Graeme Bell on the Genetics of Diabetes Timothy A. Springer on Cell Adhesion Molecules Protein Pro: NIH's Ad Bax on NMR Spectroscopy 1997 HHMI's Marc Tessier-Lavigne on Nerve-Cell Connections TIGR's J. Craig Venter on Sequences, Consequences *HHMI's Roger J. Davis on MAP Kinase Pathways *Ecologist John H. Lawton: Seeking Patterns in Ecosystems *Eric M. Gordon Discusses Combinatorial Replacement *Jacqueline Barton on Metal Complexes and DNA 1996 *Steven Weinberg on the Ultimate Field Theory *Yale's Arthur Horwich on Protein Chaperones *Univ. of Sheffield's Philip Grime on Plant Ecology *UNIAID's Anthony S. Fauci on 15 Years of AIDS Research *Harvard's Tony Evans Gets Tough with Ceramic Composites *Philippa Marrack Targets T Cells and Autoimmune Disease 1995 Making Penicillin Possible: Norman Heatley Remembers *K. Barry Sharpless Battles Evil Twins IAS's John N. Bahcall Probes the Lightweight Universe George Papanicolaou Seeks Order in Turbulence Harvard's Walter C. Willett on Epidemiology Sir Roy Calne Pursues Higher Tolerance in Transplantation Sir Alec Jeffreys on DNA Profiling and Minisatellites *Thierry Boon on Cancer Immunotherapy Chemist and Writer: An Interview with Roald Hoffmann Stuart L. Schreiber Brings the Right Chemistry to Cell Biology 1994 *Tony Hunter Seeks Secrets of Transduction *Laval's Fernand Labrie on Hormones and Cancer *Stephen Hawking on the Theory of Everything, Among Other Things *Pierre Sokoloff on Schizopherina and the D3 Receptor *Caltech's Don Anderson Sizes Up Seismology *Joseph Schlessinger Recaps Ras Signaling *Astronomer Martin Rees Eyes Active Galaxies *Pierre Chambon Surveys Retinoid Research *Steve Ley Looks to Organic Chemistry's Future 1993 *U. Penn's Stephen Thom on Hyperbaric Medicine *Elizabeth Blackburn's True Tales of Telomeres *Salim Yusuf Discusses the Making of Meta-Analysis *Univ. Utah's Mario Capecchi on Gene Targetting *Leigh Canham Sees Bright Future for Porous Silicon *Max Essex Assesses Trends in AIDS Research *Glasgow's Chris Wilkinson Makes Waves in Engineering *Biologist Axel Ullrich Seeks Cell Signaling Secrets 1992 *MIT's Alan Guth; COBE Findings, Inflation and the Big Bang *Robert Weinberg Explains the Rise in Research on Tumor Suppressor Genes *Salk Institute's Ron Evans Surveys Retinoid Research *Rudolph Marcus Reflects on Nobel Prize Winning Work *IBM's Stuart Parkin Mulls Multilayered Metallic Films *Immunologist Tim Mosmann Targets T-Cell Subtypes *F. Sherwood Rowland on the Science and Politics of Ozone Depletion *La Jolla's Erkki Ruoslahti on Integrins, Proteoglycans *Peter H. Seeburg on Brain Receptor Functions *Harold Kroto on the Celestial Sphere that Fell to Earth 1991 *Valerie Beral Tracks the Agent of Kaposi's Sarcoma *Loyola University Team *Michael J. Berridge on Insositol Phosphates & Cell Signaling *Oxford's Roger Penrose Looks for Links Between the Quantum & Classical *Caltech's Ahmed Zewail on the Fast Moving World of Femtochemistry *Stanford's Ron Davis Reflects on the Rise of Yeast Studies *USC's Caleb Finch on the Neurobiology of Aging *Physicist Frank Wilczek asks, "Anyons, anyone?" *Rockefeller University's Jules Hiesch Discusses Research on Obesity 1990 *Emmanuel Desurvire of Columbia University on Erbium Fiber Amplifiers *Robert Tjian of UC Berkeley on Transcription Factors and Gene Expression *Bert Vogelstein of Johns Hopkins University Closes In on Colorectal Cancer *John Luong Discusses the Boom in Biosensor Research and Commercialization *Richard Potember Explores TCNQ Films for Erasable Optical Storage *UCI's Francisco Ayala on Clonal Reproduction in Parasitic Protozoa *MIT's Mark Wrighton on a new Solar Energy Conversion Technique *R&D Chief Patrick Gage of Genetics Institute on Company Activities *Nobel Laureate Donald Cram on Carceplexes

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