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Taft Armandroff Jr.’82—Director of the W.M. Keck observatory in Hawaii

Dr. Herbert Benson ’57—Founding president of the Mind/Body Medical  Institute; author of The Relaxation Response

Joshua Boger ’73—President and CEO, Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Dr. Jennifer Tour Chayes '79- Microsoft Research. Dr. Chayes is one of the first women to direct a research lab in America. Dr Chayes "built the Theory Group, one of the most eminent research groups on or off any university campus".

John Coffin '66 -American Cancer Society Research Professor at Tufts University. Coffin is one of the country's most distinguished molecular biologists.

Robin Cook ’62—Medical mystery writer whose books include Abduction, Chromosome 6, Coma, Shock, and many other bestsellers

Dr. Joseph J. Fins ’82—MD, Division of Medical Ethics New York Presbyterian Hospital -Weill Cornell Center

Dr. Laman Gray Jr. ’63—Leader in the fields of cardiovascular surgery and development of artificial hearts and circulatory support systems; implanted the world's first self-contained artificial heart, the AbioCor

Dr. Jay Levy ’60—AIDS researcher and educator; professor, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

Emilie A. L. Marcus ’82—Editor of Cell Magazine

Dr. Michael Palmer ’64—Medical mystery writer whose books include Side Effects, Flashback, Extreme Measures, and Natural Causes