Jury Members
Vilcek Prize in Biomedical Science
2009
Dr. Claudio Basilico
Professor and Chairman,
Department of Microbiology,
NYU School of Medicine
Dr. Joan Massague
Chairman of the Cancer Biology and Genetics Program,
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Dr. Bruce Cronstein
Professor of Medicine,
Pathology and Pharmacology,
NYU School of Medicine
Dr. Inder Verma
American Cancer Society Professor of Molecular Biology,
The Salk Institute
Dr. Rudolf Jaenisch
Member, Whitehead Institute,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dr. Jan Vilcek
Professor of Microbiology,
NYU School of Medicine
Vilcek Prize in Filmmaking
2009
Rudy Behlmer
Film Historian
Rick Jewell
Professor,
USC School of Cinematic Arts
Chuck Boller
Executive Director, The Hawaii International Film Festival
Rajendra Roy
The Celeste Bartos Chief Curator of Film,
The Museum of Modern Art
Geoffrey Gilmore
Director,
The Sundance Film Festival
Richard Schickel
Film Critic,
TIME Magazine
Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science
2009
Dr. Heran Darwin
Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology,
NYU School of Medicine
Dr. Leslie B. Vosshall
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Robin Chemers Neustein Professor, The Rockefeller University
Dr. Laurie Dempsey
Senior Editor,
Nature Immunology
Nicholas Wade
Science Department,
The New York Times
Dr. Peter Palese
Professor and Chair, Department of Microbiology,
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Dr. Jedd Wolchok
Director of Immunotherapy,
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Dr. Jan Vilcek
Professor of Microbiology,
NYU School of Medicine
Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Filmmaking
2009
Sheril D. Antonio
Associate Professor,
Associate Dean of Film, TV, and New Media,
New York University
Wesley Morris
Film Critic,
The Boston Globe
Rick Kinsel
Executive Director,
The Vilcek Foundation
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Film Critic,
Entertainment Weekly
Ysa Le
Executive Director,
Vietnamese American Arts and Letters Association
Janet Yang
Film Producer
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Current News
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The Vilcek Trophy
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