Dr. Atul Goel – He developed a technique that is becoming the global standard for treatment of basilar invagination. He calls his technique the atlantoaxial facetal distraction and craniovertebral realignment, which is replacing the standard technique of surgery through the mouth.

Hari Gobind Khorana – Khorana was one of the pioneers in genetics and biotechnology. His work with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley on the order of nucleotides in nucleic acids, carrying the genetic code, earned him the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, in 1968. He also made another breakthrough in the field, becoming the first to synthesize an artificial gene into a living cell.

Wilson Greatbatch – He was an American electrical engineer, invented the first implantable cardiac pacemaker, in 1958. He also invented pacemaker batteries, which were essential to its function. The invention of the transistor meant that the electrodes which the pacemaker relied on, no longer used vacuum tubes, and a small device could be used.

Nicholas A. Peppas – He is a chemical and biomedical engineer having expertise in biomaterials science and engineering, drug delivery, nanotechnology, pharmaceutical sciences, chemical and polymer engineering. Peppas is a leading researcher, inventor and pacesetter in the field of drug delivery and controlled release.