| Kurt J. Amann | Microbiology Biology, Biochemistry | | 1999 | 2002 | Thomas Dean Pollard (post-doc) |
| Marc Ballivet | Visual system, Acetylcholine receptor, retina | | | | Steve F. Heinemann (grad student) |
| David Baltimore | Virology, Oncogenes, Immunology, Gene Regulation | | 1965 | 1968 | Renato Dulbecco (research scientist) |
| Sagar P. Bapat | | | 2009 | 2017 | Ye Zheng (grad student), Ronald M. Evans (grad student) |
| Phillip W. Berman | Drug development, vaccines, AIDS, monoclonal antibody therapeutics, immunology, molecular cell/biology, recombinant protein production | | 1977 | 1981 | Steve F. Heinemann (post-doc) |
| Antonius J.M. Berns | Molecular Genetics | | | 1976 | Rudolf Jaenisch (post-doc) |
| Sydney Brenner | C. Elegans | | | | |
| Dennis A. Carson | drug-development | | 1970 | 1972 | Martin G. Weigert (post-doc) |
| Martin Chalfie | C. elegans | | | | Sydney Brenner (post-doc) |
| Ukrae Cho | | | 2017 | | Martin W. Hetzer (post-doc) |
| Senyon Choe | potassium channels, TGF-beta receptors, and a membrane-integrating Bacillus protein, Mistic. | | | | |
| Melvin Cohn | immune response | | | | |
| Francis Harry Compton Crick | molecular biology / Consciousness | | | | |
| Jeroen den Hertog | Molecular developmental zoology | | | 1994 | Tony Hunter (post-doc) |
| Namrita Dhillon | | | 1990 | 1994 | Merle Hoekstra (post-doc) |
| Daniel J. Donoghue | Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptors (FGFRs) in Human Cancer | | | 1982 | Tony Hunter (post-doc) |
| Renato Dulbecco | | | | | |
| Walter Eckhart | cancer-causing genes (oncogenes), growth factors, and communication between adjacent cells (gap junctional intercellular communication) | | | | |
| Elizabeth I. Flandreau | Stress Neurobiology | | 2009 | 2012 | Wylie Vale (post-doc) |
| Roger Guillemin | Neuroendocrinology | | | | |
| Sung Han | Neural circuit based understandings of brain disorders | | | | |
| Steven K. Hanks | Cell Biology, Biochemistry | MBVL | | | Robert W. Holley (post-doc) |
| Diana C. Hargreaves | | MCBL | | | Ruslan Medzhitov (grad student), Gerald Crabtree (post-doc) |
| Merle Hoekstra | | | | | |
| Robert W. Holley | Cellular and Developmental Biology | | | | |
| Christopher P. Horoszko | carbon nanotubes, photoelectrochemistry, bioanalytical chemistry, cancer pharmacology | | | | Wylie Vale (research assistant) |
| Arthur L. Horwich | chaperonins | | | | Walter Eckhart (post-doc) |
| Tony Hunter | growth control and cell cycle regulation | | | | Walter Eckhart (post-doc) |
| Joseph Martin Jez | Biochemistry, General Biophysics | Structural Biology Laboratory | | | Joseph P. Noel (post-doc) |
| Claudio Joazeiro | E3 Ubiquitin Ligases | MCBL | 1996 | 2001 | Tony Hunter (post-doc) |
| Ankana Kakoti | | | | | |
| Douglas A. Lappi | Toxins, ribosome-inactivating proteins | Laboratories for Neuroendocrinology | 1982 | 1984 | Roger Guillemin (research assistant) |
| Travis Lee | | | | | Joseph R. Ecker (post-doc) |
| Edwin S. Lennox | | | | | |
| Michael Levitt | computational structural biology | | 1977 | 1979 | Francis Harry Compton Crick (post-doc) |
| Thomas F Martinez | Characterizing smORFs, Translation, DNA Damage Response | Peptide Biology Laboratory | 2015 | 2019 | Alan Saghatelian (post-doc) |
| Fritz Melchers | | | 1965 | 1967 | Paul Knopf (post-doc), Edwin S. Lennox (post-doc) |
| Roland Dyche Mullins | Cell Biology, Biochemistry, Actin | | 1994 | 1998 | Thomas Dean Pollard (post-doc) |
| Venkatesh N. Murthy | information processing by neural circuits | | 1994 | 1998 | Charles F. Stevens (post-doc), Terrence J. Sejnowski (post-doc) |
| Daniel J. Needleman | Physics of Macromolecular Assemblies and Subcellular Organization | | 1998 | 1999 | Terrence J. Sejnowski (research assistant) |
| Leslie E. Orgel | theoretical inorganic chemistry, Origins of Life | | | | |
| Satchin Panda | | | | | |
| Thomas Dean Pollard | Cell Biology, Biochemistry, Actin | | | | |
| Lincoln R. Potter | Biochemistry | | | | Tony Hunter (post-doc) |
| Manohar Ratnam | Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Oncology | | | 1986 | Jon M. Lindstrom (post-doc) |
| John Kenneth Rose | Molecular Virology | | | | |
| David Leon Rousso | Neurogenesis, synapse formation | | 2003 | 2005 | Alon Chen (research assistant) |
| Harry Rubin | regulation of tumor development | | | | Renato Dulbecco (post-doc) |
| Jonas Salk | polio vaccine | | | | |
| David V. Schaffer | viral gene delivery, stem cells | | 1998 | 1999 | Fred H. (Rusty) Gage (post-doc) |
| John E. Sulston | Apoptosis, developement | | | | Leslie E. Orgel (post-doc) |
| Ian S. Trowbridge | immunology | | | | |
| Eric Velazquez | | ANATOMY AND NEUROBIOLOGY | | | Xiangmin Xu (post-doc) |
| Inder M. Verma | genetics and gene therapy | | | | |
| Marian L. Waterman | Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Biochemistry, Oncology | | | | Katherine A. Jones (post-doc) |
| Martin G. Weigert | Lupus and Immunology | | | | Melvin Cohn (research scientist) |
| Robert A. Weinberg | oncogenes | | | | Renato Dulbecco (post-doc) |
| Jing-Ke Weng | plant metabolism | | 2009 | 2013 | Joseph P. Noel (post-doc) |