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This support allows the Academy to bring together leaders from academia, industry, government, and the global scientific community to take on today’s most urgent challenges, sparking new ideas, fostering meaningful collaborations, and driving discovery.
Below we are honored to acknowledge those individuals who have donated to The New York Academy of Sciences in 2025. Thank you for advancing science for the public good.

Allan Abati

Margarita Alegria

Philip W. Apruzzese

Nour Attafi

Armen Avanessians

Mary Jean Babic

Karen Isabel Bedrosian-Richardson

Shannon Boettcher

Robert Bomersbach

Irina Bondareva

Kate Bostock-Shefferman

Ben Boyum

Kathleen Brandt

José Braz

Thomas Brosnan

Stewart Butterfield

John Callen

Robert B. Catell

Jonathan Charry

Xi Chen

Ruonan Chen

Karla Childers

David Cornell

Isabela Sean Ninobla Cosep

Alberto Cribiore

Kristen Dahlgren

Steve and Roberta Denning

Nicholas B. Dirks

Erica Duncan

MaryEllen Elia

Cristiana Falcone

Xiang Fang

Deborah Farrington

Marc Fasteau

Stuart Firestein

Mike Foley

George Frampton

Thomas C. Franco

Michael D. Fricklas

Dakila Gabutan

Anat Gerstein

Nomi P. Ghez

Barbara Knappmeyer and Paul Glimcher

Joseph Golden

Thomas Golway

Rolando Gonzalez

Joel Gordon

Trudy Elbaum Gottesman and Robert Gottesman

Alexander Gottfried

Nina Gray

Meghan Groome

John Haitch

Jeffrey Halis

Lorraine Hariton

Penny M. Heaton

Paul Horn

Jerry Hultin

Anna Irwin

Juan Jimenez

Marcha Johnson

Tetsuo Kaneko

Kyle Kaniecki

Ralph Kaslick

Anthony Knerr

George Koliakos

Brian Krisberg

Seema Kumar

Antonina Kuzhym

R. May Lee and John P. Hall III

Jacqueline Leo

Liuping Lin

John Litke

Stavros Lomvardas

Jeffrey H. Lynford

Vanessa Lyon-Panie

David Mantione

Stephanie Marchesi

Alex Martin

Katherine McConvey

Richard L. Menschel and Ronay Menschel

Amber Miller

Luis Minier

Artem Mishchenko

Lopa Mishra

David K A Mordecai

Peter Salovey and Marta Elisa Moret

Eric Rudolph Mortensen

Mohandas Narla

Chitra Nawbatt

Arash Nikoubashman

Alexander Nirenberg

Frank Orlowski

Robert Paaswell

Laura Palmer

Virginia Papaioannou

Joseph Parrish

Evan Picoult

Brianna Polite

Nancy Rawson

Jim Reddoch

Siddhanth Relan

Ada Reza

Charles Rice

Frank Rizzo

Jose (Pepe) Rodriguez

Geoffrey Roehm

Mace Rothenberg

Laura B. Sachar

Catherine Sarquiz

Theodore Schell

Hans Schön

Neil Schore

Konstantin Shakhnovich

Jeff Shaman

Lisa Shields

Robert Slone

Maksim Stavinsky

Robin B. Stephenson

Subra Suresh

Irina Svirska

Ken Miller and Lybess Sweezy

Masaki Tan

Chandrika Krishnamurthy Tandon

Beicer Tapia

David G. Taylor

Alice Taylor

Peter Thorén

Henry Tippens-Richan

Anjana Tiwari

Sabine Topka

Ahmed Toslim

Nolan Townsend

José Carlos Verde Braz

Jean Voldman

Viviana Volta

Jeanne and H. Michael Williams

Karl Wittig

Mary Woolley

Joseph Yavitt

Laszlo Zaborszky

Mikah Zayas

Tingting Zhang Kharas

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