Co-director, Harvard Stem Cell Institute
Age: 53
For awhile it looked as though the South Koreans were winning the race to find real-world uses for human stem cells. But when their research program melted down in a data-faking scandal, Melton emerged as the prime mover in a field that could someday offer treatments for everything from cancer to diabetes to Parkinson's disease. Age: 53
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