# List of members of the National Academy of Sciences (Genetics)

This list is a subsection of the List of members of the National Academy of Sciences, which includes approximately 2,000 members and 350 foreign associates of the United States National Academy of Sciences, each of whom is affiliated with one of 31 disciplinary sections. Each person's name, primary institution, and election year are given.
| Name | Institution | Date |
| Sankar Adhya | National Institutes of Health | 1994 |
| Victor Ambros | University of Massachusetts Medical School | 2007 |
| Angelika Amon (d. 2020) | MIT | 2010 |
| Kathryn Anderson (d. 2020) | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | 2002 |
| Werner Arber | University of Basel | 1984 |
| Bruce Baker (d. 2018) | Stanford University | 1993 |
| Utpal Banerjee | University of California, Los Angeles | 2018 |
| Rodolphe Barrangou | North Carolina State University | 2018 |
| Bonnie Bartel | Rice University | 2016 |
| George Beadle (d. 1989) | Stanford University | 1944 |
| Hugo J. Bellen | Baylor College of Medicine | 2020 |
| Seymour Benzer (d. 2007) | California Institute of Technology | 1961 |
| Sue Biggins | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | 2015 |
| Kerry Bloom | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 2021 |
| Jef D. Boeke | New York University | 2013 |
| Nancy Bonini | University of Pennsylvania | 2012 |
| David Botstein | Princeton University | 1981 |
| Sydney Brenner | Salk Institute for Biological Studies | 1977 |
| Royal Alexander Brink (d. 1984) | University of Wisconsin–Madison | 1947 |
| Allan Campbell (d. 2018) | Stanford University | 1971 |
| John Carlson | Yale University | 2012 |
| Marian Carlson | Columbia University | 2009 |
| L. L. Cavalli-Sforza | Stanford University | 1978 |
| Martin Chalfie | Columbia University | 2004 |
| Louise Chow | University of Alabama at Birmingham | 2012 |
| Thomas Cline | University of California, Berkeley | 1996 |
| Stanley N. Cohen | Stanford University | 1979 |
| Victor Corces | Emory University School of Medicine | 2020 |
| Elizabeth A. Craig | University of Wisconsin–Madison | 1998 |
| James F. Crow (d. 2012) | University of Wisconsin–Madison | 1961 |
| Ronald W. Davis | Stanford University | 1983 |
| Joseph DeRisi | UC San Francisco | 2016 |
| William Dove | University of Wisconsin–Madison | 1998 |
| Monica A. Driscoll | Rutgers University | 2023 |
| Jay Dunlap | Dartmouth College | 2009 |
| Harrison Echols (d. 1993) | University of California, Berkeley | 1991 |
| Robert Stuart Edgar (d. 2016) | University of California, Santa Cruz | 2007 |
| Evan E. Eichler | University of Washington | 2013 |
| Sarah Elgin | Washington University in St. Louis | 2018 |
| Scott Emmons | Albert Einstein College of Medicine | 2024 |
| Ellis Englesberg | University of California, Santa Barbara | 1986 |
| Stanley Fields | University of Washington | 2000 |
| Gerald Fink | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1981 |
| Andrew Fire | Stanford University | 2004 |
| Maurice Fox (d. 2020) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1988 |
| Antonio Garcia-Bellido | Autonomous University of Madrid | 1987 |
| Barry Ganetzky | UW Madison | 2006 |
| Alan Garen (d. 2022) | Yale University | 1971 |
| Martin Gellert | National Institutes of Health | 1986 |
| Michel A. J. Georges | University of Liège | 2013 |
| Norman Giles | University of Georgia | 1966 |
| N. Louise Glass | University of California, Berkeley | 2021 |
| Michael M. Gottesman | National Institutes of Health | 2018 |
| Susan Gottesman | National Institutes of Health | 1998 |
| Daniel E. Gottschling | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | 2011 |
| Melvin M. Green | University of California, Davis | 1980 |
| Iva S. Greenwald | Columbia University | 2005 |
| Shiv Grewal | NIH | 2014 |
| Carol Gross | University of California, San Francisco | 1992 |
| Alan D. Grossman | MIT | 2014 |
| Christine Guthrie (d. 2022) | University of California, San Francisco | 1993 |
| James E. Haber | Brandeis University | 2010 |
| Benjamin D. Hall (d. 2019) | University of Washington | 2014 |
| Jeffrey Hall | Brandeis University | 2003 |
| Philip Hanawalt | Stanford University | 1989 |
| Graham Hatfull | University of Pittsburgh | 2024 |
| R. Scott Hawley | Stowers Institute for Medical Research | 2011 |
| Ulrike Heberlein | HHMI | 2010 |
| Donald Helinski | University of California, San Diego | 1980 |
| Steven Henikoff | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | 2005 |
| Tina Henkin | Ohio State University | 2012 |
| Leonard Herzenberg (d. 2013) | Stanford University | 1982 |
| Philip Hieter | University of British Columbia | 2016 |
| Alan Hinnebusch | NIH | 2015 |
| Ann Hochschild | Harvard Medical School | 2024 |
| Alexander Hollaender (d. 1986) | Associated Universities, Inc. | 1957 |
| Nancy Hopkins | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2004 |
| Anita Hopper | Ohio State University | 2021 |
| Norman Horowitz (geneticist) (d. 2005) | California Institute of Technology | 1969 |
| H. Robert Horvitz | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1991 |
| David Housman | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1994 |
| Harvey Itano (d. 2010) | University of California, San Diego | 1979 |
| Francois Jacob | Institut Pasteur | 1969 |
| Patricia Jacobs | University of Southampton | 2009 |
| Maria Jasin | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | 2015 |
| Nancy Jenkins | Houston Methodist Research Institute | 2008 |
| Sue Jinks-Robertson | Duke University School of Medicine | 2019 |
| Alexander D. Johnson | UC San Francisco | 2011 |
| Mark Johnston (geneticist) | University of Colorado School of Medicine | 2022 |
| A. Dale Kaiser (d. 2010) | Stanford University | 1970 |
| Berwind P. Kaufmann (d. 1975) | | 1952 |
| Scott N. Keeney | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | 2020 |
| Cynthia Kenyon | University of California, San Francisco | 2003 |
| Mary-Claire King | University of Washington | 2005 |
| Nancy Kleckner | Harvard University | 1993 |
| Eugene Koonin | NIH | 2016 |
| Douglas Koshland | UC Berkeley | 2010 |
| Mark Krasnow | Stanford University School of Medicine | 2019 |
| Leonid Kruglyak | University of California, Los Angeles | 2023 |
| Mitzi Kuroda | Harvard University | 2013 |
| Sydney Kustu (d. 2014) | University of California, Berkeley | 1993 |
| Joshua Lederberg | Rockefeller University | 1957 |
| Leonard Lerman | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1986 |
| Edward B. Lewis (d. 2004) | California Institute of Technology | 1968 |
| Michael Lichten | National Institutes of Health | 2022 |
| Susan Lindquist (d. 2016) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1997 |
| Dan Lindsley (d. 2018) | University of California, San Diego | 1974 |
| David Lipman | National Institutes of Health | 2003 |
| John T. Lis | Cornell University | 2015 |
| Susan Lovett | Brandeis University | 2021 |
| Victoria Lundblad | Salk Institute for Biological Studies | 2015 |
| Salvador Luria (d. 1991) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1960 |
| Mary F. Lyon | Medical Research Council | 1979 |
| Boris Magasanik (d. 2013) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1969 |
| Harmit Malik | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center | 2019 |
| Barbara McClintock (d. 1992) | Carnegie Institution of Washington | 1944 |
| Craig Mello | University of Massachusetts Medical School | 2005 |
| M. S. Meselson | Harvard University | 1968 |
| Charles W. Metz (d. 1975) | University of Pennsylvania | 1948 |
| Robert Metzenberg (d. 2007) | University of California, Los Angeles | 1997 |
| Barbara Meyer | University of California, Berkeley | 2000 |
| Elliot Meyerowitz | California Institute of Technology | 1995 |
| Lois K. Miller (d. 1999) | University of Georgia | 1997 |
| Beatrice Mintz | Fox Chase Cancer Center | 1973 |
| Danesh Moazed | Harvard Medical School | 2023 |
| Hermann Joseph Muller (d. 1967) | University of Texas at Austin | 1931 |
| Andrew W. Murray | Harvard University | 2014 |
| Terry Orr-Weaver | MIT | 2006 |
| Howard Nash (d. 2011) | National Institutes of Health | 1990 |
| James V. Neel (d. 2000) | University of Michigan Medicine | 1963 |
| Elaine Ostrander | National Human Genome Research Institute | 2019 |
| Ray David Owen | California Institute of Technology | 1966 |
| David C. Page | MIT | 2005 |
| Mary-Lou Pardue (d. 2024) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1983 |
| David Perkins (d. 2007) | Stanford University | 1981 |
| Thomas Petes | Duke University | 1999 |
| John Preer Jr. (d. 2016) | Indiana University | 1976 |
| James Priess | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center | 2017 |
| John Pringle (biologist) | Stanford University School of Medicine | 2017 |
| Mark Ptashne | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | 1979 |
| Theodore Puck (d. 2005) | University of Colorado Boulder | 1960 |
| Marcus Morton Rhoades (d. 1991) | Indiana University | 1946 |
| Jasper Rine | UC Berkeley | 2008 |
| Jeffrey Roberts | Cornell University | 1999 |
| Shirleen Roeder | Yale University | 2009 |
| Herschel L. Roman (d. 1989) | University of Washington | 1970 |
| John Roth | University of California, Davis | 1988 |
| Lucia B. Rothman-Denes | University of Chicago | 2014 |
| Rodney Rothstein | Columbia University | 2015 |
| Gerald Rubin | Howard Hughes Medical Institute | 1987 |
| Elizabeth S. Russell (d. 2001) | Jackson Laboratory | 1972 |
| Liane Russell (d. 2019) | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | 1986 |
| William L. Russell (d. 2003) | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | 1973 |
| Gary Ruvkun | Harvard University | 2008 |
| Ruth Sager (d. 1997) | Dana–Farber Cancer Institute | 1977 |
| Margarita Salas | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC), Spain | 2007 |
| Matthew Scott | Stanford University | 1999 |
| Julie Segre | National Human Genome Research Institute | 2022 |
| Eric Selker | University of Oregon | 2012 |
| Richard Setlow | Brookhaven National Laboratory | 1973 |
| Geraldine Seydoux | Johns Hopkins University | 2016 |
| Jay Shendure | University of Washington | 2022 |
| Fred Sherman (d. 2013) | University of Rochester | 1985 |
| Obaid Siddiqi | Tata Institute of Fundamental Research | 2003 |
| Melvin Simon | California Institute of Technology | 1985 |
| Oliver Smithies (d. 2017) | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 1971 |
| Allan C. Spradling | Carnegie Institution of Washington | 1989 |
| Franklin Stahl | University of Oregon | 1976 |
| Peter Starlinger | University of Cologne | 1987 |
| George Streisinger (d. 1984) | University of Oregon | 1975 |
| Paul W. Sternberg | California Institute of Technology | 2009 |
| Gisela Storz | NIH | 2012 |
| F. William Studier | Brookhaven National Laboratory | 1992 |
| Alfred Sturtevant (d. 1970) | California Institute of Technology | 1930 |
| Lorraine S. Symington | Columbia University Irving Medical Center | 2020 |
| Jiazhen Tan | Fudan University | 1985 |
| J. Herbert Taylor (d. 1998) | Florida State University | 1977 |
| Howard Martin Temin (d. 1994) | University of Wisconsin–Madison | 1974 |
| Jun-ichi Tomizawa | National Institute of Genetics | 1995 |
| Bik Kwoon Tye | Cornell University | 2023 |
| Anne Villeneuve (scientist) | Stanford University School of Medicine | 2017 |
| Graham C. Walker | MIT | 2013 |
| James D. Watson | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | 1962 |
| Reed Wickner | NIH | 2000 |
| Fred Winston | Harvard University | 2013 |
| Evelyn Witkin (d. 2023) | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick | 1977 |
| Élie Wollman | Institut Pasteur | 1991 |
| Mariana Wolfner | Cornell University | 2019 |
| William Wood (d. 2024) | University of Colorado at Boulder | 1972 |
| Charles Yanofsky (d. 2018) | Stanford University | 1966 |
| Virginia Zakian | Princeton University | 2018 |
| Phillip D. Zamore | UMass Chan Medical School | 2023 |
| Norton Zinder | Rockefeller University | 1969 |