Rudolf Jaenisch, whose stem cell lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has consistently broken new barriers in the field, is the world's “hottest” researcher, according to a survey by Thomson Reuters. The annual hot list from Thomson Reuters' Science Watch also names four genome experts at MIT and Harvard University's Broad Institute - Mark Daly, David Altshuler, and Paul I.W. de Bakker and Eric Lander. Biostatistician Goncalo Abecasis of the University of Michigan also makes the top 12 list, as do Manchester University materials professors Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, who discovered graphene and a new adhesive known as gecko tape. Shizuo Akira of Osaka University, named as the hottest researcher in 2005 and 2006, is on the list for work on toll-like receptors. Carlo Croce from Ohio State University makes the list for papers on cancer genetics, theoretical physicist Mikhail Katsnelson from Radboud University is on the list for work on condensed matter and computer scientist Ji-Huan He from Donghua University in Shanghai, China is there for work figuring out how to break down complex problems. Jaenisch, who works with embryonic stem cells and the new cells made out of skin cells called induced pluripotent stem cells or iPS cells, had 14 of the most cited papers.
