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Todd H. Wasserman earned undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of Rochester. He later trained in radiation oncology at the National Cancer Institute and the University of California, San Francisco. He joined the faculty of Washington University School of Medicine in 1979. Two years later, he helped found the Department of Radiation Oncology at the Jewish Hospital of St. Louis, which he chaired from 1983 to 1995, before the merger with Barnes Hospital. In 2011, he became an emeritus professor. Over a medical career that spanned more than three decades, Wasserman made important contributions to the field of radiation oncology. His research focused on the interactions between chemotherapy and radiation treatment and drugs that make cancer cells more vulnerable to radiation therapy. He published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles, editorials and book chapters on these topics. His clinical focus included lymphoma and myeloma, both cancers of white blood cells.

Source: https://source.wustl.edu/2013/01/obituary-todd-h-wasserman-md-professor-emeritus-66/

Benjamin Waterhouse was a physician, co-founder, and professor of Harvard Medical School who was also the first doctor to test the smallpox vaccine in the United States. He performed the vaccinations on his children and servants in 1800.

Robert H. Waterston earned both his MD and PhD degrees from the University of Chicago School of Medicine. In 1976 he became an assistant professor of anatomy and neurobiology at Washington University School of Medicine. A few years later he transferred to the Department of Genetics and became chair of the department in 1991. Waterston helped make complete sequencing of animal genomes a reality by leading a project to study the genome of the worm Caenorhabditis elegans.

Later, his work on large-scale DNA sequencing contributed to the success of the Human Genome Project. His laboratory constructed the map that became the human genome-sequencing framework, and then added to this 20 percent of the entire human genome sequence. In 2003, Waterston accepted the position of William Gates III Endowed Chair in Biomedical Science, Professor and Chair of the Department of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle.

James D. Watson is a molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist who co-authored the academic paper proposing the double helix structure of DNA with Francis Crick in 1953. In 1962, James Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 'for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material.'

As of 2019, Mark Watson is an Assistant Professor, Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine.

Michael S. Watson, PhD, FACMG, received his MS in Medical Genetics and his PhD in Physiology & Biophysics from the University of Alabama at Birmingham while focusing on human medical genetics; his postdoctoral training was in the Medical Genetics Training Program at Yale University School of Medicine where he was the Associate Director of Clinical Cytogenetics. He was director of Clinical and Molecular Cytogenetics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Professor of Pediatrics and Genetics from 1986'2001, Director of the Medical Genetics Training Program (1996-1999) and is certified by the American Board of Medical Genetics (ABMG) in Clinical Cytogenetics and as a PhD Medical Geneticist. As of 2001, he became an Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics at Washington University School of Medicine and Executive Director of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics the ACMG Foundation for Genetic and Genomic Medicine. Source: http://www.humanvariomeproject.org/isac-members/michael-watson.html