• Nawal Nour, M.D., M.P.H., Instructor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, HMS—Named 2003 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation MacArthur Fellow for her work as the physician creating the first practice in the United States to address the medical and emotional needs of female immigrants who have been ritually circumcised.

• Bruce Spiegelman, Professor of Cell Biology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, received the fourth annual Bristol-Myers Squibb award for distinguished achievement in metabolic research.

• John Collier, the Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Microbiology, won the 13th annual Bristol-Myers Squibb award for distinguished achievement in infectious disease research.

• Rakesh Jain, the A. Werk Cook Professor of Radiation Oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital and a member of the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine. He is also the first physician to be inducted into the National Academy of Engineering.

• Jeffery Flier, the George C. Reisman Professor of Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine.

• Paul Farmer, the Maude and Lillian Professor of Social Medicine, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine and was among the six recipients of the ninth annual Heinz Awards for his dedication to bringing quality health care to some of the world’s poorest regions.

• Diane Mathis, Professor of Medicine at Joslin Diabetes Center, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of her research on T cell differentiation and autoimmunity.

• Jim Kim, Associate Professor of Social Medicine at HMS and also of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, was named 2003 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation MacArthur Fellow for formulating new models for containing multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and mapping strategies for international health leadership in TB, AIDS, and other infectious diseases.