Douglas Melton of Harvard’s Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology (SCRB), jointly administered by the Medical School and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, along with Rebecca M. Henderson of the Harvard Business School, were named University Professors in recognition of their dedication to teaching and groundbreaking scholarship that crosses academic boundaries.

“The University Professorships were established almost 80 years ago as a special way to recognize individuals of distinction who are working on the frontiers of knowledge in ways that cross the traditional boundaries of academic disciplines,” said President Drew Faust. “In the lab and in the field, as well as in the classroom, Professors Henderson and Melton have provided superior examples of the work of the Harvard faculty.”

Melton, the Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences and a co-chair of both SCRB and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, has been a driving force behind the University’s ascendancy in stem cell research.

“While the world knows Doug Melton as a scientist who has played a seminal role in the exponential growth of the new field of stem cell science, we at Harvard also know him as an untiring mentor to scientific leaders of tomorrow, and as an academic who is passionate about improving undergraduate education,” Faust said.

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