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Five Harvard Medical School researchers are among the 150 newly elected members of the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
Election to the Academy is considered one of the highest honors a scientist can receive.
The newly elected members from HMS are:
- David Altshuler, HMS senior lecturer on genetics, part-time, at Massachusetts General Hospital
- Paola Arlotta, the Golub Family Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology at HMS and Harvard University
- M. Amin Arnaout, HMS professor of medicine at Mass General
- George Q. Daley, dean of HMS and the Caroline Shields Walker Professor of Medicine
- Jeffrey Holt, HMS professor of otolaryngology head and neck surgery at Boston Children’s Hospital
The National Academy of Sciences is a private, nonprofit institution that was established under a congressional charter signed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863. It recognizes achievement in science by election to membership and, with the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Medicine, provides science, engineering, and health policy advice to the federal government and other organizations.
Adapted from National Academy of Sciences communications materials.
