Six researchers from Harvard Medical School have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Class of 2024 for exceptional scholarship and leadership in biomedical science.
Established in 1780, the academy honors excellence and convenes leaders from every field of human endeavor to examine and address the most vexing challenges facing the nation and the world. This year, the AAAS extended membership to 250 artists, scholars, scientists, and leaders.
“We invite these exceptional individuals to join in the academy’s work to address serious challenges and advance the common good,” said academy president David Oxtoby.
The newly elected members from HMS are:
- Paola Arlotta, HMS professor of stem cell and regenerative biology; Golub Family Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University.
- Stephen Blacklow, the Gustavus Adolphus Pfeiffer Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology and chair of the Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology in the Blavatnik Institute at HMS.
- Chinfei Chen, HMS professor of neurology at Boston Children's.
- Sun Hur, the Oscar M. Schloss, MD Professor of Pediatrics and HMS professor of biological chemistry and molecular pharmacology at Boston Children's Hospital.
- Kornelia Polyak, HMS professor of medicine at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
- Arlene Sharpe, the Kolokotrones University Professor at Harvard and head of the Department of Immunology at HMS.
The newly elected members will be inducted at a ceremony in Cambridge, Mass., in September. They join a roster of esteemed academy members who came before them, including Benjamin Franklin (elected 1781), Alexander Hamilton (1791), Ralph Waldo Emerson (1864), Maria Mitchell (1848), Charles Darwin (1874), Albert Einstein (1924), Margaret Mead (1948), Martin Luther King, Jr. (1966), Madeleine Albright (2001), and Jennifer Doudna (2003).
Adapted from American Academy of Arts and Sciences communications materials.
