Welcome Bender, Timothy Hla and David Scadden of Harvard Medical School are among 391 members elected as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Election as a AAAS Fellow is an honor presented to AAAS members by their peers. This year 391 members have been so honored because of their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications.
New Fellows will be presented with an official certificate and a gold and blue rosette pin, representing science and engineering, respectively, on Feb. 18 at the AAAS Fellows Forum during the 2017 AAAS annual meeting in Boston.
Welcome Bender, the HMS Harold T. White Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, was elected to the section on biological sciences for distinguished contributions to the field of genetics, particularly in elucidating the regulation of the Drosophila bithorax complex, the foremost model for eukaryotic epigenetic regulation.
Timothy Hla, the HMS Patricia K. Donahoe Professor of Surgery at Boston Children’s Hospital, was elected to the section on biological sciences for foundational discoveries in vascular biology, especially those related to signaling pathways required for endothelial cell migration and vascular inflammatory responses.
David Scadden, HMS professor of stem cell and regenerative biology, was elected to the section on medical sciences for distinguished contributions to the field of hematology and stem cell biology, particularly the molecular regulation of hematopoiesis and the biology of the stem cell niche.
