The new fellows, who were selected because of their efforts toward advancing science applications that are deemed scientifically or socially distinguished, will be honored at the AAAS Annual Meeting later this month. A list of new members from the Schools appears below.
Frederick Alt, the Charles A. Janeway Professor of Pediatrics and professor of genetics at Children’s Hospital Boston, for distinguished contributions to the field of genome stability, particularly for elucidating the mechanisms of immunoglobin gene rearrangement and nonhomologous end joining in mammalian cells.
Barry Bloom, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor, Joan L. and Julius H. Jacobson Professor of Public Health, and former dean of HSPH, for his many contributions to and leadership in the areas of infectious diseases, vaccines, and global health.
Lewis Cantley, the William Bosworth Castle Professor of Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and HMS professor of systems biology, for distinguished contributions to the field of signal transduction and control of cell growth.
Nicholas Christakis, HMS professor of medical sociology in the Department of Health Care Policy and professor of medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, for foundational research on the relationship between social networks and health and applying network science and mathematical models to understand health dynamics in longitudinally evolving networks.
R. John Collier, the Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, for distinguished contributions to our understanding of how bacteria cause disease, particularly for elucidating the structures and actions of bacterial toxins.
Vadim Gladyshev, HMS lecturer on medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, for distinguished contributions to the fields of redox regulation, signaling and the biochemistry, bioinformatics and biology of the trace element selenium.
Michael Greenberg, the Nathan Marsh Pusey Professor of Neurobiology and head of the Department of Neurobiology, for the study of activity dependent processes whose dysfunction can lead to the development of diseases of cognitive function.
Roberto Kolter, HMS professor of microbiology and molecular genetics, for distinguished contributions to understanding the genetics of and signaling in bacterial stationary phase and biofilm production.
Bjorn Olsen, Hersey Professor of Cell Biology at HMS and professor and chair of developmental biology at HSDM, for distinguished research contributions to cell, matrix and developmental biology and to dental academics through innovative leadership at HSDM.
Stuart Orkin, the David G. Nathan Professor of Pediatrics at Children’s Hospital Boston, for distinguished contributions to the understanding of the development and function of the blood system, particularly the mechanistic basis of lineage selection and hemoglobin switching.
Charles Serhan, the Simon Gelman Professor of Anesthesia at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, for distinguished contributions to medical sciences (pathology), with the identification of novel mechanisms in resolution of inflammation via structural elucidation of endogenous anti-inflammatory-pro-resolving chemical mediators.
Yang Shi, HMS professor of pathology, for seminal contributions to the field of epigenetics by identifying the first histone demethylase, thus disproving the long held view that histone methylation is irreversible.
Cornellis Terhorst, HMS professor of medicine (pediatrics) at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, for distinguished contributions to the characterization of the CD3/T cell receptor complex, SLAM molecules and highly innovative studies on X-linked lymphoproliferative and inflammatory bowel diseases.
