Four Harvard Medical School scientists are among this year’s newest members elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Class of 2015.
“We are honored to elect a new class of extraordinary women and men to join our distinguished membership,” Don Randel, chair of the academy’s board of directors, said in a statement. “Each new member is a leader in his or her field and has made a distinct contribution to the nation and the world. We look forward to engaging them in the intellectual life of this vibrant institution.”
One of the nation’s most prestigious honorary societies and a leading center for independent policy research, academy members include some of the world’s most accomplished leaders from academia, business, public affairs, the humanities and the arts.
HMS faculty in the new class, who will be inducted at a ceremony in October in Cambridge, Mass., include:
Senior Lecturer on Social Medicine in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine and former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine
Edward R. and Anne G. Lefler Professor of Neurobiology in the Department of Neurobiology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
Takeda Professor of Neurobiology in the Department of Neurobiology
Elkan Blout Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology in the Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
