Four members of the Harvard Medical School community are among this year’s class of national and international leaders elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Founded in 1780, AAAS is one of the country’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies and independent policy research centers, convenes leaders from the academic, business and government sectors to respond to the challenges facing the nation and the world.
“It is an honor to welcome this new class of exceptional women and men as part of our distinguished membership,” said Don Randel, chair of the Academy’s board of directors. “Their election affords us an invaluable opportunity to bring their expertise and knowledge to bear on some of the most significant challenges of our day. We look forward to engaging these new members in the work of the Academy.”
The new HMS Fellows include:
Donald IngberThe HMS Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Boston Children’s Hospital and director of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University
Bruce RosenThe HMS Laurence Lamson Robbins Professor of Radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital and professor of health sciences and technology in the Harvard-MIT HST program
Yang ShiHMS professor of cell biology and professor of pediatrics at Boston Children’s
Ralph WeisslederThe HMS Thrall Family Professor of Radiology and professor of radiology at Mass General
The academy’s 236th class will be inducted in October at a ceremony in Cambridge.
