From left: Alan Garber, David Hooper, Pier Paolo Pandolfi and Bernardo Sabatini
Four Harvard Medical School scientists were among 396 individuals to be elected 2017 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), in recognition of their work to advance science or its applications.
Alan Garber, Harvard University provost and the Mallinckrodt Professor of Health Care Policy at HMS, was elected for his distinguished contributions to the field of medical decision-making and advancing our understanding of methods for improving health care delivery and financing.
David Hooper, HMS professor of medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, was elected for elucidating mechanisms and epidemiology of antibiotic resistance in bacteria, with a major focus on the molecular determinants of quinolone action and resistance.
Pier Paolo Pandolfi, the HMS George C. Reisman Professor of Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, was elected for seminal contributions to the elucidation of the molecular genetics and biology of human cancer, which also led to the cure of Acute Promyelocityc Leukemia (APL).
Bernardo Sabatini, the Alice and Rodman W. Moorhead III Professor of neurobiology at HMS, was elected for his contributions to elucidating mechanisms of synapse formation, function, and regulation, and their link to modulation of brain circuitry in development, behavior and disease.
