NAS Honors Three Faculty Members for Original Research
The National Academy of Sciences has elected 72 new members to its ranks, including three from the HMS community.
Porter Anderson
Lecturer on Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital Boston
William Kaelin
Howard Hughes Investigator and Professor of Medicine at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Kevin Struhl
The David Wesley Gaiser Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School
Nine Faculty Members Named to Institute of Medicine
Nine faculty members from HMS are among the 65 new appointees to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Sciences.
David Altshuler
Professor of Genetics and of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Kenneth Anderson
Kraft Family Professor of Medicine, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
John Ayanian
Professor of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School
Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Professor of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health
Nancy Berliner
Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Michael Chernew
Professor of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School
Charles Czeisler
Frank Baldino Jr., PhD, Professor of Sleep Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Gary Gottlieb
Professor of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
President and Chief Executive Officer, Partners HealthCare System
Bruce Rosen
Professor of Radiology and of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts General Hospital
George Thibault
Daniel D. Federman, MD, Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Medical Education, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
President, Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation
Academy of Arts and Sciences Taps Five from HMS
Five HMS faculty members are among the new class of fellows elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Harvey Cantor
The Baruj Benacerraf Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Ronald DePinho
Professor of Medicine (Genetics), Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Carol Nadelson
Professor of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Bruce Walker
Howard Hughes Investigator and Professor of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Fred Winston, the John Emory Andrus Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School
Harvard Geneticist Receives Bower Award from Franklin Institute
HMS Professor of Genetics George Church has received the Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science, one of seven international awards given this year by the Franklin Institute. Church was honored for his contributions to human genomics and synthetic biology.
2010 AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize
HMS Associate Professor of Genetics David Reich has received the Newcomb Cleveland Prize for his Science paper “A Draft Sequence of the Neandertal Genome,” which he coauthored with colleagues at the Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
Warren Alpert Foundation Prize
Howard Green, the George Higginson Professor of Cell Biology at HMS, was awarded the 2010 Alpert Prize for his work in regenerative medicine.
Gairdner International Award
The Gairdner Foundation has named William Kaelin, Howard Hughes investigator and HMS professor of medicine at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, a recipient of the 2010 Canada Gairdner International Award, one of the world’s most prestigious medical research prizes.
Biochemist Garners Welch Award in Chemistry
Christopher T. Walsh, the Hamilton Kuhn professor of biological chemistry and molecular pharmacology at HMS, has received the Welch Foundation’s Welch Award in Chemistry for enzyme studies.
Breast Cancer Innovator Award
Rakesh Jain, the A. Werk Cook Professor of Radiation Oncology (Tumor Biology) at Massachusetts General Hospital, has received an $8.8 million Breast Cancer Innovator Award from the Department of Defense (DoD) to develop complementary vascular strategies for breast cancer treatment.
Herbert W. Nickens Award
Alvin Poussaint, HMS professor of psychiatry and associate faculty dean for student affairs, received the Herbert W. Nickens Award from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) at a ceremony in November for promoting justice in medical education.
Five Faculty Members Receive NIH Common Fund Support
Five members of the HMS research community have received new funding from the National Institutes of Health Common Fund to pursue novel, high-risk research.
Two scientists received the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award, which confers up to $2.5 million over five years:
Jae Keith Joung
Associate Professor of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Bruce Yankner
Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School
Three HMS faculty members were honored with grants to encourage innovation, the Director’s New Innovator Awards, which support early-career scientists:
Nathalie Agar
Instructor in Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Sandeep Robert Datta
Assistant Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School
Conor Evans
Instructor in Dermatology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Faculty Win Transformative Research Awards
Two research groups led by HMS investigators are among 20 nationwide to receive funding through the NIH Director’s Transformative Research Projects program from the National Institutes of Health Common Fund (formerly called the Roadmap for Medical Research). Members of the first group are:
Paola Arlotta
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital
Jae Keith Joung
Associate Professor of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Feng Zhang
Research Fellow in Genetics, Harvard Medical School
The other group is led by Bryce Nickels of Rutgers University and
Simon Dove
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Microbiology and Molecular Genetics), Children’s Hospital Boston and the Immune Disease Institute
Medical Student Named Rhodes Scholar
HMS first-year Aakash Shah is one of four Harvard students recently named 2011 Rhodes Scholars.
