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Six members of the Harvard Medical School faculty are among 276 individuals elected to the 2020 class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
“The members of the class of 2020 have excelled in laboratories and lecture halls, they have amazed on concert stages and in surgical suites, and they have led in board rooms and courtrooms,” said the academy’s president David W. Oxtoby. “With today’s election announcement, these new members are united by a place in history and by an opportunity to shape the future through the Academy’s work to advance the public good.”
The six honorees from HMS include:
Katrina Armstrong, head of the Department of Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital
Daniel Finley, professor of cell biology in the Blavatnik Institute
Ann Hochschild, the Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Microbiology and head of the Department of Microbiology in the Blavatnik Institute
William Kaelin, the Sidney Farber Professor of Medicine at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Suzanne Walker, professor of microbiology in the Blavatnik Institute
Clifford Woolf, professor of neurology at Boston Children’s Hospital
The new members from HMS join innovative thinkers in every field and profession, including more than 250 Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners.
AAAS is an honorary society and an independent policy research center that honors excellence and engages leaders from various disciplines to provide solutions to complex challenges facing the world. The academy is committed to advancing the common good, upholding democratic ideals, elevate the use of evidence and knowledge, foster deliberative discourse, preserve independence, embrace diversity and inclusion and celebrate excellence.
