The National Academy of Sciences announced the election of 120 members and 26 international members in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
Newly-elected members bring the total number of active members to 2,403 and the total number of international members to 501. International members are nonvoting members of the academy, with citizenship outside the United States.
Newly-elected members whose work is related to cancer include:
Bahar, Ivet; John K. Vries Chair and distinguished professor of computational biology, department of computational and systems biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Barkan, Alice; director, department of biology and Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon
Bar-Sagi, Dafna; senior vice president, vice dean for science, chief scientific officer, and professor, department of biochemistry and molecular pharmacology and department of medicine, New York University School of Medicine
Bellen, Hugo; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; and professor, department of molecular and human genetics and department of neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine
Carreira, Erick M.; professor of chemistry, department of chemistry and applied biosciences, ETH Zürich, Zurich
Chang, Howard Y.; professor of dermatology, and director, Center for Personal Dynamic Regulomes Dermatology, Stanford University School of Medicine
Cheng, Yifan; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; and professor, department of biochemistry and biophysics, University of California, San Francisco
Chinnaiyan, Arul M.; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; and S.P. Hicks Endowed Professor of Pathology, American Cancer Society Research Professor, and director, Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School
Christiano, Angela; Rhodebeck Professor of Dermatology and Genetics and Development, departments of dermatology and genetics, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Conaway, Joan W.; investigator, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Mo.
Corces, Victor G.; HHMI Professor and Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Biology, department of biology, Emory University
Diffley, John F.; associate research director, Francis Crick Institute, London
Fagin, Ronald; IBM Fellow, IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, Calif.
Galli, Giulia; Liew Family Professor of Electronic Structure and Simulations, Institute for Molecular Engineering, The University of Chicago
Goldstein, Lawrence S.; director, Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine and UCSD Stem Cell Program, and professor, department of cellular and molecular medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego
Green, Douglas R.; member and chair, department of immunology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Habener, Joel F.; professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School; and chief, laboratory of molecular endocrinology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Howe, Gregg A.; university distinguished professor and MSU foundation professor, MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory, department of biochemistry and molecular biology, Michigan State University
Hurley, James H.; Judy C. Webb Chair and professor of biochemistry, biophysics, and structural biology, department of molecular and cell biology, University of California, Berkeley
Hwa, Terence T.; co-director, specialization in quantitative biology, and distinguished professor, department and division of biological sciences and department of physics, University of California, San Diego
Jarzynski, Christopher; distinguished university professor and director, Institute for Physical Science and Technology, department of chemistry and biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park
Jenkins, Marc K.; regents professor, department of microbiology and immunology, Center for Immunology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis
June, Carl; Richard W. Vague Professor in Immunotherapy, and director, Center for Cellular Immunotherapies, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Keeney, Scott; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; and full member, molecular biology program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Kirkpatrick, Mark; T.S. Painter Centennial Professorship in Genetics, department of integrative biology, University of Texas, Austin
Krainer, Adrian R.; St. Giles Foundation Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor
Kubiak, Clifford P.; distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry, department of chemistry and biochemistry, University of California, San Diego
Lewis, Richard S.; professor of molecular and cellular physiology, Stanford University
Lieberman, Judy; endowed chair of cellular and molecular medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital; and professor, department of pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Lima, Christopher D.; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; and member, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Lindblad-Toh, Kerstin; professor in comparative genomics, Uppsala University; and scientific director of vertebrate genome biology, The Broad Institute
Livingstone, Margaret S.; Takeda Professor of Neurobiology, department of neurobiology, Harvard Medical School
McMahon, Andrew P.; director, Eli and Edythe Broad CIRM Center, provost professor, Keck Professor, and chairman, department of regenerative medicine and stem cell biology, University of Southern California
Merad, Miriam; professor of immunology and oncological science, co-leader, cancer immunology program, and director, Immunology Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Miller, Scott J.; Irénée du Pont Professor of Chemistry, department of chemistry, Yale University
Morrison, Sean J.; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; and director, Children’s Research Institute, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Orth, Kim; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; and W.W. Caruth Jr. Scholar in Biomedical Research, Earl A. Forsythe Chair in Biomedical Science, and professor, department of molecular biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Pourquié, Olivier; Burr Professor of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and professor of genetics, Harvard Medical School
Przeworski, Molly; full professor, department of biological sciences and department of systems biology, Columbia University
Rosen, Michael K.; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; and professor, department of biochemistry, and chair, department of biophysics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Sarnow, Peter; professor of microbiology and immunology, department of microbiology and immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine
Schier, Alex F.; professor of cell biology and director of Biozentrum, The Center for Molecular Life Sciences, University of Basel
Schiller, John T.; deputy chief, laboratory of cellular oncology, NIH Distinguished Investigator, and head, neoplastic disease section, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health.
Schmid, Sandra L.; professor and chair, department of cell biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas
Schuman, Erin M.; director, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt
Smith, George P.; Curators’ Distinguished Professor Emeritus, division of biological sciences, University of Missouri
Smith, Janet L.; professor of biological chemistry, department of biological chemistry, and Margaret J. Hunter Collegiate Professor, Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan
Stoneking, Mark; group leader, department of evolutionary genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
Stupp, Samuel I.; Board of Trustees Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Chemistry, Medicine, and Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University
Symington, Lorraine S.; full professor, department of microbiology and immunology, Columbia University Medical Center
Tontonoz, Peter; professor and Frances and Albert Pianksy Chair, department of pathology and laboratory medicine, University of California, Los Angeles
Toste, F. Dean; Gerald E.K. Branch Professor of Chemistry, department of chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Tsao, Doris Y.; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; and professor of biology, California Institute of Technology
Tycko, Robert; senior investigator, laboratory of chemical physics, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health
Vaida, Veronica; professor of chemistry, department of chemistry and biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder
Walker, Suzanne; professor of microbiology and immunobiology, Harvard Medical School
Weber, Elke U.; Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor, departments of psychology and public affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Newly elected international members, their affiliations at the time of election, and their country of citizenship are:
Andrews, Brenda J.; professor and director, Terrence Donnelly Center for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto
Arber, Silvia; senior group leader, Friedrich Miescher Institute, and professor of neurobiology and cell biology, Institute for Biomedical Research, University of Basel
Barrett, Spencer C.H.; emeritus professor of botany, department of ecology and evolutionary biology, University of Toronto
Bernards, Rene; professor of molecular carcinogenesis, Utrecht University; and molecular oncologist, The Netherlands Cancer Institute
Cao, Xiaofeng; co-director, CAS-JIC Centre of Excellence for Plant and Microbial Science; and head, Center for Genome Biology, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Cramer, Patrick; director, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry
Domingo, Esteban; emeritus professor, Severo Ochoa Molecular Biology Center, Spanish National Research Council
Henzinger, Thomas; university president, Institute for Science and Technology Austria
Holt, Christine E.; professor emeritus, department of physiology, development, and neuroscience, University of Cambridge
Hyman, Anthony; director, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
Jorgensen, Bo Barker; professor, department of biology, Center for Geomicrobiology, Aarhus University
Kay, Lewis E.; professor of biochemistry, molecular genetics, and chemistry, University of Toronto
Morris, Richard G.M.; professor of neuroscience, Edinburgh Neuroscience, University of Edinburgh
Nobre, Anna C.; director, Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, department of experimental psychology, University of Oxford
Powrie, Fiona M.; director, Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford
Speakman, John R.; professor, University of Aberdeen; and professor, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
