UMass Medical School's Craig Mello elected to American Academy of Arts an...(ar by Science magazine and remarkably wa...)

Date:4/30/2008

ar by Science magazine and, remarkably, was also on Sciences list of the top 10 scientific advances in 2003. The pair received the 2005 Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in Medical Research from Brandeis University and the 2005 Gairdner International Award, which is nationally sponsored by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Government of Canadas agency for health research.

This years new AAAS Fellows include, among others, U.S. Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice John Paul Stevens; 2004 Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine, Linda Buck, who discovered a molecular understanding of the sense of smell; computer company founders Michael Dell (Dell Computer), and Charles M. Geschke and John E. Warnock (Adobe Systems, Inc.); two-time cabinet secretary and former White House Chief of Staff James A. Baker III; astronomer Adam Riess, who contributed to the discovery of dark energy in the universe; Academy Award-winning filmmakers Ethan and Joel Cohen; Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Edwards P. Jones; and blues guitarist B.B. King, with whom Mello shared the stage as the 2007 Brown University Commencement speakers. Honorary Foreign Members include Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk, who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2006.

The Academy honors excellence by electing to membership remarkable men and women who have made preeminent contributions to their fields, and to the world, said Academy President Emilio Bizzi. We are pleased to welcome into the Academy these new members to help advance our founders goal of cherishing knowledge and shaping the future.

An independent policy research center, the Academy undertakes studies of complex and emerging problems. Its diverse membership of scholars and practitioners from many disciplines and professions gives the Academy a unique capacity to conduct a wide range of interdisciplinary, long-term policy research. Current studies focus on science, technology and global secu
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Contact: Alison Duffy alison.duffy@umassmed.edu 508-856-2000 University of Massachusetts Medical School Source:Eurekalert

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