PHILADELPHIA — Three researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have been elected as new members to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation's most prestigious honorary societies and a leading center for independent policy research.
The new honorees, who join 20 other Penn Medicine experts previously elected, are:
- Garret A. FitzGerald, MD, the Robert L. McNeil, Jr. Professor of Translational Medicine and Therapeutics, chair of the Department of Pharmacology, and director of the Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics,
- Carl H. June, MD, the Richard W. Vague Professor in Immunotherapy in the department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and director of Translational Research in the Abramson Cancer Center,
- M. Celeste Simon, PhD, a professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, scientific director and investigator for the Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute, and an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
The Academy’s current membership includes some of the world's most accomplished leaders from mathematics, the physical and biological sciences, medicine, the social sciences, business, public affairs, the humanities, government, and the arts. Among the Academy's Fellows are more than 250 Nobel laureates and 60 Pulitzer Prize winners.
Nancy Bonini, PhD, professor of Biology in Penn’s School of Arts and Sciences and an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, is also among the Penn faculty elected to the Academy. The entire list of the new members is located is here.
The new class will be inducted at a ceremony on October 11, 2014, at the Academy’s headquarters in Cambridge, Mass.
Penn Medicine is one of the world’s leading academic medical centers, dedicated to the related missions of medical education, biomedical research, excellence in patient care, and community service. The organization consists of the University of Pennsylvania Health System and Penn’s Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine, founded in 1765 as the nation’s first medical school.
The Perelman School of Medicine is consistently among the nation's top recipients of funding from the National Institutes of Health, with $550 million awarded in the 2022 fiscal year. Home to a proud history of “firsts” in medicine, Penn Medicine teams have pioneered discoveries and innovations that have shaped modern medicine, including recent breakthroughs such as CAR T cell therapy for cancer and the mRNA technology used in COVID-19 vaccines.
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