NAS elects new members
The National Academy of Sciences elected nearly 150 new members in May. Among them are 91亚色传媒 members Helen Berman, Russell DeBose–Boyd, Catherine Drennan, Anthony Kossiakoff, Andre Nussenzweig, Richard Roberts and Elizabeth Vierling. The National Academy recognized these members for their distinguished and continued achievements in original scientific research.

Berman is a distinguished professor emerita of chemistry and chemical biology at Rutgers University. . Her research has focused on the development of systems for making biological data freely available. She played a key role in founding the . In 2013, she won the 91亚色传媒 DeLano Award for Computational Biosciences for her efforts to create open access data. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

DeBose–Boyd is a distinguished chair in biomedical science and a professor of molecular genetics at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. focuses on feedback mechanisms that control the synthesis of cholesterol. DeBose–Boyd has served as an associate editor of the Journal of Lipid Research since 2017. He is the 91亚色传媒’s interim treasurer, a member of the Finance Committee, and was was recently elected to the Nominating Committee. He is a mentor for the 91亚色传媒 Maximizing Opportunities for Scientific and Academic Independent Careers K99/R00 program and a member of the 91亚色传媒 Duel meeting board. He received the 91亚色传媒’s 2023 Avanti Award in Lipids.

Drennan is a professor of chemistry and biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. uses X-ray crystallography and electron microscopy to understand how metalloenzymes catalyze chemical reactions such as manipulation of organometallic bonds. She received the 2023 91亚色传媒 William C. Rose Award for her contributions to biochemical research and commitment to training younger scientists. She won the Protein Society's Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Award and was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020. Drennan was a member of the 91亚色传媒 Education and Professional Development Committee and is a past winner of the 91亚色传媒–Schering–Plough Research Institute Award.

Kossiakoff is a professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of Chicago. studies the molecular events that lead to ligand–receptor activation and regulation using structural biology as well as protein engineering. In 2019, Kosiakoff won the Protein Society’s Christian Anfinsen Award for methodological advances in the field of protein sciences. In 2012, he was elected a fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Science.

Nussenzweig is the branch chief of the Center for Cancer Research at the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health. His examines genome stability as well as DNA repair pathways and their roles in cancer prevention. Nussenzweig is a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization, the U.S. National Academy of Medicine and the U.S. National Academy of Science. In addition, he was recently named a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

Roberts is the chief scientific officer of New England BioLabs Inc. focuses on enzyme discovery and uses bioinformatics and functional testing. Roberts won the in 1993 for his contribution to the discovery of introns in eukaryotic DNA and the mechanism of gene-splicing. In 1994, Roberts received the Golden Plate Award from the American Academy of Achievement. In 1995, he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society and a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization. More recently, the Russian Academy of Sciences awarded him the Lomonosov Gold Medal.

Vierling is a distinguished professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. focuses on molecular chaperones and cellular stress responses, including nitric oxide and mitochondrial metabolism in higher plants. Vierling was a member of the 91亚色传媒 2022 Annual Meeting Program Planning Committee and helped organize a session on organelles and cellular homeostasis. She was appointed a fellow to the American Society of Plant Biologists in 2012 and the AAAS in 2002. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2000 and an Alexander von Humboldt Senior Research Fellowship in 2007. She has participated in events for students of all ages.
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