AAAS Honors Three from NIH
Three NIH scientists are among 146 fellows elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on Apr. 17; they will be formally inducted in ceremonies Oct. 3 in Cambridge, Mass.
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Dr. Francis Collins
They are: NHGRI director Dr. Francis Collins; Dr. Reed B. Wickner, chief, Laboratory of Biochemistry and Genetics, NIDDK; and Dr. Carl Wu, chief, Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology, NCI. |
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Dr. Reed B. Wickner
The academy, founded in 1780 by John Adams and other leaders of the young republic, was created as a learned society to "cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honor, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent and virtuous people." It addresses important national issues through interdisciplinary and collaborative projects and publications, including its quarterly journal Daedalus. |
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Dr. Carl Wu
This year's inductees join a membership of some 4,000 fellows nationwide, including 160 Nobel laureates and 65 Pulitzer Prize winners. |
NINDS's McFarland Awarded Dystel Prize
Dr. Henry McFarland, chief of NINDS's Neuroimmunology
Branch, recently received the John Jay Dystel Prize for Multiple
Sclerosis Research at the annual American Academy of Neurology
meeting in Minneapolis. Sponsored by AAN and the National
Multiple Sclerosis Society, the prize was established by Marion
and Oscar Dystel of Purchase, N.Y., whose son developed MS.
McFarland, who received a $7,500 prize and presented a lecture
titled "Evolving Concepts of the Natural History of the Lesion in
MS," was honored for his outstanding clinical and investigative
contributions. Many of his publications serve as guidelines for
others conducting research on MS.
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