National Academy of Sciences Elects 10 NIGMS Grantees

by Danielle Wittenberg
May 25, 1999

Ten NIGMS grantees were among the 60 new members recently elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their "distinguished and continuing achievements in original research." They are:

Dr. Marlene Belfort, an NIGMS grantee for 15 years who is a professor of molecular genetics and director of the division of genetic disorders at the Wadsworth Center of the New York State Department of Health in Albany;

Dr. Joanne Chory, an NIGMS grantee for 4 years who is an associate investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and a professor of plant biology at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, CA;

Dr. William DeGrado, an NIGMS grantee for 3 years who is a professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia;

Dr. Joseph Felsenstein, an NIGMS grantee for 10 years who is a professor of genetics at the University of Washington in Seattle;

Dr. Ralph Hirschmann, an NIGMS grantee for 9 years who is the Makineni Chair of Bioorganic Chemistry in the department of chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia;

Dr. Arthur Landy, an NIGMS grantee for 19 years who is a professor of molecular and cell biology and biochemistry at Brown University in Providence, RI;

Dr. J. Richard McIntosh, an NIGMS grantee for 16 years who is a professor of molecular, cellular, and developmental biology and an American Cancer Society Research Professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder;

Dr. Thomas Petes, an NIGMS grantee for 24 years who is a biology professor in the genetics and molecular biology program at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill;

Dr. Jeffrey Roberts, an NIGMS grantee for 24 years who is a professor of biochemistry and the Robert J. Appel Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY; and

Dr. Martin Weigert, an NIGMS grantee for 28 years who is a professor of molecular biology at Princeton University in New Jersey.

The National Academy of Sciences, a private organization of scientists and engineers dedicated to furthering science and its use for the general welfare, was established in 1863. Upon request, it serves as an official advisor to the Federal government on science and technology matters.

Based in part on an NAS news release.