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National Academy of Medicine

The National Academy of Medicine is a policy research organization that is recognized as a national resource of judgment and veracity in the analysis of issues relating to human health. The Academy's members are elected on the basis of their professional achievement and commitment to service.

Current Faculty and Emeriti

Sohail Tavazoie
2022 National Academy of Medicine
Tavazoie has substantially expanded our understanding of the mechanisms enabling some tumors to spread from one body site to another.
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Mary E. Hatten
2021 National Academy of Medicine
Hatten sheds light on the mechanisms of neuronal differentiation and migration in the cerebellar cortex.
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Leslie B. Vosshall
2021 National Academy of Medicine
Vosshall studies how the Aedes aegypti mosquito—the species responsible for spreading dengue, Zika, chikungunya, and yellow fever—perceives and processes sensory information.
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Charles M. Rice
2021 National Academy of Medicine
Rice conducts research that helped lead to treatments that cure about 95 percent of people afflicted with the hepatitis C virus.
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Cori Bargmann
2017 National Academy of Medicine
Bargmann studies the relationship between genes, neural circuits, and behavior in C. elegans.
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Jean-Laurent Casanova
2015 National Academy of Medicine
Casanova tests the hypothesis that severe disease during primary infection can result from monogenic inborn errors of immunity.
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Robert B. Darnell
2010 National Academy of Medicine
Darnell studies RNA genomics in neurological disease and cancer.
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Titia de Lange
2010 National Academy of Medicine
The de Lange lab studies how telomeres protect chromosome ends from the DNA damage response and the role of telomeres in cancer.
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Michel C. Nussenzweig
2009 National Academy of Medicine
Nussenzweig studies the molecular aspects of adaptive and innate immune responses with a focus on HIV-1.
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Jeffrey V. Ravetch
2007 National Academy of Medicine
Ravetch studies the interactions between antibodies and immune cells’ Fc receptors to better understand and treat disease.
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Jeffrey M. Friedman
2005 National Academy of Medicine
Friedman studies the molecular mechanisms that regulate food intake and body weight.
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Richard P. Lifton
2002 National Academy of Medicine
Lifton uses large-scale genetics and genomics to identify mutations underlying human disease and their biochemical mechanisms.
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Barry S. Coller
1999 National Academy of Medicine
Coller investigates the role of blood platelets and the mechanisms of blood cell adhesion in vascular disease.
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Jan L. Breslow
1997 National Academy of Medicine
Breslow investigates the genetic and environmental bases of atherosclerotic disease.
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Torsten N. Wiesel
1996 National Academy of Medicine
Wiesel focused on the organization and development of the central nervous system, using the visual system as a model for mechanisms that apply to the brain as a whole.
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Elaine Fuchs
1994 National Academy of Medicine
Fuchs studies the mechanisms underlying how stem cells make and repair tissues and deviate in stress, aging, and cancer.
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About the National Academy of Medicine

The prestigious National Academy of Medicine elects no more than 90 regular members and 10 international members annually. For those at the top of their field, NAM membership reflects the height of professional achievement and commitment to service.

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Past Faculty

2019
C. David Allis
2011
Marc Tessier-Lavigne
2002
Ralph M. Steinman
2000
Gunter Blobel
1999
Paul Greengard
1998
Bruce S. McEwen
1995
Arnold J. Levine
1993
Jules Hirsch
1988
Emil C. Gotschlich
1988
David Baltimore
1984
Purnell Choppin
1974
James G. Hirsch
1971
Joshua Lederberg
1971
Vincent P. Dole
1970
Henry G. Kunkel
1970
Maclyn McCarty