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by Jenna Ogilvie | Feb 8, 2017 | News
Last week, Carnegie Mellon University awarded NAM member Chad A. Mirkin this year’s Dickson Prize in Science for his outstanding contributions to the field. Dr. Mirkin is a chemist and a world-renowned nanoscience expert. He is best-known for his development of...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Feb 7, 2017 | News
NAM member Jennifer Doudna has been awarded the 2017 Japan Prize for her invention of the CRISPRI-Cas9 technology. She shares the award with her co-inventor Professor Emmanuelle Charpentier. Doudna and Charpentier have shared numerous awards for their work with...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Feb 1, 2017 | News
Browse all publications released in January 2017 below. To receive updates from the NAM, please subscribe to our mailing list. Reports document the evidence-based consensus of an authoring committee of experts. Proceedings chronicle the presentations and discussions...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jan 26, 2017 | News
NAM member Elaine Fuchs, Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor, Robin Chemers Neustein Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development, has been honored with the 2017 McEwen Award for Innovation. The prize, given by the International Society for Stem Cell Research,...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jan 24, 2017 | News
The national program office of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellows at the NAM is pleased to announce the placements of the 2016-2017 fellows! Daryll C. Dykes, MD, JD, PhD House Committee on Energy and Commerce (Majority) Elena B. Elkin, PhD, MPA...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jan 11, 2017 | News
The National Academy of Medicine’s 2015-2017 American Board of Emergency Medicine fellow is Dr. Hanni Stoklosa. Dr. Stoklosa is an emergency medicine physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an expert on human trafficking. She co-founded HEAL Trafficking in 2013,...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Dec 19, 2016 | News
The votes for the 2016 National Academy of Medicine (NAM) Council election have been tabulated, and the following individuals have been elected to serve three-year terms on the NAM Council effective July 1, 2017, through June 30, 2020. Alta Charo, J.D. Angela Diaz,...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Dec 16, 2016 | News
This week, the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) named 175 leaders of academic invention to NAI Fellow status. Thirteen National Academy of Medicine (NAM) members were among this list of distinguished innovators. Election to the NAI Fellows program is one of the...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Dec 15, 2016 | News
In response to alarming evidence of high rates of depression and suicide among U.S. health care workers, the National Academy of Medicine is launching a wide-ranging “action collaborative” of multiple organizations to promote clinician well-being and resilience. To...
by Laura DeStefano | Dec 15, 2016 | News
Margaret Hamburg, the foreign secretary of the National Academy of Medicine, has been chosen to serve as president-elect of AAAS. She will begin her three-year term as an officer and member of the Executive Committee of the AAAS Board of Directors at the conclusion of...
