The US Institutes of Medicine has elected 70 new members and 10 foreign associates, according to the organization.
Among the new members are Tufts University School of Medicine's Diana Bianchi, Judy Garber from Harvard Medical School, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases' Ronald Germain, Brendan Lee at the Baylor College of Medicine, Subra Suresh at Carnegie Mellon University, and Harvard's Christopher Walsh.
“Election to the IOM is a marker of an outstanding professional and scientific career,” National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins said in a statement lauding the newly elected researchers from the agency.
The new foreign associates include Daiming Fan from the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the Fourth Military Medical University in Xi'an, China, Moshe Oren at the Weizmann Institute, and Xiaoming Shen from the Xin Hua Hospital and Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine in China.