Seven Vanderbilt University faculty members, including four from Vanderbilt University Medical Center, have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), one of the world’s largest general scientific societies and publisher of the Science family of journals.
The new Vanderbilt fellows are among 502 scientists, engineers and innovators who have been elected to the 2023 class of AAAS Fellows across 24 disciplinary sections. They will be honored at the annual Fellows Forum and invited to attend the association’s 150th Anniversary Gala on Sept. 21 in Washington, D.C.
The new fellows are:
• David Cliffel, PhD, Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair and professor of Chemistry, professor of Physics & Astronomy, and associate professor of Pediatrics.
• Volker Haase, MD, Krick-Brooks Chair in Nephrology, professor of Medicine, and professor of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics.
• Janet Macdonald, PhD, associate professor of Chemistry and associate director of the Interdisciplinary Materials Science Program.
• Xiao-Ou Shu, MD, PhD, MPH, Ingram Professor of Cancer Research and professor of Medicine.
• Jada Benn Torres, PhD, associate professor of Anthropology.
• Keith Wilson, MD, Thomas F. Frist Sr. Professor of Medicine and professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology.
• Wei Zheng, MD, PhD, MPH, Anne Potter Wilson Professor of Medicine, chief of the Division of Epidemiology, and director of the Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center.
This election brings to 95 the number of AAAS fellows who are current members of the Vanderbilt University faculty. Thirty-seven of them are in the Department of Medicine and other clinical departments of Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
