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Four APS Members Elected to
National Academy of Sciences
Bethesda, Md (May 7, 2007) — Four members of The
American Physiological Society (APS;
www.The-APS.org) were elected to the prestigious National Academy of
Sciences on May 1 in recognition of their “distinguished and continuing
achievements in original research.” They were among the 72 new members and
18 foreign associates selected during the academy’s 144th annual
meeting.
The four APS members selected to the National Academy
are:
John G Hildebrand, professor of neurobiology,
biochemistry and molecular biophysics, entomology and molecular and cellular
biology at the University of Arizona, Tucson. He is also the director of the
Arizona Research Laboratories Division of Neurobiology at the university.
He studies the insect nervous system to discover fundamental
principles common to many or all nervous systems.
Eve E. Marder, professor of neuroscience,
department of biology, and the Volen Center for Complex Systems at Brandeis
University in Waltham, Mass. She is the editor of the Journal of
Neurophysiology and is president-elect of the Society for Neuroscience.
Her research focuses on how interactions between neurons give rise to the
function of neuronal circuits.
Gerald I. Shulman, investigator, Howard Hughes
Medical Institute and professor of medicine and cellular molecular
physiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn. His
research focuses on insulin resistance with an aim to develop therapeutic
targets to reverse insulin resistance in patients with type 2 diabetes.
Masao Ito, director, RIKEN Brain Science
Institute, Saitama, Japan. His research centers on the molecular and
cellular basis for learning and memory. He has served as the president of
the Physiological Society of Japan and is an honorary member of the APS.
The National Academy of Sciences has 2,025 active
members and 387 foreign associates, and more than 200 of them have won the
Nobel Prize. The academy is a private organization formed in 1863 to provide
expert advice to the federal government on scientific and technological
issues. The academy was formed with the approval of Congress and President
Abraham Lincoln.
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Physiology
is the study of how molecules, cells, tissues and organs function to create
health or disease. The American Physiological Society has been an
integral part of this scientific discovery process since it was established
in 1887.
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