AAAS selects four NYU faculty as Fellows
Four New York University professors have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Election as an AAAS Fellow is an honor bestowed upon the association's members by their peers.
"These individuals have been elevated to this rank because of their efforts toward advancing science applications that are deemed scientifically or socially distinguished," the association said in announcing this year's fellows.
New Fellows will be honored in mid-February at the Fellows Forum during the 2016 AAAS Annual Meeting in Washington, DC.
The AAAS members from NYU to receive the honor this year were Timothy Bromage, a professor in the Departments of Biomaterials & Biomimetics and Basic Science & Craniofacial Biology at NYU's College of Dentistry and in NYU's Department of Anthropology, as well as three faculty at NYU Langone Medical Center: Hannah Klein, vice chair of the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Pharmacology and a professor in the Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Medicine, and Pathology; Mark Philips, a professor in the Departments of Medicine, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry & Molecular Pharmacology; and William Rom, the Sol and Judith Bergstein Professor of Medicine and professor of Environmental Medicine.
Bromage has made several advances in paleoanthropology, notably through fieldwork, novel optics technologies, and in hard tissue biology, which in human evolutionary research established the fields of growth, development, and life history—the pace at which an organism grows. Klein was honored for her work in identifying proteins critical for the accurate repair of double-strand break DNA damage, which occurs often in human cells and drives cancer risk as we age. Philips has worked to reveal details of small GTPase signaling, including the oncogene RAS , which regulates both normal cell growth and the abnormal growth seen in tumors. Rom was chosen for his work on the public health effects of climate change, and for his research related to the early detection of lung cancer and the immune system's response to tuberculosis.
Provided by New York University