Zoghbi newest member of the American Academy of Sciences and Letters

Dr. Huda Zoghbi, Distinguished Service Professor at Baylor College of Medicine, an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and founding Director of the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children’s Hospital, has been invested as a member of the American Academy of Sciences and Letters (the Academy) in recognition of intellectual excellence and courage. 

The investiture was conducted last night by Academy President Donald W. Landry of Columbia University and Board Chair Sanjeev R. Kulkarni of Princeton University in a ceremony at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.

“Like other academies, we honor intellectual excellence, but our Academy is distinguished by a special accent on intellectual courage. All our new members this year reflect the independence of mind we strive to honor,” said Academy President Dr. Donald Landry, M.D., Ph.D., who is also the Hamilton Southworth Professor of Medicine at Columbia University. 

The American Academy of Sciences and Letters promotes scholarship and honors outstanding achievement in the arts, sciences, and learned professions. It supports learning by encouraging the exchange of ideas within academia and in society at large, and by sponsoring occasions for scholarly interaction and providing platforms for the presentation ad dissemination of scholarship in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, mathematics and engineering. 

Zoghbi’s other top recognitions for her work include: the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, the Gairdner Award, the Brain Prize, and the Kavli Prize in Neuroscience. She is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Inventors.

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