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INBRE Committee Member elected to Academy of Arts and Scientists

Posted on October 22nd, 2008 at 10:36pm

INBRE External Advisory Committee Member Leonard Zon, MD, was among 212 new members elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in April. One of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies and independent policy research centers, the Academy convenes leaders from diverse perspectives to address the pressing issues of the day, and honors individuals who have made prominent contributions in their disciplines, including mathematics, physics, biological sciences, social science, humanities and the arts, public affairs and business. Founded in 1780, the Academy’s membership has included the finest scholars and leaders of each generation. Its current membership includes 200 Nobel laureates and more than 60 Pulitzer Prize winners. Zon’s laboratory uses zebrafish as a model for understanding vertebrate blood development, and as a screen for tumorrelated genes and proteins. Dr. Zon is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, the Director of the Stem Cell Research Program at Children’s Hospital in Boston, and the Grousbeck Professor in Hematology/Oncology at Harvard University.