Eight Duke Faculty Elected to American Association for the Advancement of Science

Five scientists from Duke University Medical Center and three from Duke University have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). They are recognized for scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications. The AAAS fellows are:

Richard Brennan, Ph.D., chair of the Duke Department of Biochemistry; Bryan Cullen, Ph.D., professor of molecular genetics and microbiology; Mariano Garcia-Blanco, M.D., Ph.D., professor of medicine and professor of molecular genetics and microbiology; Sue Jinks-Robertson, Ph.D., professor of molecular genetics and microbiology; Donald McDonnell, Ph.D., Glaxo-Wellcome Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and chair of the Duke Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology; Ingrid Daubechies, Ph.D., James B. Duke Professor of Mathematics; Xinnian Dong, Ph.D., professor of biology, for her research on the interactions of plants and microbes; and Dan Kiehart, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Biology.