Four Ludwig researchers elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Four Ludwig researchers were elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (AAAS) in April. Established in 1780, the AAAS, in its own words, “honors excellence and convenes leaders from every field of human endeavor to examine new ideas, address issues of importance to the nation and the world and work together ‘to cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honor, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people.’” Suffice it to say that membership to this Academy is an especially high honor. Its members have included such legends as Benjamin Franklin, Martin Luther King, Jr., Charles Darwin and Margaret Mead. This year, Ludwig Princeton Associate Director Eileen White was elected to the Cellular and Developmental Biology section of their Class II – Biological Sciences division. Joining her in the 2024 class of the AAAS were Ludwig Chicago’s Chuan He, in the Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology section, and Ludwig Harvard’s Kornelia Polyak and Arlene Sharpe, elected to the Medical Sciences and Microbiology and Immunology sections, respectively. Our congratulations to them all on this well-deserved recognition of their work and their many contributions to cancer biology.