The US National Academy of Sciences has elected 84 new members and 21 foreign associates “in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research”.
The new members include 26 women, the highest number ever admitted in a year, according to the NAS. Of the foreign associates, five are female.
Among the new members are Robin Canup, associate vice-president of the Planetary Sciences Directorate at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado; Karl Deisseroth, an optogenetics researcher at Stanford University in California; psychiatrist Susan Gelman of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor; and cancer scientist Ronald DePinho of the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas.
The NAS now has 2,152 active members and 430 foreign associates.