AAAS, the world’s largest general scientific society, announced that 502 scientists, engineers, and innovators have been chosen for the lifetime honor for their scientifically and socially distinguished achievements
Congratulations to our faculty member Jordan Shavit, M.D. for being recognized as an AAAS Fellow!
Jordan Shavit, the Henry and Mala Dorfman Family Professor of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology and professor of pediatrics and human genetics at the Medical School, for the care of pediatric patients with blood and cardiovascular diseases, including hemophilia, von Willebrand disease, thrombosis, and thrombophilia. His laboratory studies the genetics of such disorders using genome editing in zebrafish.
Eligible nominees are members whose efforts on behalf of the advancement of science or its applications are scientifically or socially distinguished and who have been continuous AAAS members for at least four years leading up to the year of nomination. Fellows have included Thomas Edison, W.E.B DuBois, Maria Mitchell, Steven Chu, Ellen Ochoa, and Irwin M. Jacobs.
