Professor David Virshup, the inaugural Director of the Cancer and Stem Cell Biology Program at the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, has been elected as a Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The appointment is bestowed on AAAS members by their peers to honor their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications.
Dr Virshup, who has a joint appointment as a pediatric oncologist at the Duke University Medical Center, was recognized for his distinguished contributions in the field of signal transduction, particularly in the areas of protein phosphorylation and Wnt signaling. He joins 387 members of AAAS who have been named Fellows this year, and three Duke-NUS colleagues (Professors Mariano Garcia-Blanco, Patrick Casey and Soman Abraham) who were named in 2011 and 2012.
“I am humbled to follow in the footsteps of my colleagues,” said Dr Virshup. “It is an honor, and it's particularly exciting to share it with my mentor Vann Bennett, as well as with my long-time colleague Mike Kastan.” Professors Bennett and Kastan are both Duke University School of Medicine faculty who were also elected Fellows this year.
New Fellows will be presented with an official certificate and a gold and blue (representing science and engineering, respectively) rosette pin on Saturday, 15 February 2014 at the AAAS Annual Meeting in Chicago. This year’s AAAS Fellows will be formally announced in the AAAS News & Notes section of the journal Science on 29 November 2013.
AAAS Fellow Professor David Virshup
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