Newswise - University of California, San Diego medical school researcher the researchers Joseph G. Gleeson, MD, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Professor of neuroscience and Pediatrics and Richard D. Kolodner, PhD, Professor of medicine and Ludwig Cancer Research scientist, have been appointed new members of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), considered among the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine.
Gleeson and Kolodner were among 70 new members and 10 foreign partners announced today the IOM annual meeting, bringing the total membership of the IOM to 1966 worldwide. Forty-six members of the Faculty of UC San Diego, current and Emeritus, are members of the IOM.
Joseph Gleeson
Gleeson is the principal investigator at the Center for the development of the brain, a laboratory that seeks to understand the genetic basis of diseases of the brain such as mental retardation, epilepsy and autism using genetic tools. He is also director of the UC San Diego neuroscience Core, Co-Director of the master of Biomedical Sciences and a member of the Institute of genomic medicine at UC San Diego.
He is also a member of the Child Neurology society, the society for Neuroscience and the American Society of human genetics and has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Child Neurology, Journal of Pediatric Neurology and human Molecular Genetics.
Gleeson got his Bachelor's degree in chemistry from UC San Diego and his title of doctor at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. He came to UC San Diego in 1999. His awards and recognition include award Klingenstein Fellowship in neuroscience, a Searle Scholar Award and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Clinical Scientist Award in translational research.
Richard Kolodner
Kolodner, Professor in cellular and molecular medicine of the Faculty of medicine at UC San Diego and UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center, has made seminal contributions to understanding the connection between cancer and the repair of the DNA mismatch - the ability of cells to correct the genetic DNA.
It is member of the National Academy of Sciences (2000), the Academy American of Arts & Sciences (2008), the American Society of Microbiology, the Genetics Society of America and American Association for Cancer Research. He has served on numerous boards advice and review, including the Board of scientific advisors of the national cancer Institute and Howard Hughes Medical Institute criticizes Scientific Council.
Among his awards are the research award of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Morse, the Prix Charles S. Mott of the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation and the Landon-AACR Prize for basic cancer research.
Kolodner received his titles of Bachelor's degree and doctorate in biological sciences from UC Irvine and he worked at the medical school of Harvard to the UC San Diego in 1997.
About the Institute of medicine
Founded in 1970 by the National Academy of Sciences, the IOM serves as an independent, science-based, authoritative advisory group to the federal Government of the United States on various topics ranging from the effects on the health of the intake of salt, cancer care and abuse of minors in the armed forces mental illness and gun violence.
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