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Members elected in 2025 are introduced to their colleagues in the Academy and sign the "Registry of Membership." NAS membership is a widely accepted mark of excellence in science and is considered one of the highest honors that a scientist can receive. Members are elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
Members Elected in 2025
Cory Abate-Shen, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Reka Albert, The Pennsylvania State University - University Park
David M. Altshuler, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Raul Andino Pavlovsky, University of California, San Francisco
Paola Arlotta, Harvard University
M. Amin Arnaout, Massachusetts General Hospital
Jean-Philippe Avouac, California Institute of Technology
Amy L. Baker, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Rina Foygel Barber, The University of Chicago
Christoph Benning, Michigan State University
Steven T. Berry, Yale University
Robert T. Boyd, Arizona State University
Rodney A. Brooks, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Gary W. Brudvig, University of California, Santa Cruz
C. Robin Buell, New York University Langone Medical Center
David A. Case, Rutgers University
BJ Casey, Barnard College
Garnet K. Chan, California Institute of Technology
Edward F. Chang, University of California, San Francisco
Alice Y. Cheung, University of Massachusetts
Peter U. Clark, Oregon State University
Kathleen Collins, University of California, Berkeley
Michael F. Crommie, University of California, Berkeley
George Q. Daley, Harvard Medical School
Mark J. Devlin, University of Pennsylvania
Brenda L. Dingus, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Scott C. Doney, Rutgers, University of Virginia
John M. Doyle, Harvard University
Mary Droser, University of California, Riverside
Susan K. Dutcher, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
William C. Earnshaw, University of Edinburgh
Bruce A. Edgar, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah
Jonathan A. Ellman, Yale University
Phoebe C. Ellsworth, University of Michigan
Adrienne Fairhall, University of Washington
Shanhui Fan, Stanford University
Sherilyn C. Fritz, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Mariano A. Garcia-Blanco, University of Virginia
Margaret L. Gardel, The University of Chicago
Leonid Glazman, Yale University
Margaret A. Goodell, Baylor College of Medicine
Alison Gopnik, University of California, Berkeley
Julia R. Greer, California Institute of Technology
David B. Grusky, Stanford University
Heidi E. Hamm, Vanderbilt University
Moty Heiblum, Weizmann Institute of Science
David W. Hertzog, University of Washington
Mark Hochstrasser, Yale University
Jeffery R. Holt, Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital
Russell Impagliazzo, University of California, San Diego
Roger W. Innes, Indiana University at Bloomington
Hailing Jin, University of California, Riverside
Steven M. Kahn, University of California, Berkeley
Daniel M. Kammen, Johns Hopkins University
Katalin Karikó, University of Szeged
Lydia E. Kavraki, Rice University
Raymond E. Keller, University of Virginia
Virginia M.-Y. Lee, University of Pennsylvania
Greg Lemke, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Fanghua Lin, New York University
Peter B. Littlewood, The University of Chicago
Jianguo Liu, Michigan State University
Jun Liu, Harvard University
William H. Matthaeus, University of Delaware
Heather D. Maynard, University of California, Los Angeles
Svetlana Mojsov, The Rockefeller University
Michelle Monje, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Norman W. Murray, University of Toronto
Cornelis Murre, University of California, San Diego
Eric J. Nestler, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
H. Frederik Nijhout, Duke University
Ruth Nussinov, National Cancer Institute, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research
Scott E. Page, University of Michigan
Parag A. Pathak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
James W. Pennebaker, University of Texas at Austin
Daniel R. Pérez, University of Georgia
Stanley Perlman, The University of Iowa
Richard E. Petty, The Ohio State University
Sorin T. Popa, University of California, Los Angeles
Jonathan K. Pritchard, Stanford University
Marilyn Raphael, University of California, Los Angeles
David Reichman, Columbia University
Cecilia L. L. Ridgeway, Stanford University
Robert O. Ritchie, University of California, Berkeley
G. Philip Robertson, Michigan State University
David Sacks, University of California, Davis
Richmond Sarpong, University of California, Berkeley
Heidi M. Schellman, Oregon State University
Shu-ou Shan, California Institute of Technology
Beth A. Shapiro, University of California, Santa Cruz
Kang Shen, Stanford University
Ali Shilatifard, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Eric P. Skaar, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Eduardo D. Sontag, Northeastern University
Mary C. Stiner, University of Arizona
Thomas C. Terwilliger, New Mexico Consortium
Lloyd N. Trefethen, Harvard University
Compton J. Tucker III, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Shannon Turley, Amgen, Inc.
Rodney K. Tweten, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Risa H. Wechsler, Stanford University
Benjamin P. Weiss, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
E. John Wherry III, University of Pennsylvania
Kelin X. Whipple, Arizona State University
Melanie Matchett Wood, Harvard University
Jerry L. Workman, Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Rosemary F. Wyse, Johns Hopkins University
Yukiko Yamashita, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Martin T. Zanni, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jizhong Zhou, University of Oklahoma
International Members Elected in 2025 (Country of Citizenship)
Francis Albarède, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon (France)
Laura Baudis, University of Zurich (Switzerland)
Wendy Bickmore, University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom)
Immanuel Bloch, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat (Germany)
Nina Buchmann, ETH Zurich (Switzerland)
Kelly Chibale, University of Cape Town (South Africa)
Elena Conti, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry (Germany)
John E. Dick, University Health Network (Canada)
Véronique Gouverneur, University of Oxford (United Kingdom)
Sergiu Hart, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel)
Klas Kärre, Karolinska Institutet (Sweden)
Desmond King, University of Oxford (United Kingdom)
Taroh Kinoshita, The University of Osaka (Japan)
Matthias Mann, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry (Germany)
Andrew J. McMichael, University of Oxford (United Kingdom)
Gero Miesenböck, University of Oxford (United Kingdom)
Jerry X. Mitrovica, Harvard University
Penny L. Moore, University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa)
Morris Moscovitch, University of Toronto (Canada)
Uta Paszkowski, University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)
Sriram R. Ramaswamy, Indian Institute of Science (India)
John P. Smol, Queen's University (Canada)
Rotem Sorek, Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel)
Valeria Souza, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (Mexico)
Aleksandra M. Walczak, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France)
Members Elected Prior to 2025 (Year of Election)
Joan W. Conaway, UT Southwestern Medical Center (2020)
Eveline Crone, Erasmus University Rotterdam (2024)