WASHINGTON – The National Academy of Sciences has elected a vice president and four members to serve on its governing Council.

Diane E. Griffin, University Distinguished Service Professor in the W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, has been re-elected as vice president. Griffin will continue to be responsible for the Academy's scientific programs and for activities related to communicating with the public about science during her third four-year term beginning July 1, 2021.

Councilors elected to three-year terms beginning July 1, 2021, are: Huda Akil, Distinguished University Professor, department of psychiatry, and senior research professor, The Michigan Neuroscience Institute, University of Michigan; John C. Boothroyd, Burt and Marion Professor of Immunology and professor of microbiology and immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine; Kenneth A. Ribet, professor of mathematics, University of California, Berkeley; and Hao Wu, Asa and Patricia Springer Professor of Structural Biology and professor of biological chemistry and molecular pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, and senior investigator, Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital. The new councilors succeed S. James Gates, Jr., Caroline S. Harwood, Barbara J. Meyer, and Thomas Pollard.

The National Academy of Sciences is a private, nonprofit institution that was established under a congressional charter signed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863. It recognizes achievement in science by election to membership, and — with the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Medicine — provides science, engineering, and health policy advice to the federal government and other organizations.

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