The 2025 award recipients have been announced. They will be honored in a ceremony on Sunday, April 27 during the National ...

The NAS Award for Scientific Discovery is presented every two years to recognize an accomplishment or discovery in basic research, achieved within the previous five years, that is expected to have a ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Academy Honors 20 for Major Contributions to Science WASHINGTON — The National Academy of Sciences will honor 20 individuals with awards recognizing their extraordinary ...

SPEAKER: Improving SARS-CoV-2 Drug Development: Using AI and Molecular Dynamics to Understand Mutations and Resistance, Yang Li, Global Health Discovery Institute (GHDDI) SPEAKER: Image-based Deepp ...

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Professor Moncada’s scientific career began at the Royal College of Surgeons, where he was part of the team that discovered the mechanism of action of aspirin-like drugs, thus explaining their ...

Insect societies play a dominant role in terrestrial ecology. Their astounding evolutionary success is based on remarkable systems of division of labor involving hundreds and thousands of individual ...

I received an AB in Physics (1961) and a PhD in Biophysics (1968) from Harvard University. For the latter I worked in the laboratory of Keith R. Porter on the morphogenetic action of microtubules in ...

Ulrich Hartl studied Medicine at Heidelberg University and received a doctoral degree in Biochemistry in 1985. He then worked with Walter Neupert in Munich on protein import into mitochondria. In 1987 ...

Cynthia Beall is a biological anthropologist whose research focuses on human adaptation to high-altitude hypoxia, particularly the different patterns of adaptation exhibited by Andean, Tibetan and ...

Jonathan D. G. Jones is a plant molecular geneticist who has made distinctive contributions to understanding how plants resist disease, and to how pathogens circumvent host immune mechanisms. He was ...