Washington, D.C.-In February, the American Academy of Microbiology (the Academy) elected 65 new fellows to the Class of 2025. Fellows of the Academy, the honorific leadership group within the American Society for Microbiology, are elected annually through a highly selective, peer-review process based on their records of scientific achievement and original contributions that have advanced microbiology.
The Academy has over 2,600 fellows representing all subspecialties of the microbial sciences and who are involved in basic and applied research, teaching, public health, industry and government service. This year, the Academy received 146 nominations for fellowship from across the globe. The 65 newly elected fellows hail from 9 countries, including Australia, Denmark, Mexico, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Switzerland, the U.K. and the U.S..
The 2025 Academy Fellows are:
- Adam Lauring, M.D., Ph.D., University of Michigan Medical School.
- Adam Martiny, Ph.D., University of California, Irvine.
- Adilia Warris, M.D. Ph.D., University of Exeter.
- Aindrila Mukhopadhyay, Ph.D., Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
- Alexander Bukreyev, Ph.D., University of Texas Medical Branch.
- Alexandre Soares Rosado, Ph.D., King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
- Alfredo Herrera-Estrella, Ph.D., Center for Research and Advanced Studies, National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico.
- Amal O. Amer, M.D., Ph.D., The Ohio State University.
- Andreas Schramm, Ph.D., Aarhus University.
- Andrew Mehle, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- Arvind Varsani, Ph.D., Arizona State University.
- Babak Javid, Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco.
- Benjamin Pinsky, M.D. Ph.D., Stanford Medicine.
- Chris Todd Hittinger, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- Christian Bréchot, M.D., Ph.D., University of South Florida.
- Clinton Jones, Ph.D., Oklahoma State University.
- Colin R Parrish, Ph.D., Cornell University.
- Craig Altier, DVM Ph.D., Cornell University.
- Denise Kirschner, Ph.D., University of Michigan Medical School.
- Elizabeth Grice, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.
- Eric Martens, Ph.D., University of Michigan.
- Erin Goley, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University.
- Francis A Drobniewski, MBBS, Ph.D., Imperial College London.
- Fredrik Bäckhed, Ph.D., University of Gothenburg.
- Gaya Amarasinghe, Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis.
- Henry Levin, Ph.D., Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health.
- Ian Henderson, Ph.D., The University of Queensland.
- Ira J. Blader, Ph.D., Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
- Iruka Okeke, Ph.D., University of Ibadan, Nigeria.
- Jack A. Gilbert, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego.
- Jane Carlton, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
- Jean-Michel Ané, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- Jeffrey Barrick, Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin.
- J. Kristie Johnson, Ph.D., D(ABMM), University of Maryland School of Medicine.
- Jere McBride, Ph.D., University of Texas Medical Branch.
- Jesse Bloom, Ph.D., Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center.
- John Dennehy, Ph.D., Queens College CUNY.
- Johnson Mak, Ph.D., Griffith University.
- Jordi B. Torrelles, Ph.D., Texas Biomedical Research Institute.
- Jörn Coers, Ph.D., Duke University.
- José Lemos, Ph.D., University of Florida College of Dentistry.
- Judy Lieberman, M.D., Ph.D., Harvard Medical School & Boston Children's Hospital.
- Jürgen Bulitta, Ph.D., University of Florida College of Pharmacy.
- Julie Huber, Ph.D., Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute.
- Kabir Peay, Ph.D., Stanford University.
- Kasthuri Venkateswaran, Ph.D., University of North Dakota.
- Keith Jerome, M.D., Ph.D., University of Washington & Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center.
- Kelly A Brayton, Ph.D., Washington State University.
- Kimberly Kline, Ph.D., MPH, University of Geneva.
- Kirsten Hofmockel, Ph.D., Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
- Kumaran Ramamurthi, Ph.D., National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health.
- Lindsey N. Shaw, Ph.D., University of South Florida.
- Mari Shinohara, Ph.D., Duke University.
- Maria Marco, Ph.D., University of California, Davis.
- Matthew Lawrenz, Ph.D., University of Louisville.
- Miguel A. Valvano, M.D., Queen's University Belfast.
- Neal Alto, Ph.D., University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
- Pablo I. Nikel, Ph.D., Technical University of Denmark.
- Patricia Simner, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
- P'ng Loke, Ph.D., National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health.
- Ramnik J. Xavier, M.D., Harvard Medical School, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard & Massachusetts General Hospital.
- Richard Strugnell, Ph.D., The University of Melbourne.
- Steven Foley, Ph.D., Food and Drug Administration, National Center for Toxicological Research.
- Suchetana Mukhopadhyay, Ph.D., Indiana University Bloomington.
- Thomas Kawula, Ph.D., Washington State University.
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