Posted on May 03, 2017
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine
"Johns Hopkins University faculty members Stephen B. Baylin, M.D., and Robert F. Siliciano, M.D., Ph.D., have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their “distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.”
They are among 84 new members and 21 foreign associates elected. ...
Siliciano is a professor of medicine in the Infectious Diseases Department and an investigator in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He studies HIV, specifically viral reservoirs that prevent curing HIV infection and works to better understand how the T-cell reservoir is established and maintained.
His work has been recognized by a Distinguished Clinical Scientist Award from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and two merit awards from the National Institutes of Health."
