Henry L. Levin, Ph.D., and Brant M. Weinstein, Ph.D., and David Clark, Ph.D., senior investigators at NIH’s Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), have been elected as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
The AAAS Council, the governing body of the organization, elects fellows “whose efforts on behalf of the advancement of science or its applications are scientifically or socially distinguished.”
Dr. Levin leads the NICHD Section on Eukaryotic Transposable Elements, which analyzes mobile DNA sequences and how their integration into the chromosomes of host cells contributes to their functions and can lead to problems, such as psychiatric and neurologic diseases. He was honored for “distinguished contributions to molecular genetics and microbiology, particularly for elucidating mechanisms of retrotransposon insertion and consequences on gene expression and enlisting transposons for saturation mutagenesis and functional genomics.”
Dr. Levin is a long-time NICHD researcher who also develops novel technologies that rely on transposable elements to characterize genetic function. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Oberlin College and his doctoral degree from the University of California, Berkeley. He completed his postdoctoral work at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Levin joined NICHD as a principal investigator in 1992.
Dr. Weinstein leads the NICHD Section on Vertebrate Organogenesis, which studies early development–particularly the formation of blood and lymphatic vessels–using zebrafish, mouse, cell culture, and cavefish models. He was honored for “distinguished contributions to the field of vascular biology, particularly using genetic methods and confocal microscopy to study the development of blood and lymphatic vessels.”
Dr. Weinstein is a leading expert on zebrafish vascular development. He received his doctoral degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and completed his postdoctoral studies at Harvard/Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Weinstein joined NICHD as a principal investigator in 1997.
Dr. Clark leads the Section on Chromatin and Gene Expression, which studies gene regulation and how changes or defects in genome structure can result in disease. He was honored for “distinguished contributions in molecular genetics, elucidating the dynamic nature of nucleosome positioning in cells, its regulation by multiple chromatin remodeling enzymes, and its role in gene activation.”
Dr. Clark received his doctoral degree from the University of Cambridge and completed his postdoctoral studies at NIH under Gary Felsenfeld, Ph.D, at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Dr. Clark joined NICHD as a principal investigator in 2003.
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