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...Professor Ichiro Kawachi, induction into the Institute of Medicine is “like getting voted into the baseball hall of fame.” And this year, he’s far from alone at Harvard—which provided 11 of the IOM’s 65 new members announced this week...
When asked why Harvard faculty members represent such a large proportion of this year’s new inductees, Cell Biology Professor Alfred L. Goldberg ’63 said that “Harvard is a particularly strong center for medical research...
Isaac S. Kohane, a professor of pediatrics at the Medical School, added that the “stimulating environment [of Harvard] allows many novel ideas to be pursued...
Kohane also said that the intellectual environment at Harvard is as diverse as it is progressive. The breadth of research that the newly-inducted professors have conducted is evidenced by their range of study—while one professor sought to sequence the genome of a parasitic worm, another applied computer models to disease outbreak...
Many recipients appeared to harbor a humility best articulated by Genetics Professor Gary B. Ruvkun, who said that “in my particular case...I could have imagined that the medical community wouldn’t have taken notice [of my work...