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Gerald F. Joyce Elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Gerald F. Joyce, Scripps Research Institute professor and member of The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s most prestigious honorary societies and a leading center for independent policy research.

In addition to Joyce, the 203 fellows and 17 foreign honorary members inducted this year include Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and screenwriter Neil Simon, Melinda Gates of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, American film icons Clint Eastwood and Mel Brooks, composer Andre Previn, and Amazon founder Jeffrey Bezos.

In the lab, Joyce and his group work to understand how Darwinian evolution at the molecular level helps to shape the living world. The team has developed methods for carrying out evolution in a test tube, with the goal of developing compounds with practical benefit.

In addition to Joyce, 16 other members of the Scripps Research faculty are fellows of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

Also a member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), Joyce’s most recent honors include the NAS Stanley Miller Award. For more information on Joyce, see his Scripps Research faculty web page and laboratory website.

The academy’s class of 2012 will be inducted at a ceremony on October 6 at the academy’s headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Professor Gerald F. Joyce has been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. (Photo by BioMedical Graphics.)

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Gerald F. Joyce Elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences