Seven University of Michigan Medical School faculty elected as AAAS fellows

U-M had 13 total faculty recognized for scientific achievement

March 27, 2025

Thirteen University of Michigan faculty members earned election as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2024.

Among those 13, seven were U-M Medical School faculty.

The AAAS announced the 471 members of the 2024 class today. Fellows are elected for “efforts on behalf of the advancement of science, or its applications, are scientifically or socially distinguished.”

Michigan Medicine’s 2024 AAAS Fellows include:

Ravi Allada, M.D., executive director of the Michigan Neuroscience Institute; the Theophile Raphael, M.D., collegiate professor of neurosciences; and professor of anesthesiology, for discoveries of core gears of the circadian clock, how those gears drive sleep and wake, and how those pathways are linked to neurodegenerative disease

Kathleen Collins, M.D., Ph.D., professor of internal medicine and of microbiology and immunology, associate dean of physician scientist education and training, and director of the Medical Science Training Program, for distinguished contributions to the field of virology, particularly using primary cell models to study mechanisms of HIV immune evasion and establishment of persistent infection.

Andrzej Dlugosz, M.D., Poth professor of cutaneous oncology, professor of dermatology and of cell & developmental biology, and associate director for basic science research at the Rogel Cancer Center, for distinguished contributions to the fields of dermatology and cancer biology, particularly for the generation of innovative animal models and molecular and mechanistic insights into skin development and skin cancer.

Roman J. Giger, Ph.D., Dr. Richard Mark Newman research professor, professor of cell & developmental biology and of neurology, for distinguished contributions to the field of neural regeneration and neuroinflammation, particularly the identification of immune cell populations and mechanisms that promote axon regeneration following neural injury.

David Markovitz, M.D., professor of internal medicine, division of infectious diseases, for distinguished contributions to the fields of medicine and biomedical research, particularly for studies on endogenous human retroviruses and human cancer biology.

Jack M. Parent, M.D., research professor at the Michigan Neuroscience Institute, William J. Herdman professor of neurology, and co-director of the Michigan Medicine Comprehensive Epilepsy Center, for distinguished contributions to the field of translational neuroscience, particularly adult neurogenesis and acquired epileptogenesis, and applying stem cell biology approaches to understand the mechanisms of severe pediatric genetic epilepsies.

Arvind Rao, Ph.D., professor of computational medicine and bioinformatics, radiation oncology and biostatistics, for distinguished contributions to computational medicine, particularly in developing methodologies for the integrative analysis and interpretation of large datasets for improved clinical decision making.

The University of Michigan's other 2024 fellows are Mark S. Daskin, Ph.D., Mark Guzdial, Ph.D., Margaret C. Levenstein, Ph.D., Sally Oey, Ph.D., Libo Shan, Ph.D., and Stephen A. Smith, Ph.D. All of U-M's past fellows can be viewed on the AAAS site.

Founded in 1848, the American Association for the Advancement of Science began electing fellows in 1874. The new fellows will be celebrated at a forum in Washington, D.C. on June 7, 2025. The 2024 Fellows class will also be featured in the AAAS News & Notes section of the journal Science in March 2025.

About University of Michigan Medical School: The U-M Medical School is committed to educating the next generation of physicians, health professionals and scientists. It is one of the nation's biomedical research powerhouses, with total research awards of more than $830 million. In 2025, the U-M Medical School is celebrating its 175th anniversary. The school was the first to have medical professors who were full university faculty (1850), the first to open a university-owned hospital (1869), the first major medical school to admit women alongside men (1870) and the first to require clinical clerkship training for all students (1899). Learn more about its first 175 years at https://medumi.ch/175th.

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