{"id":2388,"date":"2006-11-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-29T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vermont.salk.edu\/news-release\/salk-scientists-named-2006-aaas-fellows\/"},"modified":"2006-11-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-29T08:00:00","slug":"salk-scientists-named-2006-aaas-fellows","status":"publish","type":"disclosure","link":"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/es\/news-release\/salk-scientists-named-2006-aaas-fellows\/","title":{"rendered":"Salk scientists named 2006 AAAS Fellows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>La Jolla, CA  \u2013 Professors <a href=\"\/es\/faculty\/sejnowski.html\/\">Terrence J. Sejnowski<\/a> y <a href=\"\/es\/faculty\/verma.html\/\">Inder Verma<\/a> have  been awarded the distinction of AAAS Fellow. Election as a Fellow of the  American Association for the Advancement of Science is an honor bestowed upon  members by their peers. <\/p>\n<p>Sejnowski, Ph.D., who heads the Crick-Jacobs Center  for Computational and Theoretical Biology at the Salk Institute for Biological  Studies and is an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, has  been selected for his &#8220;outstanding contributions in computational neuroscience  and for founding Neural Computation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sejnowski,  who joined the Salk in 1988, tries to understand the computational resources of brains and to build linking  principles from brain to behavior using computational  models. He pursues his goal by combining both experimental and  modeling techniques to study the biophysical properties of the connections  between brain cells and the population dynamics of large networks of neurons.  He recently showed that the release of chemical signals from nerves isn&#8217;t  restricted to synapses the ends of nerve fibers in ciliary ganglia, as  neuroscientists had previously believed, but is mostly released outside the  expected region. Neural Computation, which he founded in 1989 shortly after  arriving at the Salk Institute, is the leading journal in neural information processing  in artificial and biological systems.<\/p>\n<p>Verma, Ph.D., a professor in the Laboratory of  Genetics and American Cancer Society Professor for Molecular Biology, has been  selected for his &#8220;pioneering use of lentiviral vectors to introduce foreign  genes efficiently into brain, liver, muscle, retina, hematopoietic, and  embryonic stem cells.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Verma joined the Salk in 1974 and quickly became one  of the world&#8217;s leading authorities on the development of viruses for gene  therapy vectors. He and his colleagues established the use of stripped down  versions of viruses, HIV in particular, that can deliver genes to non-dividing  cells, which constitute the majority of cells in our bodies. He has used these  vectors successfully to deliver the clotting factor gene to laboratory animals,  to reduce the  amount of an enzyme that is crucial for the development of Alzheimer&#8217;s disease, and to transfer a therapeutic gene to retinal cells to mice with  an inborn deficiency.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s AAAS Fellows were announced in the AAAS  News &#038; Notes section of the journal Science on Nov. 24, 2006. New Fellows  will be honored on Feb. 17 during the 2007 AAAS Annual Meeting in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>The tradition of AAAS Fellows began in 1874.  Currently, members can be considered for the rank of Fellow if nominated by the  Steering Groups of the Association&#8217;s 24 sections, or by any three Fellows who  are current AAAS members (so long as two of the three sponsors are not  affiliated with the nominee&#8217;s institution), or by the AAAS Chief Executive  Officer. <\/p>\n<p>Each Steering Group then reviews the nominations of  individuals within its respective section and a final list is forwarded to the  AAAS Council, which votes on the aggregate list. <\/p>\n<p>The Council is the policymaking body of the  Association, chaired by the AAAS President, and consisting of the members of  the Board of Directors, the Retiring Section Chairs, delegates from each  electorate and each regional division, and two delegates from the National  Association of Academies of Science.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"># # #<\/p>\n<p>The Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California,  is an independent nonprofit organization dedicated to fundamental discoveries  in the life sciences, the improvement of human health and the training of  future generations of researchers. Jonas Salk, M.D., whose polio vaccine all  but eradicated the crippling disease poliomyelitis in 1955, opened the  Institute in 1965 with a gift of land from the City of San Diego and the financial support of the  March of Dimes.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">* * *<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"> The American Association for the Advancement of  Science (AAAS) is the world&#8217;s largest general scientific society, and publisher  of the journal, Science (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.sciencemag.org<\/a>). AAAS was founded in 1848, and  includes some 262 affiliated societies and academies of science, serving 10  million individuals. Science has the largest paid circulation of any  peer-reviewed general science journal in the world, with an estimated total  readership of 1 million. The non-profit AAAS (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaas.org\">www.aaas.org<\/a>) is open to all and  fulfills its mission to &#8220;advance science and serve society&#8221; through  initiatives in science policy; international programs; science education; and  more. For the latest research news, log onto EurekAlert!, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\">www.eurekalert.org<\/a>,  the premier science-news Web site, a service of AAAS.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","faculty":[115,114],"disease-research":[],"class_list":["post-2388","disclosure","type-disclosure","status-publish","hentry","faculty-inder-verma","faculty-terrence-sejnowski"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Salk scientists named 2006 AAAS Fellows - Salk Institute for Biological Studies<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/es\/news-release\/salk-scientists-named-2006-aaas-fellows\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Salk scientists named 2006 AAAS Fellows - Salk Institute for Biological Studies\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"La Jolla, CA \u2013 Professors Terrence J. 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