Two Yale faculty members elected to National Academy

Two faculty members in the biological sciences were among 105 new members and foreign associates elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in April. Election to the academy is one of the most prestigious honors in science.

Ronald Breaker, Ph.D., the Henry Ford II Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, and professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, is one of the world‘s experts on the diversity and function of RNAs, which are crucial to carrying out a host of life processes. Xing Wang Deng, Ph.D., the Daniel C. Eaton Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology; the Daniel C. Eaton Professor of Plant Biology; is the director of the Peking-Yale joint center for plant molecular genetics and agrobiotechnology.