The National Academy of Sciences announced today that Diane Griffin, MD, PhD, has been elected to serve as a member of the Academy’s Governing Council. Griffin is the Alfred and Jill Sommer Professor and Chair of the at the Johns ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½.
Griffin was one of four Academy members elected to the Governing Council. Her three-year term begins July 1. The Academy also announced that Michael T. Clegg, Donald Bren Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of California, Irvine, was re-elected to a third term as the Academy's foreign secretary.