The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
The ASCI is pleased to recognize the three joint recipients of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: William G. Kaelin Jr., MD, Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe, and Gregg L. Semenza, MD, PhD. The Prize, announced October 7, was awarded to the researchers for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability.
Call for nominations: 2020 Seldin~Smith Award
Nominations for the 2020 Donald Seldin~Holly Smith Award for Pioneering Research are being accepted through November 1, 2019.
New JCI Insight Editor: Kathleen L. Collins, MD, PhD
Dr. Collins begins her tenure as JCI Insight Editor in Chief on September 1, 2019. She succeeds Dr. Howard A. Rockman, who served as the first Editor in Chief of the journal, which started publication in January 2016. Read more
Advocating for the physician-scientist community
The ASCI is a member society of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology and Research!America. These organizations work to promote increased federal funding and sound science policy through direct Congressional advocacy and member participation.