Co-chair of the Society’s Scientific Advisory Board receives one of highest honors in science
The FSHD Society is proud to share the news that David J. Glass, MD, co-chair of its Scientific Advisory Board, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). Election to the Academy is an award granted to scientists that the NAS judges to have made “distinguished and continuing achievements in original research”. Membership in the Academy is considered one of the highest honors that a scientist can receive. Dr. Glass’s election means that we now have three NAS members serving on our Scientific Advisory Board. The others are David Housman, PhD, (co-chair) and Lewis Kunkel.
Dr. Glass is currently Vice President of Research, overseeing a group focused on Aging and Age-associated Disorders, and is the head of the Postdoctoral fellow program at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. In addition to serving on the Scientific Advisory Board of the FSHD Society, he is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School, and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Genetics & Development at Columbia University’s Vagelos School of Medicine. He holds a BS from Columbia, an MD from New York Medical College and conducted postdoctoral work at Columbia University. He’s an elected fellow of AAAS and ASCI, and an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Dr. Glass is the co-author of more than 130 peer-reviewed research articles on cell signaling mechanisms in neuromuscular junction formation, skeletal muscle atrophy & hypertrophy, obesity, and mechanisms associated with aging. He’s the author of “Experimental Design for Biologists,” published by Cold Spring Harbor Press, which is now in its 2nd edition; and he teaches a course on the same topic at Harvard Medical School.
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