UCL academics elected to Academy of Medical Sciences

UCL Elected Fellows Twelve UCL scientists have been elected Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences in recognition of their exceptional contributions to the advancement of biomedical and health science, pioneering research and translating developments into benefits for patients and wider society. UCL has more new AMS Fellows this year than any other university. Professors Dame Lyn Chitty DBE, Mehul Dattani, and Ruth Gilbert (all UCL GOS Institute of Child Health), Professor Jugnoo Rahi (UCL GOS Institute of Child Health and Institute of Ophthalmology) Professors Olga Ciccarelli, Henry Houlden, and Ley Sander (all UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology), Professor Aroon Hingorani (UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Science), Professors Helen Lachmann and Stuart Taylor (both UCL Medicine), Professor Troy Margrie (Sainsbury Wellcome Centre at UCL) and Professor Claudia Mauri (UCL Infection & Immunity) are among 59 influential biomedical and health scientists elected to the Fellowship this year. Fellows are drawn from institutions across the UK and their breadth of expertise ranges from molecular imaging to biostatistics to public health policy. This year's elected scientists join a prestigious Fellowship of 1,400 esteemed researchers who are central to the Academy's work. The academics from UCL are: Professor Dame Lyn Chitty DBE (UCL GOS Institute of Child Health) Professor Chitty has been based at UCL's GOS Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) since the 1980s and is the UK's only Professor of Genetics and Fetal Medicine.