October 10, 2023
The National Academy of Medicine announced the election of 100 new members to join their esteemed ranks in 2023, among them five MIT faculty members and seven additional affiliates.
Among them is Morgan Sheng professor of neuroscience in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, an affiliate member of The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT and a member of The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. Sheng is pictured above in the middle of the bottom row.
Election to the academy is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine and recognizes individuals who have demonstrated outstanding professional achievement and commitment to service, the academy noted in announcing the election of its new members.
Sheng was elected “for transforming the understanding of excitatory synapses. He revealed the postsynaptic density as a protein network controlling synaptic signaling and morphology; established the paradigm of signaling complexes organized by PDZ scaffolds; and pioneered the concept of localized regulation of mitochondria, apoptosis, and complement for targeted synapse elimination.”
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