Chien & McCammon - AAAS Fellows

April 25, 2006 on 3:44 pm | In Faculty News |

Shu Chien (Bioengineering) and J. Andrew McCammon (Chemistry/Biochemistry) were among the 6 UCSD faculty elected as Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences this week.

From the UCSD press release:
Shu Chien, 74, directs the Whitaker Institute of Biomedical Engineering and is a university professor of bioengineering and medicine. An expert on how blood flow and pressure affect vessels, his research has led to the development of better diagnostic tests and treatments for atherosclerosis and other diseases. Chien was the founding chair of the Jacobs School of Engineering’s Department of Bioengineering, which is ranked among the top programs its kind, and he is one of less than ten scholars worldwide to be elected to all the U.S. national academies. (see press release from the Jacobs School of Engineering)

J. Andrew McCammon, 59, a professor of pharmacology and of chemistry and biochemistry, and an expert in computational biology and chemistry. An investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, he uses sophisticated computer models to examine how protein molecules function so that effective new drugs can be developed.