Glazer and Omer Are New Members of National Academy of Medicine - Yale School of Medicine

Two Yale module members, Peter M. Glazer, MD, PhD; and Saad B. Omer, MBBS, MPH, PHD; person been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Medicine, the academy announced today. Founded successful 1970 arsenic the Institute of Medicine the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) is 1 of 3 academies that marque up the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (the National Academies) successful the United States. New members are elected by existent members done a process that recognizes individuals who person made large contributions to the advancement of the aesculapian sciences, wellness care, and nationalist health.

NAM President Victor J. Dzau says of Glazer and Omer and the academy’s 98 different recently elected members, “Their expertise volition beryllium captious to informing the aboriginal of wellness and medicine for the payment of america all. I americium genuinely honored to invited these esteemed individuals to the National Academy of Medicine.”

Peter M. Glazer is seat and Robert E. Hunter Professor of Therapeutic Radiology and prof of genetics. Glazer researches caller strategies for treating crab and the relation of altered DNA repair successful tumor progression. His probe was recognized by the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health with a prestigious Outstanding Investigator Award of $7 cardinal that supports his efforts to exploit DNA repair for crab therapy. He discovered that tumor hypoxia causes familial instability and that mutations successful isocitrate dehydrogenase and related metabolic genes suppress DNA repair successful cancers, conferring vulnerability to PARP inhibitors. His laboratory has developed caller DNA repair inhibitors for crab therapy and has precocious triplex-forming oligonucleotides for cistron editing. His enactment has led to aggregate caller objective trials for crab astatine Yale and elsewhere. Glazer besides leads the radiation oncology programme astatine Smilow Cancer Hospital and its web of attraction centers. He earned some his MD and PhD astatine Yale aft obtaining his BA successful chemistry from Harvard successful 1979 and MSc successful biochemistry from the University of Oxford successful 1981. He joined the Yale School of Medicine module successful the Department of Therapeutic Radiology successful 1991.

Saad B. Omer is the inaugural manager of the Yale Institute for Global Health, Harvey and Kate Cushing Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) astatine Yale School of Medicine, prof of epidemiology of microbial diseases astatine Yale School of Public Health, and adjunct prof astatine Yale School of Nursing. Omer has conducted studies successful the United States, Guatemala, Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, South Africa, and Australia. Omer conducted seminal studies connected maternal immunization arsenic good arsenic connected interventions to trim vaccine refusal and has conducted consequentialist probe during the COVID-19 pandemic. His enactment has been cited successful planetary and country-specific argumentation recommendations and has informed nationalist wellness practice, objective vaccine recommendations, and authorities successful the United States and globally. He serves connected the committee of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and the World Health Organization’s moving radical connected COVID-19 vaccine, for which helium took the pb connected drafting the prioritization roadmap for planetary vaccine allocation. Omer earned his MPH and PhD astatine Johns Hopkins University, aft receiving his aesculapian grade from the Aga Khan University successful Karachi, Pakistan, successful 1998. He joined the Yale module successful 2019.

Nancy J. Brown, MD, Jean and David W. Wallace Dean of Yale School of Medicine, says some Glazer and Omer richly merit the grant of predetermination to NAM. “These 2 bonzer members of our module person distinguished themselves successful crab probe and responses to planetary wellness crises respectively. They correspond the breadth of endowment astatine Yale that is having a wide-ranging interaction connected the wellness of radical astir the world.”

This year’s inductees person afloat rank successful NAM immediately, and volition beryllium formally inducted astatine NAM’s 2023 yearly meeting.