Dr. Reza Ardehali, assistant professor of medicine in the division of cardiology, was elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation.
Dr. Keriann Backus, assistant professor of biological chemistry, was named 2019 Beckman Young Investigator by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation.
Dr. Elizabeth Barnert (FEL ’14), assistant professor of pediatrics, received an Outstanding New Member Science Award from the Society for Pediatric Research.
Dr. J. Paul Finn, professor of radiological sciences and medicine, was inducted into the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.
Dr. Jonathan Flint, professor-in-residence of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences and a senior scientist at the Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics at the Jane and Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA, was named a fellow of the Royal Society, the national science academy of the United Kingdom.
Dr. Gregg Fonarow (MD ’87, RES ’90, FEL ’93), Eliot Corday Chair in Cardiovascular Medicine and Science and director of the Ahmanson-UCLA Cardiomyopathy Center, received the 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Heart Association’s Council on Quality of Care and Outcomes Research.
Dr. Beth Karlan, professor of obstetrics and gynecology and director of cancer populations at UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, was inducted into the 2019 class of Giants of Cancer Care in gynecologic malignancies by OncLive.
Dr. Deborah Krakow (FEL ’89), chair of obstetrics/gynecology and a professor of human genetics and orthopaedic surgery, was inducted into the Association of American Physicians.
Dr. Siavash Kurdistani, professor of biological chemistry, was elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation.
Dr. Keith Nuechterlein, Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences and director of the Aftercare Program in the Jane and Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA, received the 2019 Outstanding Clinical/Community Research Award from the Schizophrenia International Research Society.
Dr. Antoni Ribas (FEL ’98, ’01), professor of medicine and director of the tumor immunology program at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy Center at UCLA, received the Thought Leader Award from Agilent Technologies.
Dr. Maureen Su, professor of microbiology, immunology and medical genetics, was elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation.
