The American Academy of Arts and Sciences has inducted two University of Virginia professors into its ranks.
Professor Danielle Citron of the School of Law and F. Palmer Weber Medical Research Professor Dr. Mariano A. Garcia-Blanco of the School of Medicine were welcomed in ceremonies held Sept. 29 and 30 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
According to the organization’s mission statement, “The American Academy of Arts and Sciences honors excellence and convenes leaders from every field of human endeavor to examine new ideas, address issues of importance to the nation and the world and work together to cultivate every art and science, which may tend to advance the interest, honor, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people.”
At UVA, Citron is the Jefferson Scholars Foundation Schenck Distinguished Professor in Law and Caddell and Chapman Professor of Law. She is the inaugural director of the school’s LawTech Center, which focuses on pressing questions in law and technology, and a co-host of the Law School podcast, “Common Law.”
Her latest book, “The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age,” is about the “central role that intimate privacy plays in our lives,” and the need to protect it. The book was named by Amazon among its top 100 books of 2022.
Garcia-Blanco chairs the School of Medicine’s Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology. He is a leading researcher into how the genetic material called RNA influences immunity to disease. Garcia-Blanco made headlines in June for discovering a key factor that determines our risk for multiple sclerosis, advancing efforts to better treat and prevent the often-debilitating disease.
Shortly before that, his team made an important discovery about the transmission of dangerous dengue viruses, revealing how the saliva of carrier mosquitoes can thwart the human immune system and make it easier for people to become infected.
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December 30, 2024
