Dr. Paul Brehm and Dr. Michael Liskay receive AAAS honor

Posted Mar 13, 2009

Researchers Paul Brehm, PhD, and R. Michael Liskay, PhD, have been named American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) fellows. The honor is conferred for distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications. New fellows received an official certificate and rosette pin on Feb.14 during the AAAS annual meeting in Chicago. The AAAS is the world's largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science.

Dr. Brehm, Senior Scientist in the Vollum Institute, was honored for contributions to understanding the cellular and molecular physiology of gap junctional communication, ion channel regulation and synaptic mechanisms.

Dr. Liskay, Professor, Department of Molecular and Medical Genetics, was honored for contributions to mammalian DNA repair and recombination, including early evidence for chromosomal gene conversion and the discovery of a "DNA mismatch repair gene" underlying hereditary colorectal cancer.