Ten Johns Hopkins University researchers are among 449 distinguished scholars elected to the newest class of fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, or AAAS, the world’s largest general scientific society. Fellows are selected annually for their contributions to their respective fields and the body of science as a whole.

The 2025 class of fellows will be celebrated in Washington, D.C., on May 29.

The AAAS Fellows from the Institute for NanoBioTechnology include:

Jeff Coller

Jeff Coller

Jeff Coller is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of RNA Biology and Therapeutics with appointments in the Whiting School of Engineering and the School of Medicine. He is also a core researcher at the Institute for NanoBioTechnology. His research has produced seminal discoveries in messenger RNA stability and translation, demonstrating that the genetic code is a major determinant of mRNA fate and reshaping our understanding of gene expression. He is co-founder of Tevard Biosciences and WyveRNA Therapeutics and holds numerous patents for RNA-based therapeutic applications.

Kalina Hristova

Kalina Hristova

Kalina Hristova is a professor of materials science and engineering in the Whiting School. She is also a core researcher at the Institute for NanoBioTechnology. Her research focuses on membrane protein folding and signal transduction, with a particular emphasis on receptor tyrosine kinases—proteins frequently dysregulated in cancer—for which she has developed novel quantitative methodologies to study their activation and function. Hristova is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and a recipient of the Biophysical Society’s Dayhoff Award.

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