Two UF Medicine faculty named fellows of American Association for the Advancement of Sciences
AAAS is the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals
April 18, 2024 — The American Association for the Advancement of Science, or AAAS, the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals, has elected 12 faculty from the University of Florida to its newest class, including two from the College of Medicine.
The honor, which includes alumni such as Thomas Edison and W.E.B. DuBois, is among the most distinguished in the scientific community and recognizes extraordinary impact and achievement across disciplines, from research, teaching and technology and administration in academia, industry and government to excellence in communicating and interpreting science to the public.
Read more about the College of Medicine faculty recently elected as fellows:
Jonathan Licht, M.D.
Jonathan Licht, M.D., is the director of the UF Health Cancer Center, the Marshall E. Rinker Sr. Chair and a professor in the UF College of Medicine. A visionary physician-scientist, his lab studies aberrant gene regulation as a cause of blood cancers and develops treatment strategies to reverse abnormal, cancer-causing gene functions. His cancer career spans more than three decades, and his research program is distinguished by more than 30 years of continuous funding from the National Cancer Institute and national foundations. He leads a Specialized Center of Research program from the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and has authored more than 220 publications with nearly 34,000 citations. Licht has mentored more than 40 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows and 20 faculty members.
Linda S. Cottler, Ph.D., M.P.H.
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Linda B. Cottler, Ph.D., M.P.H., FACE, is a dean’s professor of epidemiology at the UF College of Public Health and Health Professions and the College of Medicine. She has developed reliable, widely used assessments for substance use and other psychiatric disorders in the general population and has contributed to the classification of substance abuse and dependence disorders. The director of community engagement for the UF Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Cottler is founding director of HealthStreet, a community engagement program designed to improve access to research and medical and social services. She has published more than 350 articles and chapters, has been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health since 1988, and is the recipient of numerous awards for her research and mentoring.
