HWNI members Diana Bautista and Lexin Li have been selected as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), one of the world’s largest general scientific societies and publisher of the Science family of journals.
Bautista is a professor of molecular and cell biology, and she received this lifetime honor for her “distinguished investigations into the neuroimmune mechanisms that drive chronic itch, including the identification of critical mechanisms and molecules that are now targets for therapy.”
Li is a professor of public health, and he was named a fellow “for distinguished contributions to statistical neuroimaging analysis, brain connectivity and network analysis, tensor data analysis, dimension reduction and variable selection, including deep learning and reinforcement learning.”
