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Kevin Raney, Ph.D., in his lab at UAMS.
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UAMS’ Kevin D. Raney, Ph.D., Named Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science
| LITTLE ROCK — Kevin D. Raney, Ph.D., a research leader at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals.
Raney is professor and chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in the UAMS College of Medicine. He joins the 2021 class of 564 scientists, engineers and innovators from around the world spanning 24 disciplines for their scientifically and socially distinguished achievements.
“We were delighted in the College of Medicine that Dr. Raney has been recognized for his distinguished achievements to advance science,” said Susan S. Smyth, M.D., Ph.D., UAMS executive vice chancellor and dean of the college. “Dr. Raney is an outstanding leader and scientist.”
Election as an AAAS Fellow is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers. Raney is being recognized in the chemistry category for his important contributions to the field of molecular motor proteins on nucleic acids and the function of G-quadruplex nucleic acids during response to cellular stress.
The new Fellows will be featured in the AAAS News & Notes section of this month’s Science journal, and will be celebrated later this year during an in-person gathering when it is feasible from a public health and safety perspective.
AAAS is the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science, as well as Science Translational Medicine; Science Signaling; a digital, open-access journal, Science Advances; Science Immunology; and Science Robotics. AAAS was founded in 1848 and includes more than 250 affiliated societies and academies of science, serving 10 million individuals. The nonprofit AAAS is open to all and fulfills its mission to “advance science and serve society” through initiatives in science policy, international programs, science education, public engagement, and more. For additional information about AAAS, visit www.aaas.org.
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