ICTER Co-founder from UC Irvine, Prof. Krzysztof Palczewski, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in the US
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In May this year, Prof. Krzysztof Palczewski, ICTER Co-founder from UC Irvine, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NSA), one of the world’s most respected scientific organizations. The NSA is a private, nonprofit institution that was established under a congressional charter signed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863.
Prof. K. Palczewski came to UCI in 2018 from Cleveland’s Case Western Reserve University to establish the Center for Translational Vision Research at the Gavin Herbert Eye Institute, which is part of the UCI School of Medicine. A member of the National Academy of Medicine, he holds numerous patents and received the Bressler Prize in Vision Science in 2015 and the inaugural Beckman-Argyros Award in Vision Research in 2014.
- Date: 31.05.2022
