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The Association of American Physicians (AAP), a nonprofit professional organization founded in 1885, has announced that Richard Bucala, M.D., Ph.D., Lloyd G. Cantley, M.D., Erol Fikrig, M.D., David M. Rothstein, M.D., and Lawrence H. Young, M.D., have been elected as AAP members.
With about 1,000 active members and approximately 550 emeritus and honorary members from the United States, Canada, and other countries, the AAP supports the pursuit of medical knowledge and the application of basic and clinical science to clinical medicine. Each year, 60 exceptional individuals are nominated for membership by the AAP’s council. Members have included Nobel laureates and members of the National Academy of Science and Institute of Medicine.
Bucala, professor of medicine, pathology, and epidemiology, is an
expert on the role of the cytokine MIF in inflammatory and infectious
diseases. Cantley, professor of medicine and of cellular and molecular
physiology, studies the development and repair of tubules in the kidney
(see related story). Fikrig, who is
Waldemar von Zedtwitz Professor of Medicine as well as professor of
microbial pathogenesis and epidemiology, is a leading researcher on
Lyme disease and West Nile virus. Rothstein, associate professor of
medicine, studies immunosuppression and the induction of tolerance in
the immune system. Young, professor of medicine and of cellular and
molecular physiology, studies the cellular and molecular mechanisms of
adaptation to myocardial ischemia. 
