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Vanderbilt professor elected to National Academy of Inventors
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Harold “Hal” Moses, MD, has been named a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.
Moses — professor of cancer research and director emeritus of Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, as well as professor and interim chair of cancer biology — was one of 175 academic leaders named to the most recent fellows class.
The honor is intended to recognize academic leaders who demonstrated a “spirit of innovation” in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible positive impact on society.
Much of Moses’ research has focused on growth factors and tumor suppressor genes. He and his colleagues were among the first to isolate and purify transforming growth factor beta and discovered that it could inhibit cell proliferation. Their efforts improved the scientific community’s understanding of the disruption in the balance between positive and negative growth regulators as an underlying cause of cancer.
Moses is former president of the American Association for Cancer Research, as well as the Association of American Cancer Institutes.