Jason Cyster Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
April 18, 2018 | By Nina Bai
UC San Francisco immunologist Jason Cyster, PhD, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, which honors exceptional scholars, leaders, artists, and innovators.
Cyster is professor of microbiology and immunology at UCSF and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.
He is among the 213 new members elected to the 2018 class, spanning a wide range of disciplines and professions. Among this year’s class are author Ta-Nehisi Coates; actor Tom Hanks; Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff; Netflix CEO W. Reed Hastings, Jr.; Supreme Court Justice Sonia M. Sotomayor; gene editing developer Feng Zhang; and the 44th President of the United States, Barack H. Obama.