Scott Emr, director of Cornell’s Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, and Richard Durrett, Cornell professor of mathematics, have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Emr, who joined the Cornell faculty in 2007, works on uncovering the molecular details of essential processes that occur in all cells. For example, Emr has helped explain how proteins get in and out of cells, processes called endocytosis and secretion that have provided other scientists with new pathways and targets for cutting-edge research on virology, HIV/AIDS, cancer, immunology, development and...

Anthony Bretscher is slated to be the new associate director of the new Cornell Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, scheduled to open in 2008, helping Scott Emr (currently at University of California – San Diego) to develop the...

Scott Emr approaches science first by asking a basic question. Then comes the hard work of finding an answer. A highly respected biologist who has been hired as the Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of ’56 endowed director of a new Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology — the cornerstone of the $650 million New Life Sciences Initiative — Emr has used this scientific method to uncover the molecular details of essential processes that occur in all cells. Emr (pronounced Emmer), currently a University of California-San Diego School of Medicine professor of cellular and molecular medicine and an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, will begin his Cornell appointment in February...