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Named Deanships, Directorships, and Professorships

Endowed positions have a personal and lasting impact.

  1. Natalia Trayanova, Biomedical Engineering

    Dr. Trayanova’s research centers around understanding the normal and pathological electrophysiological and electromechanical behavior of the heart. She is the Murray B. Sachs Professor.

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  2. Arturo Casadevall, Bloomberg School of Public Health

    Dr. Casadevall’s groundbreaking work on infectious diseases is widely known. He has received several of the highest honors in medicine and health, and holds the Alfred and Jill Sommer Professorship and Chairmanship.

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  3. Erin Aeran Chung, Department of Political Science

    Dr. Chung, the inaugural Charles D. Miller Professor, joined the Hopkins faculty in the Department of Political Science in 2004, where she teaches courses in comparative politics and East Asian politics.

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  4. Ko Wang, Carey Business School

    Professor Wang, the R. Clayton Emory Chair in Real Estate and Infrastructure, joined the Carey Business School in 2014 and leads the Edward St. John Real Estate Program.

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  5. Ashani T. Weeraratna, Bloomberg School of Public Health and School of Medicine

    Ashani T. Weeraratna, Ph.D., is the E.V. McCollum Chair of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, and co-leader of the Cancer Invasion and Metastasis Program at the Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center.

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  6. Federico M. Bandi, Carey Business School

    Federico M. Bandi is the inaugural appointee to the James Carey Endowed Professorship in Business at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School.

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June 16, 2016

Alfred and Jill Sommer Professorship and Chair in Molecular Microbiology and Immunology

While working in Indonesia during the 1970s, ALFRED SOMMER, MD, SPH 1973, dean emeritus of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, made the groundbreaking discovery that mild vitamin A deficiency, a common cause of blindness in the developing world, also dramatically increased childhood morbidity and mortality from infectious…

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May 13, 2016

William Foxwell Albright Chair in Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies

WILLIAM FOXWELL ALBRIGHT, whose distinguished career the Meyerhoffs honored through the endowment of this chair, headed the Johns Hopkins program in Near Eastern Studies for nearly 30 years before his retirement in 1958. He was the first major scholar to authenticate the Dead Sea Scrolls and also was held in…

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April 22, 2016

Herbert Baxter Adams Professorship in History

The university's first professor of history, HERBERT BAXTER ADAMS came to Hopkins during its first year of operation in 1876 as a teaching fellow and went on to chair the History and Political Science Department. A foremost scholar of American history, he was a leader in the creation of the American…

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