Named Deanships, Directorships, and Professorships
Endowed professorships have a personal and lasting impact.
G. Sayeed Choudury
Mr. Choudhury, who holds the Hodson Directorship in Digital Research, was appointed associate director of the Sheridan Libraries digital programs in 2003.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sol Goldman Professorship in Pancreatic Cancer Research
Drawn to Johns Hopkins when their mother Lillian passed away from pancreatic cancer, the Goldman Family of New York decided to take action against the disease that took their mother’s life. In 2005, they endowed the Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center in the Department of Pathology at Johns Hopkins,…
PAUL ENGLUND received his PhD from Rockefeller University in 1966. Following post-doctoral training at Stanford University in the Department of Biochemistry, he joined the faculty in the Department of Biological Chemistry at Johns Hopkins University in 1968. In 2010 he retired and is now a Professor Emeritus. At Stanford, he worked…
Ms. MARCELLA E. WOLL made a generous bequest to the Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins Medicine, and directed the funds to support the search for a cure for macular degeneration, a condition she suffered from in her lifetime. The MARYLAND E-NNOVATION INITIATIVE FUND (MEIF), administered by the Maryland Department of…
CLAYTON D. HARRO, MD, ScD (May 30, 1964-11/24/2014) completed his medical training at Upstate Medical University, Baystate Medical Center, and The Johns Hopkins University, he served as a respected leader in vaccine development at The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. Over the course of his career, Dr.…
Bloomberg Distinguished Professorship in Nanomaterials
MICHAEL R. BLOOMBERG is the founder of Bloomberg LP, Philanthropist, UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Cities and Climate Change, World Health Organization Global Ambassador for Noncommunicable Diseases, and three-term mayor of New York City. He is an entrepreneur and philanthropist who served as mayor of New York City from 2002-2013 after leading…
Bloomberg Distinguished Professorship in Exoplanetary Physics
MICHAEL R. BLOOMBERG is the founder of Bloomberg LP, Philanthropist, UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Cities and Climate Change, World Health Organization Global Ambassador for Noncommunicable Diseases, and three-term mayor of New York City. He is an entrepreneur and philanthropist who served as mayor of New York City from 2002-2013 after leading…
CLYDE FRANKLIN WILLIAMS and RUTH E. (Gatton) WILLIAMS, made an estate gift to Johns Hopkins that enabled the creation of an endowed professorship as well as a scholarship in their names. Mr. Williams served as an infantry staff sergeant in the U.S. Army during WWII. He and Ruth married in…
Anne Gaines and G. Thomas Miller Endowed Professorship
ANNE G. and G. THOMAS “Tom” MILLER, members of “The Greatest Generation”, were married for sixty-three years. From the outset, a strong commitment to community and public service was a hallmark of their remarkable union. Tom Miller was a United States Army officer in WWII and the Korean conflict. He…
D. William Schlott, MD, Professorship in Clinical Medicine
D. WILLIAM SCHLOTT, MD, is the former Philip A. Tumulty Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He was the first to hold the Tumulty chair. He has spent his fifty-plus year career at Hopkins: as a medical student, an intern and…
