Two from MIT elected to the Institute of Medicine
MIT Professor of Economics Amy Finkelstein and Tyler Jacks, director of the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT, were elected today to the Institute of Medicine, an arm of the National Academies of Science. Election to the institute is an unusual distinction for an economist. Finkelstein, whose work has illuminated the complex social effects of health care programs, is one of only two economists among the 65 new members admitted to the Institute of Medicine this year. Jacks, the David H. Koch Professor of Biology, studies the genetic events that contribute to cancer and led the transition of MIT's Cancer Research Center to the new Koch Institute, which brings scientists and engineers together to develop new ways to detect and treat cancer. The economist is in Finkelstein, who described herself as "pleasantly surprised" by the news, has tackled many questions surrounding...