--- title: Seven MIT affiliates elected to the National Academy of... description: The National Academy of Medicine elected 100 new members for 2026, including MIT faculty member Michael Yaffe and six MIT alumni. Yaffe, founding director of... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/seven-mit-affiliates-elected-to-the-national-academy-of-medicine-for-2026-gdbbcy40s twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Seven MIT affiliates elected to the National Academy of Medicine for 2026 | daily.dev og:description: The National Academy of Medicine elected 100 new members for 2026, including MIT faculty member Michael Yaffe and six MIT alumni. Yaffe, founding director of... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/seven-mit-affiliates-elected-to-the-national-academy-of-medicine-for-2026-gdbbcy40s og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/gdBbCY40S.png og:image:alt: Seven MIT affiliates elected to the National Academy of Medicine for 2026 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Seven MIT affiliates elected to the National Academy of Medicine for 2026 **[MIT News](https://daily.dev/sources/mit)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The National Academy of Medicine elected 100 new members for 2026, including MIT faculty member Michael Yaffe and six MIT alumni. Yaffe, founding director of the MIT Center for Precision Cancer Medicine, was recognized for discovering phospho Ser/Thr-binding domains in proteins that regulate cell cycle and stress signaling pathways. The six alumni elected are Steven Allen Abrams, Susan L. Ettner, Diane Medved Harper, Albert Icksang Ko, Jennifer Lewis, and Alexander Marson, spanning departments including Biology, Economics, Chemical Engineering, and Materials Science. The academy was established in 1970 as the Institute of Medicine. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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