{"id":7379,"date":"2026-02-16T14:47:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T14:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/?p=7379"},"modified":"2026-02-16T14:47:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T14:47:42","slug":"alison-criss-ph-d-named-2026-american-academy-of-microbiology-fellow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/2026\/02\/16\/alison-criss-ph-d-named-2026-american-academy-of-microbiology-fellow\/","title":{"rendered":"Alison Criss, Ph.D., Named 2026 American Academy of Microbiology Fellow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7381 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/467\/2026\/02\/UVa-MIC-Portraits-May2025-JLooney-0722-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/strong>In February, the <em>American Academy of Microbiology<\/em> (The Academy) elected 63 new Fellows to the class of 2026, at the top of the list, Harrison Distinguished Teaching Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology, Dr. Alison Criss, Ph.D.<\/p>\n<p>The honorific leadership group and scientific think tank within the American Society for Microbiology, are elected annually through a highly selective, peer-review process based on their records of scientific achievement and original contributions that have advanced microbiology.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last 50 years,\u00a0more than\u00a02,700 distinguished scientists have been\u00a0elected\u00a0to the Academy,\u202frepresenting\u00a0all subspecialties of\u00a0the microbial\u00a0sciences.\u00a0This year, the Academy received 145\u00a0nominations for\u00a0fellowships\u00a0from across the globe.\u00a0The 63 newly elected fellows\u00a0hail\u00a0from\u00a014\u00a0countries, including\u00a0Australia, Belgium, Canada, China (Mainland), Czech Republic, Denmark, Israel, Netherlands, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United\u00a0Kingdom\u00a0and the United States.<\/p>\n<p>See list of 2026 Fellows and full ASM Article <a href=\"https:\/\/asm.org\/press-releases\/2026\/february\/63-fellows-elected-to-the-american-academy-of-micr\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In February, the American Academy of Microbiology (The Academy) elected 63 new Fellows to the class of 2026, at the top of the list, Harrison Distinguished Teaching Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology, Dr. Alison Criss, Ph.D. The honorific leadership group and scientific think tank within the American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2153,"featured_media":7381,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"acf":false,"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.1.1 - 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