Awards, Appointments, Announcements

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Mathilde Krim, Ph.D., founding co-chair and chairman of the board of the American Foundation for AIDS Research, received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Clinton last month.

Krim worked for several years at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel researching cytogenetics and cancer-causing viruses. In 1959, she joined the research staff of Cornell University Medical School and then took a position at the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, where she directed its Interferon Laboratory from 1981 to 1985.

She is an adjunct professor of public health and management at the Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University, and she is a member of the advisory council of the Office of AIDS Research at the National Institutes of Health.

The Medal of Freedom is the highest civilian award bestowed by the U.S. government. It is awarded by the President to people he deems to have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors. Fifteen people received a medal this year.