Richard Redett III has been named physician-in-chief for Johns Hopkins Medicine and vice dean for clinical affairs for the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Redett is a professor and director of the Johns Hopkins Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and a professor of pediatrics. His areas of clinical expertise include cleft lip and palate surgery, facial paralysis, pediatric burn surgery and reconstruction, and genital reconstruction.

Two researchers from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have been elected 2024 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the largest scientific society in the world.

James Berger, director of the Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences at the School of Medicine, is a biophysics expert who studies how the structure and mechanism of molecular machines inside cells help control DNA replication, regulate how genes make proteins, and guide the chromosomes that contain genetic information to twist, bend, fold and change shape.

Gregory Dale Kirk, a professor of medicine, epidemiology and oncology, is an infectious diseases epidemiologist and academic leader at the school of medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health whose research focuses on understanding the long-term consequences of living with HIV or hepatitis.