Bloomberg Distinguished Professorships
# Bloomberg Distinguished Professorships

Bloomberg Distinguished Professorships were established as part of a $350 million investment by Michael Bloomberg, Hopkins class of 1964, to Johns Hopkins University in 2013. Fifty faculty members, ten from Johns Hopkins University and forty recruited from institutions worldwide, will be chosen for these endowed professorships based on their research, teaching, service, and leadership records. In December 2021, it was announced that the program would be doubled in size, with an additional fifty professors bringing the total to one hundred scholars, made possible by a new investment by Michael Bloomberg. With recruitment beginning in 2022, the majority of the new professors will be recruited to work in clusters. These faculty-developed interdisciplinary clusters will recruit Bloomberg Distinguished Professors and junior faculty to Johns Hopkins University with the aim of conducting transformational research in crucial areas.

The Bloomberg Distinguished Professorship program is directed and managed by Johns Hopkins University vice provost for research, Dr. Denis Wirtz. As of January 2022, 54 Bloomberg Distinguished Professorships have been announced.

## Purpose

The professorships will create interdisciplinary connections and collaborations across Johns Hopkins University, train and mentor undergraduate and graduate students, and strengthen the university's leadership in research fields of international interest. Each of the Bloomberg Distinguished Professors will be appointed in at least two divisions or disciplines. The program aims to bridge traditional research disciplines in order to tackle complex problems such as cancer, urban poverty, and health disparities.

## Bloomberg Distinguished Professors

| Professor | Professorship research area | Installation year |
| - | - | - |
| Peter Agre | malaria | 2014 |
| Rexford S. Ahima | diabetes | 2016 |
| Nicole Baumgarth | immunology and infectious diseases | 2022 |
| James Bellingham | exploration robotics | 2021 |
| Charles L. Bennett | space, experimental astrophysics, and cosmology | 2015 |
| Otis Brawley | oncology and epidemiology | 2019 |
| Filipe Campante | political economy and governance | 2018 |
| Christopher Cannon | medieval literature and culture | 2017 |
| Arturo Casadevall | molecular microbiology and immunology, infectious diseases | 2015 |
| Nilanjan Chatterjee | biostatistics and genetic epidemiology | 2015 |
| Rama Chellappa | computer vision and machine learning | 2020 |
| Kris Chesky | performing arts health | 2023 |
| Christopher G. Chute | health informatics | 2015 |
| Jeffery Coller | RNA biology and therapeutics | 2020 |
| Lisa Cooper | health equity | 2016 |
| Chi Van Dang | cancer medicine | 2022 |
| Mikala Egeblad | tumor microenvironment | 2023 |
| Andrew Feinberg | epigenetics | 2015 |
| Paul Ferraro | human behavior and public policy | 2015 |
| Jessica Gill | trauma recovery biomarkers | 2021 |
| Rachel Green | biology and genetics | 2017 |
| Taekjip Ha | Single-molecule biophysics | 2015 |
| Richard L. Huganir | neuroscience and brain sciences | 2018 |
| Jack Iwashyna | social science and justice in medicine | 2023 |
| Lawrence Jackson | English and history | 2017 |
| Patricia Janak | associative learning and addiction | 2014 |
| Odis Johnson | social policy and STEM equity | 2021 |
| Yannís G. Kevrekidis | modeling and dynamic behavior of complex systems | 2017 |
| Daeyeol Lee | neuroeconomics | 2019 |
| Ellen MacKenzie | traumatic injury and rehabilitation health services | 2017 |
| Mauro Maggioni | data-intensive computation | 2016 |
| Kathryn McDonald | health systems, quality, and safety | 2020 |
| Stephen L. Morgan | sociology and education | 2014 |
| Ulrich Mueller | hearing loss and brain development | 2016 |
| Edward Pearce | immunobiology | 2020 |
| Eliana Perrin | primary care | 2021 |
| Erika Pearce | immunology and cellular metabolism | 2020 |
| Hanna Pickard | philosophy and bioethics | 2019 |
| Ian Phillips | philosophy, psychological and brain sciences | 2019 |
| Daniel Polsky | health economics | 2019 |
| Adam Riess | observational cosmology and dark energy | 2016 |
| Kathleen M. Sutcliffe | organizational theory and patient safety | 2014 |
| Steven Salzberg | computational biology and genomics | 2015 |
| Michael Schatz | computational biology and oncology | 2016 |
| Jeremy Shiffman | global health policy | 2018 |
| David Sing | exoplanetary physics | 2018 |
| Sabine Stanley | planetary physics | 2017 |
| Alex Szalay | big data | 2015 |
| Michael Tsapatsis | nanomaterials | 2018 |
| Vesla Weaver | racial politics and criminal justice | 2017 |
| Ashani Weeraratna | cancer biology | 2019 |
| Carl Wu | chromatin biology and biochemistry | 2016 |
| Alan Yuille | computational cognitive science | 2015 |

### Former Bloomberg Distinguished Professors

| Professor | Professorship research area | Years Active |
| - | - | - |
| Kathryn Edin | inequality and social policy | 2014 - 2018 |
| Carol W. Greider | molecular biology | 2014 - 2020 |
| Jessica Fanzo | global food and agriculture ethics and policy | 2015 - 2023 |
| Matthew Kahn | economics and business | 2019 - 2021 |
| Rong Li | cell dynamics | 2015 - 2022 |
| Nilabh Shastri | immunology and pathogenesis | 2018 - 2020 |

## Clusters

Advancing racial equity in health, housing, and education

Artificial intelligence and society

Climate, resilience, and health

Brain resilience across the lifespan

Hub for imaging and quantum technologies

Epigenome sciences

Preparing and responding to emerging pandemics

Knowledge to action and the business of health

