Science Alumni of Note
Holy Cross has an outstanding reputation for preparing students to become leaders in research and medicine. Notable achievements of science alumni are highlighted below:
James J. Collins, Ph.D. ’87
A MacArthur “genius” awardee (2003) for research on the control of gene networks in living cells, and included in the 2005 Scientific American list of Top 50 Science and Technology Leaders
Anthony Fauci, M.D. ’62
Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, leading the battles against HIV/AIDS; was honored with the 2008 Presidential Medal of Freedom
Jane Hawkins, Ph.D. ’76
Former Chair of the American Mathematical Society Committee on Science Policy; Professor of Mathematics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Joyce O’Shaughnessy, M.D. ’78
Director, Chemoprevention Research and Co-Director, Breast Cancer Research for US Oncology
Justin Parella ’06
Ph.D. candidate, Harvard University’s Division of Engineering and Applied Science; recipient of the prestigious Graduate Research Fellowing from the National Science Foundation
Edward Ludwig ’73
CEO and Chairman, Becton Dickinson Corporation, one the world’s leaders in medical technology
Richard A. Murphy, Ph.D. '66
Retired from the Salk Institute in July 2007, and is now the interim president of the CA Institute of Regenerative Medicine
Joseph E. Murray, M.D. ’40
Completed the world’s first successful human kidney transplantation in 1954; awarded Nobel Prize in 1990
James Shannon, M.D. ’25
First Director of the National Institutes of Health