was among the 175 Fellows inducted into the National Academy of Inventors on April 6 in Boston. A researcher with the James Graham Brown Cancer Center, Bates is both UofL鈥檚 and Kentucky鈥檚 fourth NAI Fellow.

Shown with her are NAI听President Paul R. Sanberg, PhD, DSc, left, and Andrew H. Hirschfeld, Commissioner for Patents for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.听