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The Association of American Physicians (AAP) is an honorary medical society founded in 1885 by the Canadian physician Sir William Osler and six other distinguished physicians of his era for “the advancement of scientific and practical medicine.” Election to the AAP is an honor extended to physicians with outstanding credentials in basic or translational biomedical research and is limited to 70 persons per year. The AAP includes over 1800 active members and 750 emeritus and honorary members. The great majority are US citizens. However, other countries are also represented. The overarching goals of the AAP include the promotion of professional and social interaction among biomedical scientists, the dissemination of important information related to biomedical science and teaching, the recognition of outstanding, diverse physician-scientists through membership, and the establishment of role models to kindle new generations of high achievers in medicine and medical science. The AAP annually honors selected scientists with the George M. Kober Medal for outstanding contributions to medicine or medical science. In addition, the George M. Kober Lectureship is given every third year by an outstanding physician-scientist selected by the AAP Council. The AAP held its first meeting in 1886. Some of the most important advances in biomedical science were first reported at annual AAP meetings. These included the discovery of insulin by Banting and Macleod in 1922, and the discovery, by Minot and Murphy in 1926, that pernicious anemia could be treated by feeding patients extracts of raw liver. Members of AAP have included many Nobel laureates, dozens of Lasker Award recipients, more than 300 members of the US National Academy of Sciences and more than 400 members of the US National Academy of Medicine. Living members of the AAP who have also been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine include Peter Agre, Harvey Alter, Michael S. Brown, Aaron Ciechanover, Joseph L. Goldstein, William G. Kaelin, Jr, Robert J. Lefkowitz, Barry J. Marshall, Stanley B. Prusiner, Peter Ratcliffe, Gregg L. Semenza and Drew Weissman. Members of AAP who have received a Lasker Award since 2000 include Harvey Alter, Aaron Ciechanover, Max Cooper, Brian Druker, Anthony Fauci, Marc Feldmann, Jeffrey M. Friedman, William Kaelin, Yuk Ming Lo, Douglas Lowy, Peter Ratcliffe, Charles Sawyers, Belding Scribner, Gregg Semenza, David Weatherall, and Drew Weissman.