HHMI announces the inaugural Freeman Hrabowski Scholars cohort — 31 exceptional early career faculty who have potential to become leaders in their research fields and to create diverse and inclusive ...

Content of the introductory science experience, which embodies inclusive learning. Learning Community Cluster 1 will implement three coordinated projects: faculty training in the core values of equity ...

HHMI researchers devise prenatal blood test that accurately detects Down syndrome and two other serious chromosomal defects. Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers have developed a new prenatal ...

A powerful new technique combines expansion microscopy with lattice light-sheet microscopy for nanoscale imaging of fly and mouse neuronal circuits and their molecular constituents that’s roughly ...

Sixty-eight medical and veterinary students from 37 different schools across the country will participate in HHMI’s year-long Medical Research Fellows Program. Sixty-eight medical and veterinary ...

HHMI announces the selection of 25 exceptional early career scientists as 2022 Hanna Gray Fellows. The 2023 Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program competition is now open for applications. HHMI announces the ...

Planarians are a kind of flatworm capable of regenerating almost any part of their body—from head to tail—and doing it quickly. A planarian that loses its head can regrow a new one in a week, and an ...

The human body has an army of dedicated immune cells evolved to fight infection. But recent work suggests that skin cells, heart cells, neurons, and even single-celled bacteria – most cells, in fact – ...

HHMI researchers suggest that defective cell transport may play a role in Alzheimer’s disease. Over the last few years, scientists have been successful in identifying genes implicated in Alzheimer’s ...

An accomplished group, the 26 new HHMI investigators are at the forefront of discovery research. An accomplished group, the 26 new HHMI investigators are at the forefront of discovery research. The ...

Gilliam Fellows become part of a diverse and supportive community of scholars. During their tenure, they build bonds with peers at Gilliam annual meetings, increase their scientific knowledge, and ...

The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institutet announced this morning that the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Jack W. Szostak, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute ...