HHMI Selects 27 of the Nation’s Top Biomedical Scientists

Rice Professors Receive Lemelson-MIT Award for Global Innovation

HHMI Scientists Elected to National Academy of Sciences

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA

Sangeeta Bhatia uses micro- and nanotechnologies to advance the fields of tissue engineering and repair. Her focus is on how these novel technologies can be used to detect and cure liver problems, including drug-induced liver failure, cancer, and hepatitis C. More

Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center
New York, NY

Paul Bieniasz explores the mechanisms underlying virus-host interactions, focusing on how HIV replicates in human cells. His research advances knowledge of the molecular interplay between viruses and their hosts as well their coevolution. More

Princeton University
Princeton, NJ

Carlos Brody studies the neural mechanisms of decision making by fusing computational modeling with experimental neuroscience.
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California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA

David Chan studies how the dynamic fission and fusion of mitochondria within a cell are controlled, how they affect a cell's physiology, and how they play a role in human disease. More

University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA

Christopher Chang develops novel small molecules to probe the roles of metals in normal brain functioning as well as in health, aging, and neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. More

Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN

Jue Chen studies the structure of proteins that use energy to transport solutes-necessary nutrients as well as unwanted toxins-across cell membranes. Determining how such transporters work will aid in understanding human diseases including cystic fibrosis and cancers. More

Boston University
Boston, MA

James Collins combines expertise in engineering, physics, and biology to design and build synthetic gene networks for applications in biotechnology and medicine and to reverse engineer the endogenous gene networks in bacteria that regulate their responses to antibiotics. More

University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA

Yang Dan studies how visual information is interpreted and stored by the mammalian brain and how these mechanisms are linked to learning and memory. More

University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA

Abby Dernburg researches the molecular mechanisms underlying chromosome organization and dynamics during meiosis. More

Salk Institute for Biological Studies
La Jolla, CA

Andrew Dillin investigates the molecular pathways of aging. In particular, he focuses on how protein folding and conformations play a role in the aging process of cells and organisms and how diet can affect that link. More

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HHMI Selects 56 of the Nation's Top Scientists
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