Rice Professors Receive Lemelson-MIT Award for Global Innovation
May 01, 2013
Two bioengineering professors at Rice University have been named recipients of the 2013 $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Global Innovation. Rebecca Richards-Kortum, an HHMI program director at Rice, and an HHMI Professor, and her colleague, Maria Oden, are being honored for mentoring a new generation of inventors in developing life-saving health technologies for the world¹s poorest communities. More

HHMI Scientists Elected to National Academy of Sciences
April 30, 2013
Seven Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigators, two HHMI-Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation investigators, two senior fellows at HHMI’s Janelia Farm Research Campus, three HHMI professors, and two members of the HHMI Scientific Review Board (SRB) have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. More

Scientists Make Insulin-Producing Cells Self-Replicate
April 25, 2013
Scientists have discovered a hormone that causes the body’s insulin-producing factories, beta cells, to churn out more of themselves. More

Finding a New Way to Manage Infections
April 25, 2013
Waging an immunological war against a pathogen is not the body’s only way to survive an infection. Sometimes learning to live with an invader can be just as important. More

Sean Eddy to Deliver Public Talk at Janelia Farm Research Campus
April 23, 2013
Eddy will speak about "The Language of DNA" on May 22 in an event open to the public. More

HHMI Announces $65 Million in Grants for Research Universities
April 16, 2013
HHMI has invited 203 research universities to apply for new science education grants aimed at helping improve persistence of students studying STEM disciplines and reinvigorating introductory science courses. More

Seeing the Brain’s Circuits with a New Clarity
April 10, 2013
A new technique transforms biological tissue into an optically transparent sample that retains its original structure and molecular information. More

Elledge Named Recipient of 2013 Gairdner Award
March 22, 2013
Stephen Elledge recognized for research on DNA repair. More

Wnt Signal Regulates the Geometry of Dividing Stem Cells
March 21, 2013
New research reveals how a localized source of a signaling molecule directs a dividing stem cell to produce two different cells—one identical to its parent, the other a more specialized cell type—and aligns those cells. More

HHMI Initiative Will Help Train New Generation of Science and Math Teachers
March 18, 2013
At a briefing at the White House, HHMI announces $22.5 million, five-year grant to help major research universities train a new generation of science and mathematics teachers. More