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HHMI has awarded fellowships to 28 physicians to do postdoctoral training that combines clinical medicine with laboratory research.
HHMI has awarded fellowships to 28 physicians to do postdoctoral training that combines clinical medicine with laboratory research.


The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has awarded postdoctoral fellowships to 28 physicians who want to combine clinical medicine with laboratory research. The fellowships provide support for three years of postdoctoral study in basic science laboratories. HHMI physician postdoctoral fellows are preparing for careers as physician scientists. The goal of the program is to enable the fellows to cross traditional boundaries between clinical medicine and basic biomedical research and develop new approaches to the treatment and prevention of disease. This year’s postdoctoral fellows include 24 physicians from the United States and four from other countries (Greece, Belgium, Germany and Iran). The postdoctoral fellowship program currently supports 69 physicians at an annual cost of approximately $6.5 million. There are three HHMI graduate fellowship programs. The others award fellowships for research training of medical students and for predoctoral study in the biological sciences. New fellowship recipients are:

Cell and Developmental Biology

Ben Z. Stanger, M.D., Ph.D.

Harvard University

Sally J. York, M.D., Ph.D.

Duke University

 

 

Genetics and Molecular Biology

Bradley E. Bernstein, M.D., Ph.D.

Harvard University

Sean P. Bohen, M.D., Ph.D.

Stanford University

Matthew L. Freedman, M.D.

Massachusetts General Hospital

Andrei Goga, M.D., Ph.D.

University of California, San Francisco

Siavash K. Kurdistani, M.D.

University of California, Los Angeles

Arya Mani, M.D.

Yale University

Vamsi K. Mootha, M.D.

Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research

Paul I. Moskowitz, M.D.

Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Koenraad K. Norga, M.D..

Baylor College of Medicine

Muneesh Tewari, M.D., Ph.D.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

 

 

Immunology and Microbiology

Hearn J. Cho, M.D., Ph.D.

The Rockefeller University

Sarah M. Fortune, M.D.

Harvard University

Deborah T. Hung, M.D., Ph.D.

Massachusetts General Hospital

Birgit Kovacs, M.D.

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

George Y. Liu, M.D., Ph.D.

University of California, San Diego

Suzanne M. Noble, M.D., Ph.D.

University of California, San Francisco

Michael E. Ohl, M.D.

University of Washington

Scott J. Rodig, M.D., Ph.D.

Brigham and Women’s Hospital

 

 

Neuroscience and Physiology

Jay A. Gottfried, M.D., Ph.D.

University of London, University College London

Gary E. Hsich, M.D.

Massachusetts General Hospital

Paul T. Kotzbauer, M.D., Ph.D.

University of Pennsylvania

Laura B. Rosen, M.D., Ph.D.

Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Stelios M. Smirnakis, M.D., Ph.D.

Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany

Konstantina M. Stankovic, M.D., Ph.D.

Children’s Hospital-Boston

Susan M. Voglmaier, M.D., Ph.D.

University of California, San Francisco

 

 

Structural Biology and Biochemistry

Kwan-Hong C. Min, M.D., Ph.D.

Columbia University