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 |
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Ben Z. Stanger, M.D., Ph.D. |
Harvard University |
Sally J. York, M.D., Ph.D. |
Duke University |
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Genetics and Molecular Biology |
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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 |
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Immunology and Microbiology |
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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 |
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Neuroscience and Physiology |
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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 |
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Structural Biology and Biochemistry |
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Kwan-Hong C. Min, M.D., Ph.D. |
Columbia University |
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