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169
National Academy of
Sciences members
(as of 5/7/2013)

21
Nobel Prize winners

  • Richard Axel
  • Bruce Beutler
  • Günter Blobel
  • Linda Buck
  • Mario R. Capecchi
  • Thomas R. Cech
  • Johann Deisenhofer
  • H. Robert Horvitz
  • Eric Kandel
  • Brian Kobilka
  • Hans Krebs
  • Robert J. Lefkowitz
  • Roderick MacKinnon
  • Craig C. Mello
  • Daniel Nathans
  • Stanley B. Prusiner
  • Thomas A. Steitz
  • Jack W. Szostak
  • Susumu Tonegawa
  • Roger Y. Tsien
  • Eric Wieschaus

71
Host institutions
(as of 1/31/13)

2,982 
HHMI employees
(as of 5/1/13)

$16.1 billion
Endowment
(close of FY 2012)

$695 million
Investment in
U.S. biomedical research
(close of FY 2012)

$78 million
Disbursements for science
education
(close of FY 2012)

54,420
Copies of DVD
“AIDS: Evolution of an Epidemic”
mailed (as of 7/1/13)

312
HHMI investigators
(as of 4/1/13)

45
HHMI Early Career Scientists
(as of 9/7/12)

14
HHMI-GBMF investigators
(as of 1/7/13)

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