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  161
National Academy of
Sciences members
(as of 5/4/2012)


14
Nobel Prize winners
Richard Axel
Günter Blobel
Linda Buck
Mario R. Capecchi
Thomas R. Cech
H. Robert Horvitz
Eric Kandel
Roderick MacKinnon
Craig C. Mello
Thomas A. Steitz
Jack W. Szostak
Roger Y. Tsien
Eric Wieschaus

5
Nobel Prize winners
formerly at HHMI

Johann Deisenhofer
Edwin G. Krebs
Daniel Nathans
Stanley B. Prusiner
Susumu Tonegawa

316
HHMI investigators
(as of 11/1/12)


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


13
HHMI-GBMF investigators
(as of 9/7/12)


72
Host institutions
(as of 6/20/12)


3,038
HHMI employees
(as of 11/1/10)


$905 million
Disbursements
(FY 2011)


$16.1 billion
Endowment
(close of FY 2011)


$825 million
Investment in
biomedical research
(close of FY 2011)


$80 million
Grants for science
education and
international science
(close of FY 2011)


43,935
Copies of DVD
“AIDS: Evolution of an Epidemic”
mailed (as of 6/20/12)



Janelia Farm:

689-acre campus

Opened in October 2006

More than 300 research staff

Extensive support: 12 shared resource labs and scientific computing

53 resident lab heads

Visiting Scientists
Program: More than 100 current and former participants

Conferences:
12 in 2007, 14 in 2008,
13 in 2009, 13 in 2010, 12 in 2011, 13 in 2012

3 training programs:
Postdoctoral, Graduate (17 students as of fall 2012), Undergraduate Summer Scholars (4 in 2007, 14 in 2008, 16 in 2009, 16 in 2010, 15 in 2011, 14 in 2012)

Executive Director:
Gerald M. Rubin, HHMI
Vice President and
Executive Director,
Janelia Farm

Location: Ashburn,
Virginia

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Janelia Farm


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