HHMI - Howard Hughes Medical Institue

HHMI announces the selection of 15 exceptional early career scientists as 2018 HHMI Hanna Gray Fellows to support diversity in science. The 2019 Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program competition is now open, with applications due on January 9, 2019.

Lasker Award honors leadership in RNA biology and in scientific mentorship.

In a Nature Comment piece, HHMI leadership, with colleagues at ASAPbio and the Wellcome Trust, call on journals to sign a pledge to make reviewers’ anonymous comments part of the official scientific record.

Epithelial cells grown on a plastic dish are worse at segregating their chromosomes than epithelial cells growing in mice, a new study shows. The results may help explain why chromosomes go awry in cancer.

Discoveries by two HHMI investigators show how proteins that organize into liquid droplets inside cells make certain biological functions possible.

HHMI announces the selection of 15 exceptional early career scientists as 2018 HHMI Hanna Gray Fellows to support diversity in science. The 2019 Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program competition is now open, with applications due on January 9, 2019.

HHMI has awarded grants to 45 doctoral student-adviser pairs to support the development of their scientific leadership and commitment to advance diversity and inclusion in the sciences.

Scientists at HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus have taken detailed pictures of the entire brain of an adult female fruit fly using transmission electron microscopy.

With grants to 33 colleges and universities, HHMI is catalyzing efforts to improve the inclusion of students from diverse backgrounds in science education.

A weakened version of the bacteria that causes cholera provides quick protection to rabbits. The vaccine may one day stop outbreaks of the deadly intestinal disease.

HHMI has awarded grants to 45 doctoral student-adviser pairs to support the development of their scientific leadership and commitment to advance diversity and inclusion in the sciences.

Three brain development genes are found only in humans and may have helped drive the rapid expansion of the brain starting roughly three million years ago.

HHMI invests $200 million in a small cadre of leading scientists, challenging them to push the limits of what we know about biology.

Sixty-six exceptional medical and veterinary students are embarking on a year of research with support from HHMI.

Merging lattice light sheet microscopy with adaptive optics reveals the most detailed picture yet of subcellular dynamics in multicellular organisms.

The crystal structure of a G protein commonly mutated in pituitary tumors could help researchers develop anti-cancer drugs.