The Howard Hughes Medical Institute has selected 45 doctoral students and their advisers to advance diversity and inclusion in the sciences. The Howard Hughes Medical Institute has selected 45 ...

Fruit fly eyes have a different structure than ours do, but they serve similar functions: to detect light from the environment and send that information to the brain. The part of the fly’s brain that ...

2023 Freeman Hrabowski Scholars Ishmail Abdus-Saboor, PhD Columbia University Ishmail Abdus-Saboor is interested in the skin-brain axis for tactile sensations. He wants to understand how the brain ...

This policy applies to consulting that involves giving a talk to company employees or participating in a one- or two-day conference or seminar convened by a company. This policy describes the special ...

Content of the introductory science experience, which embodies inclusive learning. Learning Community Cluster 1 will implement three coordinated projects: faculty training in the core values of equity ...

Together, we’re unlocking the fundamentals of biology and building an open, inclusive future for science. Learn more about how we’re moving science forward. HHMI hires individuals from all backgrounds ...

The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institutet announced this morning that the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Jack W. Szostak, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute ...

HHMI researchers suggest that defective cell transport may play a role in Alzheimer’s disease. Over the last few years, scientists have been successful in identifying genes implicated in Alzheimer’s ...

HHMI researchers devise prenatal blood test that accurately detects Down syndrome and two other serious chromosomal defects. Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers have developed a new prenatal ...

Gilliam Fellows become part of a diverse and supportive community of scholars. During their tenure, they build bonds with peers at Gilliam annual meetings, increase their scientific knowledge, and ...

What am I looking at? These are cells derived from monkey kidney tissue, growing in culture. They were filmed at a very slow frame rate overnight, and you are seeing the video played back here at a ...

Sixty-six medical and veterinary students from 34 schools across the nation will spend a full year of mentored biomedical research training as fellows in HHMI’s Medical Research Fellows Program. Sixty ...