Six ϲappAffiliates Receive HHMI Investigator Awards
The provide flexible research funding to scientists diving into tough questions across the fields of biology and medicine.
Six of the 33 recently named are members of the MBL’s research, education and alumni communities. Each investigator will receive roughly $9 million over a seven-year term. Winners were selected from more than 800 eligible applicants.
“HHMI is committed to giving outstanding biomedical scientists the time, resources, and freedom they need to explore uncharted scientific territory,” HHMI President Erin O’Shea said in . “By employing scientists as HHMI Investigators, rather than awarding them research grants, she says, the Institute is guided by the principle of “people, not projects.”
Congratulations to the new HHMI Investigators in the ϲappcommunity:
, Harvard University
Alumna, Microbial Diversity (2009)
, University of California, Berkeley
Course Director, Neurobiology (2018-2019, 2021)
Course Faculty, Neurobiology (2009-2016)
, Harvard University
Course Director, Biology of Parasitism (2018, 2019, 2021)
Course Faculty, Biology of Parasitism (2015-2017)
, Harvard University
Course Faculty, Physiology (2017)
Course Faculty, Embryology (2007 - 2009)
Alumna, Embryology (2002)
, The Rockefeller University
Course Faculty, Neurobiology (2016)
Alumnus, Neurobiology (2000)
, University of California, San Diego
Alumna, Physiology (2007)