UCLA science profs awarded $1 million Howard Hughes Medical Institute grants
Two UCLA professors are among 20 professors nationally to be awarded $1 million grants by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) to creatively improve undergraduate science teaching....... UCLA's new "HHMI Professors" are Utpal Banerjee and Robert B. Goldberg, both professors in the Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology....... UCLA is the only university in the United States...Howard Hughes Medical Institute's million dollar professors
What would you do with a million dollars? Twenty scientists at research universities across the nation have 20 different answers. They all share a goal, however: to make science more engaging for undergraduates. The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) today announced their appointment as its first HHMI Professors. Each is a leading researcher who will receive $1 million over the next four year...Washington University receives $2.2 million funding from Howard Hughes Medical Institute
St. Louis, July 9, 2002 Washington University in St. Louis is the recipient of a grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) intended to enhance undergraduate biology education, graduate teaching skills and the incorporation of emerging scientific disciplines into undergraduate biology education....... Undergraduate biology education is in the midst of a revolution, and 44 research u...Howard Hughes Medical Institute awards $80 million for undergraduate science education
Undergraduate biology education is in the midst of a revolution, and 44 research universities will receive $80 million from Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) to help them address the challenges of a rapidly changing and increasingly interdisciplinary science. The grants will support programs that encourage graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to hone their teaching skills. Other progra...Gene therapy researcher selected as Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator
Philadelphia, Pa. Katherine A. High, M.D., director of hematology research at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, has been named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator. Dr. High is one of 12 physician-scientists recently selected by the prestigious research organization for major accomplishments in patient-oriented research....... "We are extremely pleased and proud of the fa...EMBO gets US$ 2 million from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to support young scientists
"We are delighted that the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) will help EMBO to support young scientists from these countries. We are positive that this will boost the status of up-and-coming scientists in Central Europe," said Frank Gannon, Executive Director of EMBO.... ...The EMBO Young Investigator Programme promotes Europe's most promising young researchers in the life sciences. The prog.... Teenagers tend to have a harder time functioning in the morning than their parents do. Long flights can cause jet lag. Both phenomena are related to "biological clocks," molecular mechanisms that regulate how humans and other organisms sleep, wake and function throughout a 24-hour day. And if "the early bird gets the worm," it's because birds also have a built-in clock that helps them to rise....CHEVY CHASE, Md., July 6, 2000-Fifty-three colleges and universities in 22 states and Puerto Rico will receive $50.3 million in awards for undergraduate biological sciences education. The four-year grants come from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), the nation's largest private supporter of science education from elementary school through postdoctoral studies. . .Ranging from $700,000...Warman named to Hughes Institute
. CLEVELAND -- The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has selected a faculty member at Case Western Reserve University's School of Medicine as a Hughes assistant investigator. Matthew Warman is one of 48 scientists chosen in a national competition by HHMI and is the only Ohio researcher among the group. HHMI is one of the nation's largest medical research and philanthropic organizations.. . ...Five Seattle scientists selected as Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators
.Five Seattle researchers -- three from the University of Washington and two from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center -- have been selected as Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators. This is the first time there have been so many winners in the Seattle area. This also represents one of the highest concentrations of winners in the nation. .Drs. David Baker, Philip Green and Michael....NEW YORK, NY, January 19, 2000 -- Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (P&S) has been awarded $2.4 million from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The grant will enable Columbia to find new ways to combine basic biomedical research with clinical treatment of patients by augmenting its efforts in systems biology. The award will allow Columbia to hire new assistant professor...CWRU med school snares $3 million Howard Hughes Institute grant to build structural biology program
. . . One of the nation's largest philanthropies and a leading supporter of medical research has awarded Case Western Reserve University's School of Medicine a $3 million, four-year grant to boost its recruitment efforts for new research faculty.. The grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), located in Chevy Chase, Maryland, will allow the medical school to support a major initiat.... The University of Chicago Biological Sciences Division has been awarded $2.4 million from the.Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Resource Program to support and expand programs in immunology.and structural biology.. . "The Howard Hughes Medical Institute continues to play a criticial role in developing and.supporting research both at our institution and across the country," said Glenn D....Howard Hughes Medical Institute funds biomedical facilities at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
. The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), a philanthropy that is one of the world's leading.biomedical research organizations, will spend $8.05 million for the construction and operation of two.new "superbend" beamlines at the Advanced Light Source (ALS) of the U.S. Department of Energy's.Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). The beamlines will generate the high-energy or."h...Howard Hughes Medical Institute awards $92 million in research support to U.S. medical schools
. CHEVY CHASE, MD, December 15, 1999 - Forty-one medical schools in 23 states will receive a total of $92 million over the next four years from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). Ranging from $1.6 million to $4 million, the awards will help the schools find new ways to combine basic biomedical research and clinical treatment of patients. They also will support programs in the rapidly d...