HHMI, NIBIB/NIH to invest up to $35 million in interdisciplinary Ph.D. programs
As biomedical science becomes more interdisciplinary, research progress will depend on contributions from life scientists who are familiar with the tools and ideas of the physical and computational sciences and engineering. The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) and the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are joining f...Vanderbilt students take HHMI fellowships
Two Vanderbilt University School of Medicine students will be taking a year off from school and delving into research with the help of Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Research Training Fellowships. ... ...Second-year student James Peacock will be engaged in immunology research at Columbia University, and third-year student Olga Weinberg will spend next year at UCLA studying estrogen recept...HHMI commits more than $30 million to help reverse brain drain, beat infectious diseases
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) is stepping up its commitment to fostering international biomedical research with two new competitions for more than $30 million in research grants to biomedical scientists outside the United States. Both competitions are aimed at promising researchers whose careers are still developing and who are the most likely targets of enticing job offers in more e...HHMI international programs build science capacity in developing countries
At the United Nations on February 5, scientists from around the world proposed steps to strengthen science and technology in developing countries. Among the recommendations from the InterAcademy Council (IAC), an international group of science academies including the U.S. National Academy of Sciences: ... ... ... ... ... ... Devise novel funding mechanis...HHMI renews postgraduate education support
New grants totaling nearly $3.5 million will continue Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) support for postgraduate education at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) and the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL). The four-year grants include $1.32 million to CSHL and $2.2 million to MBL....... At CSHL, the award will support 10 laboratory and 5 lecture courses, including new courses on stem cells,...HHMI selects new clinical investigators
CHEVY CHASE, MD, May 28, 2002--The Howard Hughes Medical Institute has selected 12 of the nations top physician-scientists to be appointed as HHMI investigators in an innovative program to improve the translation of basic science discoveries into enhanced treatments for patients.... ... They will join 324 HHMI investigators across the United States, a group whose recent honors include the Nationa...HHMI awards $2 million to European Molecular Biology Organization
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has awarded $2 million to the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) to help launch the careers of young scientists in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland....... ). The HHMI/EMBO Scientists will receive 30,000 Euros (approximately $26,450) a year for four years and...HHMI awards $16.25 million to biomedical researchers from Canada and Latin America
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute announced today that it has awarded $16.25 million in new grants to 43 outstanding biomedical researchers in Canada and five Latin American countries. ...... The five-year grants support the research of scientists in fields such as genetics, epidemiology, virology and neuroscience. These scientists are investigating a wide variety of biomedical topics, includ...CHEVY CHASE, Md. - The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has issued a challenge to science professors across the United States: Show the same ingenuity in your undergraduate teaching that you do in your scientific research. ...HHMI announced that it plans to award $1 million each to 20 research scientists on the basis of their plans to transmit the excitement and values of scientific resear...HHMI awards $15 million to scientists outside United States
.CHEVY CHASE, Md, July 26, 2000 -- The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has awarded $15 million in grants to help scientists outside the United States develop new approaches to overcoming malaria, tuberculosis, Chagas disease, Lassa fever, amebiasis and other infectious and parasitic diseases. . ."These diseases cause great suffering around the world, particularly in developing countri...Biomedical scientists from Russia to Rio to explore biology's frontiers at HHMI in June
. Scientists who work in a Russian science city, the Amazon jungle, Canadian hospitals and other settings around the world, will gather in Maryland on June 20-23 to discuss their research on topics ranging from the genetic origins of cancer to the molecular bases of parasitic diseases. . . The biomedical scientists from 16 countries are all International Research Scholars of the Howard Hughes Me...HHMI announces selection of 48 new investigators
. The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) today announced the names of 48 scientists who have been selected in a national competition to be appointed as HHMI investigators. The scientists, from 31 institutions, were selected as assistant investigators or in the emerging field of computational biology.. They will join 305 HHMI investigators across the United States, a group whose honors last y....The Howard Hughes Medical Institute.(HHMI) will award $16.25 million in new grants to support the research of.biomedical scientists in Canada and five Latin American countries --.Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Venezuela.. .The five-year initiative will support the research of outstanding scientists.in fields such as genetics, epidemiology, bioinformatics, virology and.neuroscience. The gr...HHMI awards grant to National Research Council for new study
..CHEVY CHASE, Md., February 10, 2000 -- What kind of education, training and experience do undergraduates need today if they are to become successful research biologists in the future? That's the question that the National Research Council will examine in a new study that has received $100,000 in support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI).. . The National Research Council -- the op.... .CHEVY CHASE, Md., May 5, 1999—The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI).today announced plans to award $14 million in grants through a new international.initiative to help scientists devise new approaches for combating infectious and.parasitic diseases that have a worldwide impact, particularly in developing.countries.. . . The five-year program will support approximately 40 outs...UD Education News: HHMI Award Supports Undergraduate Discovery
.At 21, Brooke Heidenfelder of Doylestown, Pa., is still an undergraduate at the.University of Delaware, but she has pursued graduate-level research for the past.four summers. Supervised by UD's Don Dennis, a professor of chemistry and.biochemistry, she's investigating an enzyme from the human immunodeficiency.virus (HIV) that triggers key replication reactions. .Last year, Heidenfelder's resea...