The HHMI Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program supports postdoctoral scientists who show exceptional promise as future research leaders, equipping them to pursue bold and creative scientific research as they ...

Neuroscience has been chasing the same fundamental question for decades: How does a vertebrate brain produce the rich, flexible behavior of a living animal? Answering it both matters in its own right, ...

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The Howard Hughes Medical Institute is dedicated to promoting knowledge and advancing human health through discovery research in the basic biomedical sciences. HHMI’s guiding principle is to support ...

View the profile of Eric R. Kandel, MD, Investigator Emeriti at HHMI from Columbia University.

Frederick Alt wants to understand mechanisms that maintain genomic stability in mammalian cells. Alt and his team research programmed genetic recombination and hypermutation processes required for the ...

HHMI researchers have identified a neural circuit in the subfornical organ that regulates thirst in mice. Howard Hughes Medical Institute scientists have identified a circuit in the brains of mice ...

HHMI breaks ground for the Janelia Farm Research Campus in Ashburn, Virginia. The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) today officially broke ground for its Janelia Farm Research Campus that will be ...

Located outside Washington, DC, HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus was designed to take on scientific work that no university or industry laboratory could — work requiring capabilities, team scale, ...

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