Philanthropies Announce Faculty Scholar Awards | HHMI

Nineteen scientists affiliated with the MBL are among the 84 Faculty Scholars recently announced by The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), the Simons Foundation, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The Faculty Scholars are "early-career scientists who have great potential to make unique contributions to their field," the announcement states.

The philanthropies will spend about $83 million over five years to support this first cohort of Faculty Scholars. The range of five-year research grant award totals is $600,000-$1.8 million, including indirect costs. Read the HHMI press release here. The Faculty Scholars with an MBL affiliation (Whitman Center Scientist, course faculty or course alumni) are listed below:

Emily Balskus, Harvard University Alumna, Microbial Diversity course (2009) Diana Bautista, University of California, Berkeley Co-director and former faculty, Neurobiology course (2009-present) Edward Boyden, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alumnus, Neural Systems and Behavior course (2000) Faculty, Neural Systems and Behavior course (2011, 2013) Faculty, Brains, Minds, and Machines course (2014) Clifford Brangwynne, Princeton University Alumnus, Physiology course (2006) HHMI Summer Institute at MBL Flaminia Catteruccia, Harvard University Faculty, Biology of Parasitism course (2015, 2016) Daniel A. Colon-Ramos, Yale University Alumnus, Physiology course (2000) Faculty, Summer Program in Neuroscience, Excellence and Survival (2015) Faculty, Neural Systems and Behavior (2015, 2016) Ila Fiete, University of Texas at Austin Faculty, Methods in Computational Neuroscience course (2008-2016) Robert Froemke, New York University School of Medicine Alumnus, Neural Systems and Behavior course (2000) Alumnus, Methods in Computational Neuroscience course (2008) Antonio Giraldez, Yale University Whitman Center Scientist Amy Gladfelter, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Alumna, Physiology course (1998) Faculty, Physiology course (2016) HHMI Summer Institute at MBL Valentina Greco, Yale University Alumna, Biology of Aging course (2003) Elizabeth Haswell, Washington University in St. Louis Faculty, Physiology course (2015) Coleen Murphy, Princeton University Alumna, Physiology course (1995) Celeste Nelson, Princeton University Alumna, Embryology course (2007) Samara L. Reck-Peterson, University of California, San Diego Alumna, Physiology course (1994) Faculty, Physiology course (2008) Jody Rosenblatt, University of Utah Whitman Center Scientist Song-Hai Shi, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Alumnus, Methods in Computational Neuroscience course (2000) Jan Skotheim, Stanford University Alumnus, Analytical and Quantitative Light Microscopy course (2006) Meng Wang, Baylor College of Medicine Faculty, Biology of Aging course (2006, 2007, 2009) Source: Philanthropies Announce Selection of Faculty Scholars