Biomedical Research

The messenger RNA (mRNA)-based vaccines developed to fight the virus SARS-CoV-2 saved lives and made the nucleic acid a household name during the COVI...

In 1981, Bruce Walker was a recent medical school graduate and a resident at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, eager to start a career seeing...

“I was an MD-PhD student at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the early 1980s when the first articles were published describing this...

In 2007, Bruce Walker was five years into his first term as an HHMI Investigator and was growing increasingly involved in collaborative HIV research i...

Jeannette Tenthorey was deep into her studies of infectious diseases before HIV even occurred to her as a potential subject. Born in 1986, Tenthorey c...

When Christopher Barnes began his postdoctoral studies with Pamela Bjorkman at the California Institute of Technology in 2017, the HIV field was decad...

Witness to a Pandemic Bruce D. Walker, an HHMI Investigator since 2002, had been a practicing physician in the earliest days of the AIDS epidemic, bef...

HHMI Investigator Nels Elde and his lab at the University of Utah work at the crossroads of evolutionary genetics and cell biology to study one of the...

The cohort includes early career scientists working in research areas ranging from treatment-resistant cancers to how animals evolved to live on land....

Professor Edith Heard, Director General of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, has been elected a Trustee of the Howard Hughes Medical Institut...