2015 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Competition

2015 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Competition Howard Hughes Medical Institute is pleased to announce a national competition for the appointment of outstanding scientists as HHMI investigators. This competition will enable HHMI to strengthen its community of basic researchers and physician scientists who bring innovative approaches to the study of biological problems through biomedical disciplines, including plant biology, as well as adjacent fields of evolutionary biology, biophysics, chemical biology, biomedical engineering, and computational biology. From this competition, HHMI expects to appoint 20 to 25 new investigators who will be among the most creative and promising in the nation. HHMI investigators are expected to demonstrate a combination of the following attributes that distinguish them from other highly competent scientists in their field. • They identify and pursue significant biological questions in a rigorous and deep manner. • They push their chosen research field into new areas of inquiry, being consistently at its forefront. • They develop new tools and methods that enable creative experimental approaches to biological questions, bringing to bear, when necessary, concepts or techniques from other disciplines. • They forge links between basic biology and medicine. • They demonstrate great promise of future original and innovative contributions. This investigator competition places no res...
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