Researchers

HHMI Investigators

September 1, 2008–August 31, 2009

Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators conduct research in Institute laboratories at host institutions nationwide in concert with associated hospitals and medical schools.

For information on HHMI investigators active after August 31, 2009, visit www.hhmi.org.

Arizona

    • University of Arizona
    • Roy Parker, Ph.D.

California

    • California Institute of Technology
    • David J. Anderson, Ph.D.
    • Pamela J. Björkman, Ph.D.
    • David C. Chan, M.D., Ph.D.
    • Raymond J. Deshaies, Ph.D.
    • Michael B. Elowitz, Ph.D.
    • Linda C. Hsieh-Wilson, Ph.D.
    • Grant J. Jensen, Ph.D.
    • Douglas C. Rees, Ph.D.
    • Erin M. Schuman, Ph.D.
    • Paul W. Sternberg, Ph.D.
    • Salk Institute for Biological Studies
    • Joanne Chory, Ph.D.
    • Andrew Dillin, Ph.D.
    • Sascha du Lac, Ph.D.
    • Ronald M. Evans, Ph.D.
    • Joseph P. Noel, Ph.D.
    • Samuel L. Pfaff, Ph.D.
    • Terrence J. Sejnowski, Ph.D.
    • Stanford University
    • Philip A. Beachy, Ph.D.
    • Patrick O. Brown, M.D., Ph.D.
    • Axel T. Brunger, Ph.D.
    • Gerald R. Crabtree, M.D.
    • Mark M. Davis, Ph.D.
    • K. Christopher Garcia, Ph.D.
    • Seung K. Kim, M.D., Ph.D.
    • David M. Kingsley, Ph.D.
    • Mark A. Krasnow, M.D., Ph.D.
    • Liqun Luo, Ph.D.
    • Emmanuel Mignot, M.D., Ph.D.
    • William T. Newsome, Ph.D.
    • Roel Nusse, Ph.D.
    • Stephen R. Quake, D.Phil.
    • Mark J. Schnitzer, Ph.D.
    • Matthew P. Scott, Ph.D.
    • Kang Shen, Ph.D.
    • Thomas C. Südhof, M.D.
    • Julie A. Theriot, Ph.D.
    • University of California, Berkeley
    • Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Ph.D.
    • Carlos Bustamante, Ph.D.
    • Christopher J. Chang, Ph.D.
    • Yang Dan, Ph.D.
    • Abby F. Dernburg, Ph.D.
    • Jennifer A. Doudna, Ph.D.
    • Michael B. Eisen, Ph.D.
    • Jay T. Groves, Ph.D.
    • John Kuriyan, Ph.D.
    • Barbara J. Meyer, Ph.D.
    • Eva Nogales, Ph.D.
    • Nipam H. Patel, Ph.D.
    • Randy W. Schekman, Ph.D.
    • Robert Tjian, Ph.D.
    • University of California, Los Angeles
    • Douglas L. Black, Ph.D.
    • Edward M. De Robertis, M.D., Ph.D.
    • David Eisenberg, D.Phil.
    • Steven E. Jacobsen, Ph.D.
    • Peter Tontonoz, M.D., Ph.D.
    • Owen N. Witte, M.D.
    • S. Lawrence Zipursky, Ph.D.
    • University of California, San Diego
    • Steven F. Dowdy, Ph.D.
    • Susan Ferro-Novick, Ph.D.
    • Joseph G. Gleeson, M.D.
    • Lawrence S.B. Goldstein, Ph.D.
    • Yishi Jin, Ph.D.
    • Jamey D. Marth, Ph.D.
    • J. Andrew McCammon, Ph.D.
    • Michael G. Rosenfeld, M.D.
    • Massimo Scanziani, Ph.D.
    • Susan S. Taylor, Ph.D.
    • Roger Y. Tsien, Ph.D.
    • University of California, San Francisco
    • David A. Agard, Ph.D.
    • Jason G. Cyster, Ph.D.
    • Joseph L. DeRisi, Ph.D.
    • Donald Ganem, M.D.
    • Lily Y. Jan, Ph.D.
    • Yuh Nung Jan, Ph.D.
    • Wendell A. Lim, Ph.D.
    • Stephen G. Lisberger, Ph.D.
    • Richard M. Locksley, M.D.
    • Louis J. Ptáček, M.D.
    • David H. Rowitch, M.D., Ph.D.
    • Kevan M. Shokat, Ph.D.
    • Jack Taunton, Ph.D.
    • Ronald D. Vale, Ph.D.
    • Peter Walter, Ph.D.
    • Arthur Weiss, M.D., Ph.D.
    • Jonathan S. Weissman, Ph.D.
    • University of California, Santa Cruz
    • David Haussler, Ph.D.
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Colorado

    • Colorado State University
    • Karolin Luger, Ph.D.
    • National Jewish Health
    • John W. Kappler, Ph.D.
    • Philippa Marrack, Ph.D.
    • University of Colorado
    • Natalie G. Ahn, Ph.D.
    • Kristi S. Anseth, Ph.D.
    • Thomas R. Cech, Ph.D.
    • Min Han, Ph.D.
    • James L. Maller, Ph.D.
    • Lee A. Niswander, Ph.D.
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Connecticut

    • Yale University
    • Ronald R. Breaker, Ph.D.
    • Peter Cresswell, Ph.D.
    • Pietro De Camilli, M.D.
    • Erol Fikrig, M.D.
    • Richard A. Flavell, Ph.D.
    • Arthur L. Horwich, M.D.
    • Christine Jacobs-Wagner, Ph.D.
    • Richard P. Lifton, M.D., Ph.D.
    • Ruslan M. Medzhitov, Ph.D.
    • Anna Marie Pyle, Ph.D.
    • G. Shirleen Roeder, Ph.D.
    • David G. Schatz, Ph.D.
    • Gerald I. Shulman, M.D., Ph.D.
    • Joan A. Steitz, Ph.D.
    • Thomas A. Steitz, Ph.D.
    • Tian Xu, Ph.D.
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Georgia

    • Emory University
    • Kerry J. Ressler, M.D., Ph.D.
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Illinois

    • Northwestern University
    • Robert A. Lamb, Ph.D., Sc.D.
    • The University of Chicago
    • Albert Bendelac, M.D., Ph.D.
    • Bruce T. Lahn, Ph.D.
    • Milan Mrksich, Ph.D.
    • Joseph A. Piccirilli, Ph.D.
    • Jonathan K. Pritchard, Ph.D.
    • Harinder Singh, Ph.D.
    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    • Taekjip Ha, Ph.D.
    • Phillip A. Newmark, Ph.D.
    • Wilfred A. van der Donk, Ph.D.
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Indiana

    • Purdue University
    • Jue Chen, Ph.D.
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Iowa

    • The University of Iowa
    • Kevin P. Campbell, Ph.D.
    • Val C. Sheffield, M.D., Ph.D.
    • Edwin M. Stone, M.D., Ph.D.
    • Michael J. Welsh, M.D.
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Maine

    • The Jackson Laboratory
    • Susan L. Ackerman, Ph.D.
    • Simon W.M. John, Ph.D.
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Maryland

    • Carnegie Institution of Washington
    • Douglas E. Koshland, Ph.D.
    • Allan C. Spradling, Ph.D.
    • Yixian Zheng, Ph.D.
    • The Johns Hopkins University
    • Nancy L. Craig, Ph.D.
    • Harry C. Dietz, M.D.
    • David D. Ginty, Ph.D.
    • Rachel Green, Ph.D.
    • Richard L. Huganir, Ph.D.
    • Alex L. Kolodkin, Ph.D.
    • Jeremy Nathans, M.D., Ph.D.
    • Duojia Pan, Ph.D.
    • Geraldine Seydoux, Ph.D.
    • Robert F. Siliciano, M.D., Ph.D.
    • Bert Vogelstein, M.D.
    • Cynthia Wolberger, Ph.D.
    • University of Maryland, Baltimore
    • Christopher V. Plowe, M.D.
    • University of Maryland, Baltimore County
    • Michael F. Summers, Ph.D.
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Massachusetts

    • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
    • S. Ananth Karumanchi, M.D.
    • Christopher A. Walsh, M.D., Ph.D.
    • Boston University
    • James J. Collins, Ph.D.
    • Brandeis University
    • Nikolaus Grigorieff, Ph.D.
    • Dorothee Kern, Ph.D.
    • Christopher Miller, Ph.D.
    • Michael Rosbash, Ph.D.
    • Brigham and Women’s Hospital
    • Stephen J. Elledge, Ph.D.
    • D. Gary Gilliland, M.D., Ph.D.
    • Christine E. Seidman, M.D.
    • Matthew K. Waldor, M.D., Ph.D.
    • Children’s Hospital Boston
    • Frederick W. Alt, Ph.D.
    • David E. Clapham, M.D., Ph.D.
    • George Q. Daley, M.D., Ph.D.
    • Elizabeth C. Engle, M.D.
    • Louis M. Kunkel, Ph.D.
    • Stuart H. Orkin, M.D.
    • Matthew L. Warman, M.D.
    • Morris F. White, Ph.D.
    • Leonard I. Zon, M.D.
    • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
    • Todd R. Golub, M.D.
    • William G. Kaelin Jr., M.D.
    • David Pellman, M.D.
    • Harvard College, Faculty of Arts
      and Sciences
    • Randy L. Buckner, Ph.D.
    • Catherine Dulac, Ph.D.
    • David R. Liu, Ph.D.
    • Douglas A. Melton, Ph.D.
    • Erin K. O’Shea, Ph.D.
    • Stuart L. Schreiber, Ph.D.
    • Xiaowei Zhuang, Ph.D.
    • Harvard Medical School
    • Constance L. Cepko, Ph.D.
    • David P. Corey, Ph.D.
    • Stephen C. Harrison, Ph.D.
    • John H.R. Maunsell, Ph.D.
    • Danesh Moazed, Ph.D.
    • Norbert Perrimon, Ph.D.
    • Tom A. Rapoport, Ph.D.
    • Bernardo L. Sabatini, M.D., Ph.D.
    • Thomas Walz, Ph.D.
    • Massachusetts General Hospital
    • Daniel A. Haber, M.D., Ph.D.
    • Jeannie T. Lee, M.D., Ph.D.
    • Jack W. Szostak, Ph.D.
    • Bruce D. Walker, M.D.
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Angelika Amon, Ph.D.
    • Tania A. Baker, Ph.D.
    • David P. Bartel, Ph.D.
    • Mark F. Bear, Ph.D.
    • Stephen P. Bell, Ph.D.
    • Catherine L. Drennan, Ph.D.
    • H. Robert Horvitz, Ph.D.
    • Richard O. Hynes, Ph.D.
    • Darrell J. Irvine, Ph.D.
    • Tyler Jacks, Ph.D.
    • Susan L. Lindquist, Ph.D.
    • Dianne K. Newman, Ph.D.
    • David C. Page, M.D.
    • David M. Sabatini, M.D., Ph.D.
    • H. Sebastian Seung, Ph.D.
    • Morgan Sheng, M.B.B.S., Ph.D.
    • Susumu Tonegawa, Ph.D.
    • Li-Huei Tsai, Ph.D.
    • Tufts University
    • Andrew Camilli, Ph.D.
    • Ralph R. Isberg, Ph.D.
    • University of Massachusetts
    • Roger J. Davis, Ph.D.
    • Michael R. Green, M.D., Ph.D.
    • Craig C. Mello, Ph.D.
    • Melissa J. Moore, Ph.D.
    • Phillip D. Zamore, Ph.D.
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Michigan

    • University of Michigan
    • James C.A. Bardwell, Ph.D.
    • Arul M. Chinnaiyan, M.D., Ph.D.
    • David Ginsburg, M.D.
    • Friedhelm Hildebrandt, M.D.
    • Randal J. Kaufman, Ph.D.
    • Tom K. Kerppola, Ph.D.
    • John V. Moran, Ph.D.
    • Sean J. Morrison, Ph.D.
    • Mercedes Pascual, Ph.D.
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Minnesota

    • University of Minnesota
    • Michael B. O'Connor, Ph.D.
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Missouri

    • Stowers Institute for Medical Research
    • Olivier Pourquié, Ph.D.
    • Washington University in St. Louis
    • Daniel E. Goldberg, M.D., Ph.D.
    • Eduardo A. Groisman, Ph.D.
    • Kenneth M. Murphy, M.D., Ph.D.
    • Helen Piwnica-Worms, Ph.D.
    • Andrey S. Shaw, M.D.
    • Wayne M. Yokoyama, M.D.
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New Jersey

    • Princeton University
    • Bonnie L. Bassler, Ph.D.
    • Carlos D. Brody, Ph.D.
    • Leonid Kruglyak, Ph.D.
    • Trudi Schüpbach, Ph.D.
    • David L. Stern, Ph.D.
    • Eric F. Wieschaus, Ph.D.
    • Rutgers, The State University
      of New Jersey
    • Richard H. Ebright, Ph.D.
    • Kenneth D. Irvine, Ph.D.
    • University of Medicine and Dentistry
      of New Jersey
    • Ann M. Stock, Ph.D.
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New York

    • Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center
    • Paul D. Bieniasz, Ph.D.
    • Albert Einstein College of Medicine
      of Yeshiva University
    • William R. Jacobs Jr., Ph.D.
    • Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
    • Gregory J. Hannon, Ph.D.
    • Leemor Joshua-Tor, Ph.D.
    • Scott W. Lowe, Ph.D.
    • Columbia University
    • Richard Axel, M.D.
    • Joachim Frank, Ph.D.
    • Stephen P. Goff, Ph.D.
    • Iva Greenwald, Ph.D.
    • Wayne A. Hendrickson, Ph.D.
    • Oliver Hobert, Ph.D.
    • Barry Honig, Ph.D.
    • Thomas M. Jessell, Ph.D.
    • Eric R. Kandel, M.D.
    • Steven A. Siegelbaum, Ph.D.
    • Gary Struhl, Ph.D.
    • Rafael Yuste, M.D., Ph.D.
    • Charles S. Zuker, Ph.D.
    • Cornell University
    • Shahin Rafii, M.D.
    • Michelle D. Wang, Ph.D.
    • Memorial Sloan-Kettering
      Cancer Center
    • James P. Allison, Ph.D.
    • Jonathan Goldberg, Ph.D.
    • Scott Keeney, Ph.D.
    • Joan Massagué, Ph.D.
    • Nikola P. Pavletich, Ph.D.
    • Alexander Y. Rudensky, Ph.D.
    • Charles L. Sawyers, M.D.
    • New York University
    • Ruth Lehmann, Ph.D.
    • Dan R. Littman, M.D., Ph.D.
    • Michele Pagano, M.D.
    • Danny Reinberg, Ph.D.
    • Eero P. Simoncelli, Ph.D.
    • The Rockefeller University
    • Cornelia I. Bargmann, Ph.D.
    • Günter Blobel, M.D., Ph.D.
    • Robert B. Darnell, M.D., Ph.D.
    • Jeffrey M. Friedman, M.D., Ph.D.
    • Elaine Fuchs, Ph.D.
    • Nathaniel Heintz, Ph.D.
    • A. James Hudspeth, M.D., Ph.D.
    • Roderick MacKinnon, M.D.
    • Michel C. Nussenzweig, M.D., Ph.D.
    • Michael E. O’Donnell, Ph.D.
    • Hermann Steller, Ph.D.
    • Thomas Tuschl, Ph.D.
    • Leslie B. Vosshall, Ph.D.
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North Carolina

    • Duke University
    • Vann Bennett, M.D., Ph.D.
    • Michael D. Ehlers, M.D., Ph.D.
    • Erich D. Jarvis, Ph.D.
    • Robert J. Lefkowitz, M.D.
    • Paul L. Modrich, Ph.D.
    • John D. York, Ph.D.
    • University of North Carolina
      at Chapel Hill
    • Yi Zhang, Ph.D.
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Ohio

    • Case Western Reserve University
    • Sanford Markowitz, M.D., Ph.D.
    • Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
      Medical Center
    • Jeffery D. Molkentin, Ph.D.
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Oklahoma

    • Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
    • Charles T. Esmon, Ph.D.
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Oregon

    • Oregon Health and Science University
    • Brian J. Druker, M.D.
    • Eric Gouaux, Ph.D.
    • Gail Mandel, Ph.D.
    • Teresa Nicolson, Ph.D.
    • University of Oregon
    • Chris Q. Doe, Ph.D.
    • Brian W. Matthews, Ph.D., D.Sc.
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Pennsylvania

    • The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
    • Vivian G. Cheung, M.D.
    • Katherine A. High, M.D.
    • University of Pennsylvania
    • Nancy M. Bonini, Ph.D.
    • Gideon Dreyfuss, Ph.D.
    • Zhe Lu, M.D., Ph.D.
    • Amita Sehgal, Ph.D.
    • M. Celeste Simon, Ph.D.
    • Gregory D. Van Duyne, Ph.D.
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Tennessee

    • St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
    • Brenda A. Schulman, Ph.D.
    • Charles J. Sherr, M.D., Ph.D.
    • Vanderbilt University
    • Kathleen L. Gould, Ph.D.
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Texas

    • Baylor College of Medicine
    • Hugo J. Bellen, D.V.M., Ph.D.
    • Brendan Lee, M.D., Ph.D.
    • Huda Y. Zoghbi, M.D.
    • Texas A&M University
    • L. René García, Ph.D.
    • University of Texas at Austin
    • Tanya T. Paull, Ph.D.
    • University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
    • Zhijian “James” Chen, Ph.D.
    • Johann Deisenhofer, Ph.D.
    • Nick V. Grishin, Ph.D.
    • Helen H. Hobbs, M.D.
    • Lora V. Hooper, Ph.D.
    • Youxing Jiang, Ph.D.
    • Beth Levine, M.D.
    • David J. Mangelsdorf, Ph.D.
    • Michael K. Rosen, Ph.D.
    • Joseph S. Takahashi, Ph.D.
    • Xiaodong Wang, Ph.D.
    • Masashi Yanagisawa, M.D., Ph.D.
    • Hongtao Yu, Ph.D.
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Utah

    • University of Utah
    • Brenda L. Bass, Ph.D.
    • Bradley R. Cairns, Ph.D.
    • Mario R. Capecchi, Ph.D.
    • Erik M. Jorgensen, Ph.D.
    • Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado, Ph.D.
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Washington

    • Fred Hutchinson Cancer
      Research Center
    • Linda B. Buck, Ph.D.
    • Adrian R. Ferré-D’Amaré, Ph.D.
    • Steven Henikoff, Ph.D.
    • Cecilia B. Moens, Ph.D.
    • James R. Priess, Ph.D.
    • University of Washington
    • David Baker, Ph.D.
    • Michael J. Bevan, Ph.D.
    • Evan E. Eichler, Ph.D.
    • Stanley Fields, Ph.D.
    • Philip Green, Ph.D.
    • Randall T. Moon, Ph.D.
    • Richard D. Palmiter, Ph.D.
    • Fred Rieke, Ph.D.
    • John D. Scott, Ph.D.
    • Michael N. Shadlen, M.D., Ph.D.
    • William N. Zagotta, Ph.D.
    • Ning Zheng, Ph.D.
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Wisconsin

    • University of Wisconsin–Madison
    • Paul Ahlquist, Ph.D.
    • Sean B. Carroll, Ph.D.
    • Edwin R. Chapman, Ph.D.
    • Judith Kimble, Ph.D.
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Janelia Farm
Research Campus

September 1, 2008–August 31, 2009

  • Bruce S. Baker, Ph.D. Group Leader
  • Eric Betzig, Ph.D. Group Leader
  • Sydney Brenner, D.Phil. Senior Fellow
  • Dmitri B. Chklovskii, Ph.D. Group Leader
  • David A. Clayton, Ph.D. Laboratory Head
  • Winfried Denk, Ph.D. Senior Fellow
  • Joshua T. Dudman, Ph.D. Fellow
  • Sean R. Eddy, Ph.D. Group Leader
  • S.E. Roian Egnor, Ph.D. Fellow
  • Mats G.L. Gustafsson, Ph.D. Group Leader
  • Timothy D. Harris, Ph.D. Director, Applied Physics and Instrumentation Group
  • Harald F. Hess, Ph.D. Group Leader
  • Vivek Jayaraman, Ph.D. Fellow
  • Alla Y. Karpova, Ph.D. Group Leader
  • Rex A. Kerr, Ph.D. Fellow
  • Luke D. Lavis, Ph.D. Fellow
  • Albert Lee, Ph.D. Group Leader
  • Tzumin Lee, M.D., Ph.D. Group Leader
  • Anthony Leonardo, Ph.D. Group Leader
  • Loren L. Looger, Ph.D. Group Leader
  • Jeffrey C. Magee, Ph.D. Group Leader
  • Eugene W. Myers, Ph.D. Group Leader
  • Hanchuan Peng, Ph.D. Senior Computer Scientist
  • Michael B. Reiser, Ph.D. Fellow
  • Lynn M. Riddiford, Ph.D. Senior Fellow
  • Dmitry Rinberg, Ph.D. Fellow
  • Elena Rivas, Ph.D. Fellow
  • Louis K. Scheffer, Ph.D. Fellow
  • Charles V. Shank, Ph.D. Senior Fellow
  • Julie H. Simpson, Ph.D. Group Leader
  • Scott M. Sternson, Ph.D. Group Leader
  • Karel Svoboda, Ph.D. Group Leader
  • James W. Truman, Ph.D. Group Leader
  • Charles S. Zuker, Ph.D. Senior Fellow
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