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Grant from HHMI will support
graduate education in sciences

For the 13th consecutive year, the University has received funds from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) to support graduate medical education in the biological sciences.

This year's payment amounts to $700,000, and, as in the past, will be used to provide stipend support for students throughout the biological sciences at Yale.

HHMI, a medical research organization whose headquarters are in Maryland, regularly makes such payments to Yale and other academic institutions where its laboratories are based.

HHMI investigators are employees of the institute and also hold faculty appointments at their host institutions. Yale has one of the largest groups of HHMI investigators, including Professors Axel Brünger, Peter

Cresswell, Pietro DeCamilli, Jennifer Doudna, Susan Ferro-Novick, Richard Flavell, Sankar Ghosh, Arthur Horwich, Charles Janeway, Richard Lifton, Shirleen Roeder, David Schatz, Gerald Shulman, Paul Sigler, Joan Steitz, Thomas Steitz, Sandra Wolin and Tian Xu.

In addition to its support of graduate education, HHMI regularly provides funds to the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale. Among other uses, the most recent Hughes funds to the library ($198,000) will cover retrospective conversion of the library's holdings into ORBIS and assist in the acquisition of new electronic books, electronic journals and computer-assisted instruction programs.

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