In December 2016, HHMI Investigator Dr. Huda Zoghbi received the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences “for discoveries of the genetic causes and biochemical mechanisms of spinocerebellar ataxia and Rett syndrome, findings that have provided insight […]

Dr. Cori Bargmann. Photo credit John Abbott / The Rockefeller University. As president for science at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, neuroscientist Dr. Cori Bargmann will oversee a multi-billion dollar research effort aiming to “cure, prevent or […]

Image credit: Scanning electron micrograph of a human T Cell from the immune system of a healthy donor. Credit: NIAID. Assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and former JCC Fellow Jun Huh was recently […]

As a graduate student and a postdoctoral fellow, Melissa Hunter-Ensor says she was a “happy lab rat.” She worked 12-hour days and went into the lab on the weekends, tending fruit flies, running Western blots, […]

Caption: Against a background of nematode worms, this graphic depicts the stressed mitochondria (lower right, blue and red) accumulating lipid droplets (red balls) in the interior or cytosol of the cell. The molecular structure of the […]