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...Some researchers think the solution is to avoid involving androgen receptors altogether. But Charles Sawyers, a cancer researcher at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), isn't convinced - and he has an alternative. In the new Science paper, co-authored by Sawyers and other researchers at HHMI, the University of California, Los Angeles, and a host of other institutions, data suggest that a new chemical compound may sidestep the problem of resistance. When used to treat mouse tumors that were derived from drug-resistant prostate-cancer cells, the compound led to dramatic shrinkage, which has researchers hoping for a similar...
...according to a news release on the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Web site. Unveiled in March of 2008, the Early Career initiative’s purpose is to help young scientists concentrate on their research by removing concerns about funding. “We saw a tremendous opportunity for HHMI to impact the research community by freeing promising scientists to pursue their best ideas during this early stage of their careers,” said Howard Hughes Medical Institute President Thomas R. Cech in the news release. Each of the recipients, drawn from 33 institutions across the country, have...
...press conference on Tuesday, Melton, who is also an HHMI investigator, likened the identity-change process to a journalist going directly to law school instead of starting over as a kindergartner in order to become a lawyer...
Cech had no suits when he came to HHMI, and now owns only two, jokes financier Garnett L. Keith, an HHMI trustee and Harvard Business School graduate...
CORRECTION The Howard Hughes Medical Institute boasted an endowment of nearly $16 billion in the 2006 fiscal year, according to an HHMI spokeswoman, placing it only behind Harvard and Yale in endowment size. The Jan. 19 news article " 'Iowa Values' for Mass. Hall?" reported the institute's endowment size in fiscal year...