GEORGE DALEY NAMED HHMI INVESTIGATOR The Howard Hughes Medical Institute has announced the appointment of Dr. George Daley as an HHMI Investigator. The Howard Hughes Medical Institute is a nonprofit medical research organization dedicated to discovering and disseminating new knowledge in the basic life sciences. Investigators are selected through rigorous national competition, and appointment signals the Institutes' recognition of outstanding individual researchers who have the potential to make significant contributions to science. Among the current Hughes Investigators are 12 Nobel Prize winners and 122 members of the National Academy of Sciences. Once selected, HHMI investigators Investigators continue to be based at their home institutions, but become Institute employees and are supported by field staff throughout the country. Dr. Leonard Zon, Director of the Stem Cell Program, has been a Hughes Investigator since 1998.
To read the formal announcement of Dr. Daley's appointment, go to the HHMI Web site.
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