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182
National Academy of
Sciences members

25
Nobel Prize winners

  • Richard Axel
  • Bruce Beutler
  • Eric Betzig
  • Günter Blobel
  • Linda Buck
  • Mario R. Capecchi
  • Thomas R. Cech
  • Johann Deisenhofer
  • H. Robert Horvitz
  • Eric Kandel
  • Brian Kobilka
  • Edwin Krebs
  • Robert J. Lefkowitz
  • Roderick MacKinnon
  • Craig C. Mello
  • Paul Modrich
  • Daniel Nathans
  • Stanley B. Prusiner
  • Randy W. Schekman
  • Thomas A. Steitz
  • Thomas C. Südhof
  • Jack W. Szostak
  • Susumu Tonegawa
  • Roger Y. Tsien
  • Eric Wieschaus

67
Host institutions
(as of 8/31/15)

2,696
HHMI employees
(as of 8/31/15)

$18.2 billion
Endowment
(as of 8/31/15)

$666 million
Investment in
U.S. biomedical research
(close of FY 2015)

$85 million
Disbursements for science
education
(close of FY 2015)

306
HHMI investigators
(as of 8/31/15)

32
HHMI Early Career Scientists
(as of 8/31/15)

14
HHMI-GBMF investigators
(as of 8/31/15)

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HHMI Investigator Robert Lefkowitz

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