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  141
National Academy of
Sciences members
(as of 4/27/2010)


13
Nobel Prize winners
Richard Axel
Günter Blobel
Linda Buck
Mario R. Capecchi
Thomas R. Cech
H. Robert Horvitz
Eric Kandel
Roderick MacKinnon
Craig C. Mello
Thomas A. Steitz
Jack W. Szostak
Roger Y. Tsien
Eric Wieschaus

5
Former HHMI
Nobel Prize winners

Johann Deisenhofer
Edwin G. Krebs
Daniel Nathans
Stanley B. Prusiner
Susumu Tonegawa

27,886
Copies of DVD
"AIDS: Evolution of an Epidemic"
mailed (as of 5/5/09)

336
HHMI investigators
(as of 9/1/10)


50
HHMI Early Career Scientists
(as of 3/1/10)


71
Host institutions
(as of 9/1/10)


3,078
HHMI employees
(as of 11/30/09)


$831 million
Operating budget
(FY 2009)


$14 billion
Endowment
(close of FY 2009)


$730 million
Investment in
biomedical research
(close of FY 2009)


$101 million
Grants for science
education and
international science
(close of FY 2009)




Janelia Farm:

689-acre campus

Opened in October 2006

More than 300 permanent research staff

Extensive support: 12 shared resource labs and scientific computing

38 resident lab heads

Visiting Scientists
Program: More than 100 current and former participants

Conferences:
12 in 2007, 14 in 2008,
13 in 2009

3 training programs:
Postdoctoral, Graduate Student (7 students as of fall 2009), Undergraduate Summer Scholars (4 in 2007, 14 in 2008, 16 in 2009)

Director:
Gerald M. Rubin, HHMI
Vice President and
Director

Location: Ashburn,
Virginia

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Janelia Farm


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