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The Howard Hughes Medical Institute has named Dr. Maria Toro Moreno as a Hanna Gray Fellow, one of 25 "outstanding" early career scientists to receive the honor this year, which comes with financial support for her research on "microproteins."

Fred Hutch investigators Drs. Harmit Malik and Steve Henikoff have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Their membership honors their contributions to our understanding of fundamental biological processes, including how genetic conflict shapes evolution and the structure, function and evolution of chromosomes

The Genetics Society of America honored Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center's Dr. Harmit Malik with the Edward Novitski Prize for his extraordinary ingenuity and intellectual ingenuity in his studies of genetic conflict.

AIDS@40: Stories of hope and heroes The people and the science devoted to stopping HIV Álex Cámara / Getty Images June 5, 2021, will mark 40 years since Los Angeles physician Dr. Michael Gottlieb and colleagues published the first medical account of what would eventually become known as AIDS. It was a short summary in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s printed weekly newsletter of five cases of pneumonia in gay men, all of whom eventually died. The global story tha...