What is the HHMI investigator program?
The Institute seeks out highly creative investigators at distinguished universities, research institutes, and medical schools across the United States who span the full range of leading-edge biological and biomedical research. It identifies them through multilevel, peer-reviewed competitions and employs them within the context of HHMI’s relationship with their “host institution.” HHMI’s philosophy is to support “people, not projects,” and HHMI provides long-term, flexible funding to enable its investigators to pursue their scientific interests wherever they lead. HHMI currently employs approximately 350 investigators from more than 70 such host institutions, along with more than 2,000 of their scientific staff.
