The memorial honored the Nobel Prize–winning scientist and reflected on his profound impact on modern biology, the institutions he shaped, and the generations of scientists he mentored.
Zuri Sullivan, an immunologist who studies how the immune system communicates with the brain to shape behavior during infection, joins Whitehead Institute this January as a Member.
The Whitehead Institute Board of Directors has elected Peter Grauer, a business leader and philanthropist who served as the longtime chairman of Bloomberg LP, to a six-year term beginning in December 2025.
Ron Vale, a world-renowned cell biologist who is an expert on motor proteins and cell transport systems, joins Whitehead Institute this December as a Member.
Whitehead Institute is pleased to announce that Margaret Fala will be the Institute’s new Vice President for External Relations. She is an accomplished administrator with a strong track record in academic and healthcare fundraising.
Margaret Sand (1938-2025) was Whitehead Institute’s first head of HR, who helped build the faculty and remained a great friend of Institute throughout her life.
Ly is one of six doctoral researchers worldwide to receive the distinction this year. The award celebrates his work uncovering how variants of known proteins—which have previously been overlooked by scientists as occasional accidents of gene expression—are regulated in cells, and how they shape human health and disease.
Whitehead Institute remembers its Founding Director, David Baltimore — the globally respected researcher, academic leader, and science policy visionary who guided the careers of generations of individual scientists and educators.
