Awards + Announcements

Research on sex differences goes head to head with other discoveries in March Madness-style bracket.

The award recognizes Sabatini’s pathbreaking work on mTOR and cancer metabolism

In honoring him with the Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal, GSA is recognizing Fink’s discovery of principles central to genome organization and regulation in eukaryotic cells.

Whitehead Member and MIT Professor Hazel Sive launched MIT-Africa’s short course program

Whitehead Institute Member Hazel Sive, a globally respected developmental biologist and educator, will become Dean of the College of Science at Northeastern University, beginning in June 2020.

Election to the NAM is considered one of the highest honors for U.S. medical practitioners, public health leaders, and biomedical researchers.  

Lehmann, a world renowned developmental and cell biology researcher, will be Whitehead Institute’s fifth Director. 

David H. Koch, former member of the Whitehead Institute Board of Directors and prominent philanthropist has passed away