Whitehead Culture

Gabe Lopes first attended Expedition: Bio, Whitehead Institute’s summer science program for middle school students, in 2019. He loved the experience so much that he attended again the next year. Now a high schooler, Gabe has decided to return to Expedition: Bio once more, this time as a teaching assistant.

Fran Lewitter, the founding director of Whitehead Institute’s Bioinformatics and Research Computing (BaRC) program from 1994 to 2014, has been named a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology.

Gavin Schlissel is a postdoc in Whitehead Institute Member Pulin Li’s lab studying cell signaling and how proteins move between cells. We sat down with Gavin to learn more about him and his experiences in and out of the lab.

Whitehead Institute Member Mary Gehring was a featured presenter at a recent symposium sponsored by the MIT Climate Grand Challenges initiative.

Our 2021 Annual Report is filled with highlights from the year — both scientific and otherwise. 

Whitehead Institute has three contenders in the starting round of STAT Madness 2022, STAT’s March Madness-style competition of the year’s top biomedical research discoveries. 

Han Tran is a Damon Runyon Postdoctoral Fellow in Whitehead Institute Director Ruth Lehmann’s lab studying endoplasmic reticulum biology in the context of the cells that make eggs and sperm. We sat down with Tran to learn more about her and her experiences in and out of the lab.

Whitehead Institute scientists taking on a research challenge outside of their area of expertise use an open science approach to get outside input.

Researchers are settling into a cautious equilibrium as the world enters the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic.