Caltech professors Viviana Gradinaru (BS ’05) and André Hoelz have been named among 26 new investigators of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). They join a community of more than 250 HHMI investigators across fields ranging from neuroscience to immunology to structural biology.
Gradinaru is the Lois and Victor Troendle Professor of Neuroscience and Biological Engineering. She is also the Allen V. C. Davis and Lenabelle Davis Leadership Chair and director of the Richard N. Merkin Institute for Translational Research as well as director of the Center for Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience. Hoelz is the Mary and Charles Ferkel Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry.