Trevor Bed­ford, Cigall Kadoch among this year's in­com­ing HH­MI in­ves­ti­ga­tors

The Howard Hugh­es Med­ical In­sti­tute — the non­prof­it known for dol­ing out gen­er­ous in­ves­ti­ga­tor awards to bio­phar­ma’s ris­ing stars — has se­lect­ed its Class of 2021.

This year’s list of 33 in­ves­ti­ga­tors fea­tures some note­wor­thy names, in­clud­ing Fred Hutchin­son’s Trevor Bed­ford, who sound­ed the alarm on the first known com­mu­ni­ty trans­mis­sion of Covid-19 in the US last Feb­ru­ary; Foghorn founder and Dana-Far­ber re­searcher Cigall Kadoch, who re­cent­ly joined End­points News for a pan­el dis­cus­sion dur­ing #ES­MO21; and award-win­ning Johns Hop­kins stem cell re­searcher Xin Chen.

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