The Howard Hughes Medical Institute congratulates 50 graduate students in science and their advisers who were named to the 2024 cohort of the Gilliam Fellows Program on July 9. These student-adviser pairs are recognized for their outstanding research as well as their commitments to advancing equity and inclusion in science.
This year’s Gilliam Fellows hail from 43 institutions in the US, including 10 schools celebrating their first-ever Gilliam Fellows award. Administered by HHMI’s Center for the Advancement of Science Leadership and Culture (CASLC), the Gilliam Fellows Program will provide each student-adviser pair with $53,000 in support each year for up to three years of the student’s dissertation research. This year’s cohort includes scientists working in a wide range of biomedical and life science areas including brain development and wiring, CRISPR-based epigenetic editors, and the molecular etiology of mood disorders.
