The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ is proud to announce that more than 40 faculty and researchers who completed their work while at Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ have been named on the annual Highly Cited Researchers 2023 list from Clarivate.


The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ is proud to announce that more than 40 faculty and researchers who completed their work while at Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ have been named on the annual Highly Cited Researchers 2023 list from Clarivate.

Two Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ faculty members have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences for 2023: Philip Greenberg, professor of medicine and of immunology at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ, as well as the Rona Jaffe Foundation Endowed Chair at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and head of the Program in Immunology in its Clinical Research Division; and Gunther Uhlmann, the Robert R. and Elaine F. Phelps Endowed Professor in Mathematics at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ.

The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ rose from No. 7 to No. 6 on the U.S. News & World Report’s Best Global Universities rankings, released on Tuesday. The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ maintained its No. 2 ranking among U.S. public institutions.

Amid a decline in funding for scientific research, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute is partnering with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Simons Foundation to launch a new Faculty Scholars program. Announced Sept. 22 by HHMI, the inaugural crop of early-career scientists includes 5 faculty members from the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ.

People who are genetically equipped to stop hepatitis C viruses from turning off a type of interferon generally have a robust antiviral response. Findings on the mechanisms governing this ability suggest new avenues for treatment research.

Cell surface lipids hide molecular patterns that infection-killing cells might recognize as dangerous.