Prof Brent Stockwell- The 2009 HHMI Early Career Scientist

HHMI Gives 50 Early Career Scientists a Jump on Their Next Big Idea

Fifty of the nation’s best early career science faculty will have more time and resources to focus on their boldest—and potentially transformative—research ideas with support from a new initiative from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Prof Brent Stockwell from the dept of Biological Sciences & dept of Chemistry, Columbia University is one of them.

Brent Stockwell has invented several drug discovery technologies. He uses small molecules to reveal vulnerabilities in tumor cells, to stop the damage caused by protein misfolding in neurodegenerative disorders, and to illuminate basic mechanisms of cell death.

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