Fred Hutch Evolutionary Geneticist Harmit Malik Selected as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
Thursday, May 9, 2013 - 06:00
in Biology & Nature
Harmit Singh Malik, Ph.D., an evolutionary geneticist at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center who studies genetic conflict - the competition between genes and proteins with opposing functions that drives evolutionary change - has been selected to become a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. He is among 27 of the nation's top biomedical scientists to receive the honor this year out of a pool of more than 1,100 applicants.