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Article: CORNELL'S WANG IN LINE FOR $5M; HOWARD HUGHES INSTITUTE AWARDS FUNDS TO RESEARCHER IN SINGLE-MOLECULE BIOPHYSICS.(Local)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- June 1, 2008
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Byline: Rebecca James Staff writer
A Cornell University researcher who developed new ways of tracking the twists and turns taken by a single molecule was tapped last week to be a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.
Michelle Wang, a biophysicist who came to Cornell from Princeton 10 years ago, is the first Hughes investigator in Upstate New York. The awards, which are typically about $1 million a year for at least five years, are aimed at freeing talented scientists from chasing grants and meant to encourage risk-taking.
"We can actually do experiments we dreamed about doing but didn't feel we had the resources to do," Wang said. "It's ...