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27 October 2026
The 2026 Ingram’s 250—The Most Powerful Business Leaders in Greater Kansas City
Stowers Institute President and Chief Scientific Officer Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado named on Ingram's 250
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26 October 2026
Stowers Communications Team earns Emmy Award for visual storytelling of coral research
The winning video highlights research from the lab of Investigator Matt Gibson, Ph.D., whose team has become one of a handful worldwide to successfully maintain and reproduce reef-building corals in a lab. Their work aims to uncover fundamental insights that could help protect coral that are increasingly threatened by climate change and other environmental pressures.
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Press Release
23 October 2026
From sea anemone to human fertility: A new research organism for understanding meiosis
Stowers Institute scientists found that the sea anemone Nematostella uses many of the same proteins humans rely on to make eggs and sperm, offering the potential for new insights into infertility, miscarriage, and birth defects
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In The News
23 October 2026
Kansas City lab trains artificial intelligence to predict disease proteins
From KCTV5, The Halfmann Lab is helping lead an innovative research effort using artificial intelligence to better understand protein changes linked to neurodegenerative diseases.
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In The News
21 October 2026
Kansas City lab to train AI to predict protein changes tied to ALS, Alzheimer’s
From KCTV5, Investigator Randal Halfmann and a team of local scientists received a $4.1 million grant at Stowers Institute for Medical Research
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Press Release
14 October 2026
Cell division does more than make new cells. It helps reshape tissues.
Tissues constantly add cells as they grow but somehow remain organized. A new study from the Gibson Lab reveals how part of this complex, poorly understood process works — providing new insights into how tissues change during development, regeneration, and disease.
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Press Release
09 October 2026
Stowers scientist selected for $28.6 million effort to predict protein changes behind neurodegenerative disease
The new award brings together a team of scientists who will combine AI, large-scale experiments and human-cell studies to predict harmful protein changes before disease takes hold.
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In The News
29 September 2026
Rapidly Evolving Aphid Proteins Share a Common Structural Blueprint
From Technology Networks: The Stern Lab reveals a shared structural blueprint among thousands of rapidly evolving aphid proteins.
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In The News
24 September 2026
Shared blueprint in aphid proteins helps AI predict their structures
From Phys.org: The Stern Lab reveals how evolution helped AI predict the structures of thousands of rapidly evolving aphid proteins.
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