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16 July 2025
Stowers Institute appoints Kristin Bechard as Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer
Seasoned financial executive joins leadership team to help advance long-term vision.
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16 July 2025
Seasoned financial executive joins leadership team to help advance long-term vision.
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14 July 2025
Stowers scientists identify specific genes involved in zebrafish sensory hair cell regrowth, providing new insights that could inform future research into hearing loss treatments
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26 June 2025
Kamena Kostova, Ph.D., is among a select group of scientists recognized nationwide for their promise to help shape the future of scientific discovery.
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06 June 2025
The study from the Stowers Institute and the University of Georgia uncovers more than 300 potential targets for drug development for a lethal fungus.
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15 May 2025
Arvind Pillai, Ph.D., from the University of Washington, and Friederike Benning, Ph.D., from Harvard University/Massachusetts General Hospital, will join the Institute in Fall 2025
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30 April 2025
Jerry Workman, Ph.D., a pioneer in the field of gene regulation, receives one of the highest honors awarded to scientists worldwide.
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27 March 2025
Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado, Ph.D., receives recognition as a leader and expert in regenerative biology and its potential to transform human health.
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17 March 2025
The findings may help scientists better understand infertility, neurodegeneration, and evolution.
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08 January 2025
Riley Galton, Ph.D., studies a phenomenon that allows many vertebrates – from sharks to mammals – to “pause” their development in response to environmental changes, sometimes for months or even years
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26 September 2024
The findings are a step toward closing the gap on how we could one day deploy regenerative medicine in humans
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28 August 2024
The team of researchers recorded the highest natural blood sugar levels ever observed in a mammal, now they hope it could help them better understand diabetes.
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22 July 2024
Stowers scientists uncover fundamental rules for how dengue virus infects its mosquito and human hosts, providing hope for identifying therapeutic approaches
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30 April 2024
Kamena Kostova, Ph.D., a molecular biologist from Carnegie Science, will open her lab at the Stowers Institute in Fall 2024.
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25 March 2024
The Stowers Graduate School Board of Directors names Matt Gibson, Ph.D., as President
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14 March 2024
Stowers scientists’ collaboration reveals a genetic basis for starvation-induced fatty liver with a potential therapeutic avenue
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21 February 2024
Scientific Director Kausik Si from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research alongside Investigator Lukasz Joachimiak from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center received CZI's Collaborative Pairs Pilot Project Awards grant for their project titled, “Tuning memory by altering amyloids.”
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21 February 2024
Stowers scientists uncover how sea lamprey brain development is remarkably similar to that of humans
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20 October 2023
Stowers scientists collaborate to uncover one underlying reason for male infertility
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23 August 2023
Could potentially improve success rate of cancer drug development
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13 June 2023
How did ancient animals develop from egg to adult, and to what extent have the genetic mechanisms that guide embryonic development endured across millennia?
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13 June 2023
Stowers scientists deduce the initiating structure of the amyloid implicated in Huntington’s and present a potential therapeutic treatment approach.
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06 June 2023
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04 May 2023
Offers unique opportunity to study similar chromosomes linked to cancer and infertility in humans
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03 May 2023
Scientists recruited from MIT, NYU, and Princeton
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