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(Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia) Five of the 28 scientists considered "people who, 10 years from now, will be the scientific leaders in their countries," by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, are working in Portugal.

HHMI's newest awardees were chosen from 760 candidates, from 18 countries. Each researcher secures $650,000 in funding over a five-year period to carry out research in such diverse areas as neuroscience, parasitology, aging and bacterial communication.

(Howard Hughes Medical Institute) The KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV (K-RITH) has awarded a total of 1.7 million rand ($248,000) to 18 South African scientists and students to help build new tuberculosis and HIV research collaborations throughout South Africa.

(Howard Hughes Medical Institute) Public health workers in Haiti are focusing their efforts on treating those with cholera-like symptoms and providing clean water and adequate sanitation to control the disease's spread.

In a New England Journal of Medicine editorial, vaccine and infectious disease experts note that safe and reasonably effective vaccines could complement these efforts, but are in short supply.

The United States should stockpile cholera vaccines for rapid deployment to high-risk parts of the world, the scientists say.

(Rice University) The Howard Hughes Medical Institute today awarded a $1.2 million, four-year grant to continue Rice University's successful undergraduate global health program Beyond Traditional Borders.

In the first four years of the program, more than 10 percent of Rice's undergraduates have taken a BTB class.

BTB challenges students to devise practical solutions to real-world problems in the developing world.

(UT Southwestern Medical Center) Mariam El-Ashmawy, a student enrolled in UT Southwestern Medical Center's prestigious Medical Scientist Training Program, has been awarded a 2010 Gilliam Fellowship for Advanced Study from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

(Howard Hughes Medical Institute) On Feb. 20, 2010, at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, HHMI investigator Owen Witte will discuss a new tool to understand how cancers grow -- and with it a new opportunity to identify novel cancer drugs.

Witte's team has been able to break apart human prostate tissue, extract the stem cells in that tissue, and alter those cells genetically so that they spur cancer.

(Howard Hughes Medical Institute) Cancer biologists have long known that it takes the cooperation of multiple cancer-causing genes to cause cancer.

Now, Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers have shown that the cooperating mutations can occur in neighboring cells.

(St. Jude Children's Research Hospital) Charles Sherr, M.D., Ph.D., co-chair of Genetics and Tumor Cell Biology at St.

Jude Children's Research Hospital and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, has been awarded the distinction of American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow.

(UT Southwestern Medical Center) A UT Southwestern Medical Center program designed to teach medical basics and clinical research to graduate students has received $700,000 from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

(Rice University) The Howard Hughes Medical Institute today committed to a four-year renewal of funds for an innovative biomedical training program between Rice University and the University of Texas M.D.

Anderson Cancer Center. The unique translational medicine program, which was founded with an HHMI grant in 2006, capitalizes on the strengths of Rice's top-10-ranked bioengineering program and M.D.

Anderson's internationally acclaimed clinical programs.