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5 unusual facts about Whitehead Institute


Angelika Amon

She completed a two year post-doctoral fellowship at the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts and was subsequently named a Whitehead Fellow for three years.

Cellular microarray

David M. Sabatini's laboratory developed reverse-transfection cell microarrays at the Whitehead Institute, publishing their work in 2001.

Haplogroup Q-M3

Q-PAGES104 This lineage was discovered by the research group at the Whitehead Institute headed by Dr. David C. Page.

Q-PAGES131 This lineage was discovered by the research group at the Whitehead Institute headed by Dr. David C. Page.

Iain Cheeseman

Cheeseman is currently a junior Faculty Member at Whitehead Institute and an Assistant Professor at MIT.


Aaron Ciechanover

He received his doctorate in biochemistry in 1981 from the Technion (the Israel Institute of Technology) in Haifa before conducting postdoctoral research in the laboratory of Harvey Lodish at the Whitehead Institute at MIT from 1981-1984.


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Vamsi Mootha

He completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, and then pursued postdoctoral training at the Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research.