![]() This really allows you to think freely and be creative." "I have lots of ideas I want to explore, but you don't have the opportunity to explore ideas dramatically different than you proposed." At HHMI, she said, "they want you to take risks they want you to go out and explore new things. "This is going to be a dramatic change," said Wang, one of 56 scientists nationally chosen to receive the honor. The award, which stipulates only that 75 percent of an investigator's time be devoted to direct biomedical research, is designed to foster originality and flexibility. Wang's salary and much of her research at Cornell will be supported by HHMI for five years, after which she will be reviewed for renewal. ![]() ![]() ![]() An associate professor of physics and the leader of the Single Molecule Biophysics Lab, Wang is the first researcher on Cornell's Ithaca campus to receive the award. Biophysicist Michelle Wang has been named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator, an honor awarded for innovative and promising biological and biomedical research. ![]()
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