Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)

Vanderbilt, Meharry graduate students among the 2024 HHMI Gilliam Fellows

They are the only two from Tennessee named this year for the program, which provides support for each student’s dissertation research for up to three years.

Martin Douglass, PhD, is studying how Clostridioides difficile (C. diff), a bacterium that causes diarrhea and colitis, inflammation of the colon, responds to host-mediated immune responses.

VUMC postdoctoral researcher selected as HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow

Vanderbilt postdoctoral researcher Martin Douglass, PhD, has been named a 2023 Hanna Gray Fellow by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.