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To honor visionary scientist Angelika Amon, who passed away in October 2020, Whitehead Institute has established the Angelika Amon Whitehead Fellowship. Prior to being faculty at MIT, Amon was a Whitehead Fellow, an experience she considered to have been a cornerstone forher highly accomplished career in science. The Fellowship will beheld by one of the members of the prestigious Whitehead Fellows Program — which offers extraordinary young researchers the funding, facilities, and mentoring needed to launch their own labs andjump-start their careers in basic biomedical research.

Named after Nobel prize-winning scientist David Baltimore, the David Baltimore Chair honors his tremendous legacy as the first Director of Whitehead Institute. Under Baltimore’s leadership, Whitehead Institute became one of the world’s preeminent institutions for foundational biomedical research. The Baltimore Chair will be held by a senior Member of the Institute.

The annual fund constitutes unrestricted gifts that help the Institute to respond nimbly to emerging opportunities and unexpected challenges, provide seed funding for innovation and intellectual risk-taking, and strengthens the organization as a whole. Overall, unrestricted gifts better enable Whitehead Institute to continue its trajectory of achievement and impact.