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I owe a great deal to the Carnegie Institution of Washington, now called the Carnegie Institute for Science. It has supported my research for 50 years. I have had generous grants from the US National Institute of General Medical Science since 1975. The G. Harold & Leila Y. Mathers Foundation supported my research in amphibian metamorphosis. Many wonderful graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and other colleagues have contributed to these studies. It is a special pleasure to share the responsibility of running the LSRF with D. Koshland. He and I are responsible for finding sponsors who will support postdoctoral fellows. C. Pratt carries out the day-to-day decisions with the highest efficiency and intelligence. S. DiRenzo, T. Silhavy and J. Broach administer LSRF's peer review process at Princeton University, which this year reached its highest application number ever of 900.
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Brown, D. Developmental biology using purified genes. Nat Med 18, 1496–1498 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm.2929
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