📣Announcing our first awardees of 2026🌠, who are setting out to uncover new knowledge about microbes in extreme environments, host-microbiome interactions, & bacterial defenses. bit.ly/HFAwardees
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✨Announcing our newest awardees, who are taking scientific leaps to uncover new knowledge across microbial ecology, marine microbiology, and mammalian genetics. Learn about their projects: bit.ly/HFAwardees

Meet our awardees and hear from their #HFScouts in our 🧵/1

How is our strategy different? We empower our diverse network of #HFScouts to identify and recommend especially innovative, #highrisk #highreward research projects for support via catalytic seed grants. Learn more about all of the talented scientist Scouts: www.hypothesisfund.org/scouts 3/3

🌠 Announcing our latest awardees! 🤩 These talented scientists are uncovering how viruses infect cells, decoding cell behavior, and exploring the hidden biology in the ocean: bit.ly/HFAwardees.

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🎉 Big news! President & Chief Scientific Officer
@planaria1.bsky.social has been named a Scientist Scout by the @hypothesisfund.bsky.social which will help support his work in the field of regenerative #biology. #HFScouts

Learn more about this exciting announcement: www.stowers.org/news/stowers...

Hypothesis Fund Scouts — Hypothesis Fund The Hypothesis Fund’s world-class network of Scouts identify compelling seed-stage research projects that would otherwise be un-pursued or underfunded. We provide nimble funding for nimble minds.

At the Hypothesis Fund, we empower our diverse network of #HFScouts to identify and recommend especially innovative, #highrisk #highreward research projects for support via catalytic seed grants. Learn more about all of the talented scientist Scouts: www.hypothesisfund.org/scouts 3/3

I am grateful and excited to begin this new work!

It is tough to evaluate and fund risky, interdisciplinary work but the visionaries at the Hypothesis Fund were willing to help! Many thanks to brilliant #HFScouts Dianne Newman for very thoughtful engagement.

🎊Announcing our first awardees of 2025! These talented scientists are generating new knowledge about host immunity, bacterial pathogens, and gene-environment interactions. Read more about them: bit.ly/HFAwardees.

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