The Stowers Institute attracts the best minds from all over the world. At last count, our scientists and students hailed from 30 different countries.

The all-female lizard species Aspidoscelis tesselata successfully carries on without
any males.
Peter Baumann discovered how the ladies do it.

When you hear “prion” you might think “mad cow disease.” Think again. Kausik Si’s lab found that a prion-like protein is an essential ingredient in storing long-term memories.

We invite applications from curious, enthusiastic students who enjoy the company of critical thinkers and the rigors of a challenging curriculum.

Left to their own devices stem cells are lost. Instead, their fate is determined by cells around them, Ting Xie discovered.

Closing a line of inquiry opened over a decade ago, Ali Shilatifard and his team traced a key complex implicated in human leukemia all the way from yeast to fruitflies to humans.