Two VP&S Faculty Named HHMI Freeman Hrabrowski Scholars

Two VP&S faculty—Mustafa Aydogan and Vikram Gadagkar—have been selected as 2025 Freeman Hrabrowski Scholars by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). 

Freeman Hrabowski Scholars are outstanding early career faculty who have the potential to become leaders in their research fields and to create lab environments in which everyone can thrive. Scholars are appointed to a five-year term, with potential for a second five-year term.

Mustafa Aydogan, PhD, assistant professor of genetics and development, investigates the fundamental principles of biological time control in animal development, metabolism, and disease. His lab also studies how biological time can be suspended during cellular quiescence, senescence, and dormancy. Read more.

Vikram Gadagkar, PhD, assistant professor of neuroscience, investigates how brains evaluate behaviors, both self-generated and the behaviors of others, by studying the courtship songs of birds with state-of-the-art computational, theoretical, and experimental approaches. Read more.