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W. Maxwell Cowan recently retired as the vice president and chief scientific officer at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), Chevy Chase, Maryland. Born and raised in South Africa, Dr. Cowan received his D. Phil from Oxford University and served on the faculty at Oxford before moving to the United States. He was affiliated with Washington University, St.Louis, for 15 years before joining the Salk Institute, where he served as Vice President. In 1986, Dr Cowan returned to Washington University to become Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor. He joined the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in 1988. Dr. Cowan is a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences. Thomas C. Sudhof is an HHMI investigator and professor of molecular genetics at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. He obtained postdoctoral training first with Victor Whittaker at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Gottingen, and then with Michael Brown and Joseph Goldstein in Dallas. Charles F. Stevens is an HHMI investigator at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and adjunct professor of Pharmacology and of Neuroscience at the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine. Dr. Stevens is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.