In early 1987, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute funded the researchers gathered for a group photo (front row from left to right) Thomas Südhof, M.D., Elizabeth Goldsmith, Ph.D., Kirsten Fisher-Lindahl, Ph.D., Robert Hammer, Ph.D., and Bruce Beutler, M.D.; (second row left to right): Mary-Jane Gething, Ph.D., Leland Ellis, Ph.D., Clive Slaughter, Ph.D., Flora Katz, Ph.D., and Stephen Sprang, Ph.D.