Janelia Farm Research Campus

Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Farm Research Campus, in Ashburn, VA is a leading biomedical research center where outstanding scientists from diverse disciplines use emerging and innovative technologies to pursue biology's most challenging problems.

Researchers work together in multidisciplinary teams to solve challenging biological problems that are difficult to address in existing research settings. Such collaborative groups are "self-assembling" and not imposed in any way. This culture enhances academic freedom by allowing scientists to pursue long-term projects of high significance-projects that could not fit within the confines of a standard grant proposal.

The architectural designs of the buildings and the laboratories are aimed at achieving Janelia Farm's central objectives-collaboration and flexibility. All aspects of the Janelia Farm Research Campus-the programs, the people, the design of the buildings, and infrastructure-are designed to stimulate multidisciplinary, team-driven biomedical research.