Page 4 - The Hormel Institute 2024 Annual Report

4 | THE HORMEL INSTITUTE // UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
NEW FACULTY
DRIVING SCIENCE FORWARD
To move our mission forward, we have been actively recruiting. Over the last two years, ten new faculty members joined The Hormel Institute with ambitious and innovative research visions aimed to discover new knowledge that can lead to better health and longer lives. We now have 27 research leaders from top institutions all over the world.
These faculty have traveled far to join our team of world-class experts. Their research spans broad and varied areas of investigation, all of which align with where the Institute has been and where we are going— questions with answers that have implications for our understanding of cancer and other chronic diseases, nutrition, metabolism, agricultural methods impacting human health, and much more.
But why grow our ranks so quickly over the span of two years? There are many answers which come easily: mainly, we house advanced technol- ogy and the right resources—if more scientists can make use of them in the name of seeking out vital medical research discoveries, we think we ought to let them.
And why The Hormel Institute? We’ll let these research leaders answer for themselves. Here is what our newest faculty members have to say about why they decided this curious place for discovery was the right workplace for them to advance their unique research.