Founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1902, the private, nonprofit Institution has an annual budget of $16 million. It supports research in biology, astronomy and the earth sciences by 60 scientists and 120 fellows at five centers in the United States and Chile.
"Carnegie stands for tremendous excellence in science," said Singer. "It has a reputation for breaking new ground in important areas of research, for being adventurous in what it is willing to support, and for being small enough to be flexible."
Singer, 56, will become the first woman to lead the institution when she assumes her position March 1, 1988. She said she hopes to continue her research at NIH on genome organization in primates. "I expect to have a lab here, but my office will be at Carnegie," she said, referring to the future swapping of her administrative duties as a lab chief for those of an institution ...
