Montana Setting Sparks Remarkable Research for Stanford, RML Scientists

For 27 consecutive years, Stanford University Professor Irving Weissman has used his Montana ranch and NIAID’s nearby Rocky Mountain Laboratories as an ideal setting to foster collaborations between Stanford research groups and NIAID scientists. The “Weissman Retreat” is a multi-day gathering where budding, mid-career and senior scientists share ideas and plan projects, sometimes while fishing on the Bitterroot River adjacent to Weissman’s ranch, sometimes while hiking the miles of nearby canyon trails, or sometimes during casual discussions at the laboratory campus or the ranch dinner table. The gathering has been quite productive.