National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award

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National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award is a research initiative first announced in 2004 designed to support individual scientists' biomedical research. The focus is specifically on "pioneering" research that is highly innovative and has a potential to produce paradigm shifting results. The awards, made annually from the National Institutes of Health common fund, are each worth $500,000 per year, or $2,500,000 for five years.

Recipients

Source: NIH

2004

Larry Abbott

George Q. Daley

Homme W. Hellinga

Joseph McCune

Steven L. McKnight

Rob Phillips

Stephen R. Quake

Chad Mirkin

Xiaoliang Sunney Xie

2005

Vicki L. Chandler

Hollis T. Cline

Erich D. Jarvis

Thomas A. Rando

Derek J. Smith

Giulio Tononi

Clare M. Waterman-Storer

Nathan Wolfe

Junying Yuan

2006

Kwabena A. Boahen

Arup K. Chakraborty

Lila M. Gierasch

Rebecca W. Heald

Karla Kirkegaard

Thomas J. Kodadek

Cheng Chi Lee

Evgeny A. Nudler

Gary J. Pielak

David A. Relman

Rosalind A Segal

James L. Sherley

Younan Xia

2007

Lisa Feldman Barrett

Peter Bearman

Emery N. Brown

Thomas R. Clandinin

James J. Collins

Margaret Gardel

Takao K. Hensch

Marshall S. Horwitz

Rustem F. Ismagilov

Frances E. Jensen

Mark J. Schnitzer

Gina Turrigiano

2008

James K. Chen, Ph.D., Stanford University

Ricardo Dolmetsch, Ph.D., Stanford University

James Eberwine, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

Joshua M. Epstein, Ph.D., Brookings Institution/Santa Fe Institute

Bruce A. Hay, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology

Ann Hochschild, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School

Charles M. Lieber, Ph.D., Harvard University

Barry London, M.D., Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh

Tom Maniatis, Ph.D., Harvard University

Teri W. Odom, Ph.D., Northwestern University

Hongkun Park, Ph.D., Harvard University

Aviv Regev, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Broad Institute

Aravinthan D.T. Samuel, Ph.D., Harvard University

Saeed Tavazoie, Ph.D., Princeton University

Alice Y. Ting, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Alexander van Oudenaarden, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2009

Ivor J. Benjamin

Ajay Chawla

Chang-Zheng Chen

Hilde Cheroutre

Markus W. Covert

Joseph M. DeSimone

Sylvia M. Evans

Joseph R. Fetcho

Timothy E. Holy

Tannishtha Reya

Gene E. Robinson

Susan M. Rosenberg

Leona D. Samson

Nirao M. Shah

Krishna V. Shenoy

Sarah A. Tishkoff

Alexander J. Travis

Jin Zhang

2010

Carlos F. Barbas III, Ph.D., The Scripps Research Institute

Pamela J. Bjorkman, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology

Valentin Dragoi, Ph.D., University of Texas, Health Science Center at Houston

Stephen W. Fesik, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

Tamas L. Horvath, D.V.M., Ph.D., Yale University School of Medicine

J. Keith Joung, M.D., Ph.D., Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School

David Kleinfeld, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego

Haifan Lin, Ph.D., Yale University

Jun O. Liu, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Andres Villu Maricq, M.D., Ph.D., University of Utah

Joseph H. Nadeau, Ph.D., The Institute for Systems Biology

Miguel A. L. Nicolelis, M.D., Ph.D. , Duke University

Lalita Ramakrishnan, M.D., Ph.D., University of Washington

Lorna W. Role, Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook

Michael L. Roukes, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology

Ram Samudrala, Ph.D., University of Washington

Bruce A. Yankner, M.D., Ph.D., Harvard Medical School

2011

Utpal Banerjee, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Brenda L. Bass, Ph.D., University of Utah

Jean Bennett, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

William M. Clemons, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology

Florian Engert, Ph.D., Harvard University

Andrew P. Feinberg, M.D., M.P.H., Johns Hopkins University

James E.K. Hildreth, M.D., Ph.D., University of California, Davis

Tao Pan, Ph.D., University of Chicago

Sharad Ramanathan, Ph.D., Harvard University

David S. Schneider, Ph.D., Stanford University

Thanos Siapas, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology

Andreas S. Tolias, Ph.D. , Baylor College of Medicine

Mehmet Fatih Yanik, Ph.D. , Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2012

Anne Brunet, Ph.D., Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Edward Marcotte, Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin, TX

Hidde Ploegh, Ph.D., Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA

Christina Smolke, Ph.D., Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Yi Tang, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, CA

Doris Ying Tsao, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA

Lihong Wang, Ph.D., Washington University, St. Louis, MO

Chao-Ting Wu, Ph.D., Harvard University Medical School, Boston, MA

Gary Yellen, Ph.D., Harvard University Medical School, Boston, MA

Feng Zhang, Ph.D., Broad Institute Inc., Cambridge, MA

2013

Amy F.T. Arnsten, Ph.D., Yale University, New Haven, CT

Edward S. Boyden, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA

Vadim N. Gladyshev, Ph.D., Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Baljit S. Khakh, Ph.D., University of California Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine, CA

Michael Z. Lin, M.D., Ph.D., Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Jay Shendure, M.D., Ph.D., University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Natalia A. Trayanova, Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

Fan Wang, Ph.D., Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC

Leor S Weinberger, Ph.D., Gladstone Institutes and University of California, San Francisco, CA

Xiaoliang Sunney Xie, Ph.D., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Rafael M Yuste, M.D., Ph.D., Columbia University, New York, NY

Mark J Zylka, Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

2014

Jayakrishna Ambati, M.D., University of Kentucky

Chenghua Gu, D.V.M., Ph.D., Harvard medical School

Cato T. Laurencin, M.D., Ph.D., University of Connecticut

Denise J. Montell, Ph.D., University of California Santa Barbara

Carl D. Novina, M.D., Ph.D., Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Amy Palmer, Ph.D., University of Colorado

Dana Pe'er, Ph.D., Columbia University

Oliver Rando, M.D., Ph.D. , University of Massachusetts Medical School

Donna L. Spiegelman, Sc.D., Harvard School of Public Health

Sean Wu, M.D., Ph.D., Stanford University

2015

Giovanni Bosco, Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine

Jeffery S. Cox, University of California San Francisco

Matthew David Disney, The Scripps Research Institute

Zemer Gitai, Princeton University

Jonathon Howard, Yale University

Craig Montell, University of California Santa Barbara

Coleen T. Murphy, Princeton University

Gwendalyn J. Randolph, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis

Steven J. Schiff, The Pennsylvania State University

Hao Wu, Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School

Tony Wyss-Coray, Stanford University School of Medicine and VA Palo Alto

Ryohei Yasuda, Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience

Sheng Zhong, University of California San Diego

2016

Kristin Baldwin, The Scripps Research Institute

Bradley Bernstein, Massachusetts General Hospital and Broad Institute

Michael Fischbach, University of California, San Francisco

Uri Hasson, Princeton University

Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Nancy Kanwisher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Stephen D. Liberles, Harvard Medical School

Christine Mayr, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Joshua D. Rabinowitz, Princeton University

Meng Wang, Baylor College of Medicine

Sing Sing Way, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital

Seok-Hyun "Andy" Yun, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School

References

National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award Wikipedia

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