National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award

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. ^[1]

Recipients

Source: NIH

2004

2005

2006

2007

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

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 V. 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 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^[2]

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^[3]

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

2017

Hongjie Dai, Stanford University
Amit Etkin, Stanford University
Howard A. Fine, Weill Cornell College of Medicine
Charles M. Lieber, Harvard University
Jeffrey D. Macklis, Harvard University
Luciano A. Marraffini, Rockefeller University
Alex Schier, Harvard University
Ramin Shiekhattar, University of Miami
David A. Sinclair, Harvard Medical School
Justin L. Sonnenburg, Stanford University
Kay M. Tye, MIT
Feng Zhang, Broad Institute, MIT

2018

Source: NIH^[4]

Janelle S. Ayres, Salk Institute
Daniel A. Colón-Ramos, Yale University School of Medicine
Christina Curtis, Stanford University School of Medicine
Viviana Gradinaru, Caltech
Jonathan Kipnis, University of Virginia School of Medicine
Hyungbae Kwon, Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience
Michelle Monje, Stanford University
Gabriel D. Victora, Rockefeller University
Amy J. Wagers, Harvard Medical School
Peng Yin, Harvard University

References

^ "Pioneer Award Program". National Institutes of Health. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
^ 2015 Pioneer Award Recipients
^ 2016 Pioneer Award Recipients
^ "NIH Director's Pioneer Award Program - Award Recipients". commonfund.nih.gov.

External links

Official website

[1] "Pioneer Award Program". National Institutes of Health. Retrieved 14 August 2015.

[2] 2015 Pioneer Award Recipients

[3] 2016 Pioneer Award Recipients

[4] "NIH Director's Pioneer Award Program - Award Recipients". commonfund.nih.gov.

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