National Institutes of Health

National Institutes of Health

The National Institutes of Health are an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services and are the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and health-related research. Its science and engineering counterpart is the National Science Foundation...

 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 award is direct costs of $500,000 per year, or $2,500,00 for five years.

2004

• Larry Abbott
• George Q. Daley
  George Q. Daley
  George Q. Daley, M.D., Ph.D. is the Samuel E. Lux IV Professor of Hematology/Oncology and the Director of the Stem Cell Transplantation Program at Children’s Hospital Boston...
  
  
• Homme W. Hellinga
• Joseph McCune
• Steven L. McKnight
• Rob Phillips
• Stephen R. Quake
• Chad Mirkin
  Chad Mirkin
  Chad A. Mirkin is an American chemist. He is the George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Medicine, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, and Director of the International Institute for Nanotechnology and Center for Nanofabrication and Molecular Self-Assembly at...
  
  
• Xiaoliang Sunney Xie
  Xiaoliang Sunney Xie
  Xiaoliang Sunney Xie is the Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University. Xie is considered a founding father of single-molecule enzymology. He has also made major contributions to biomedical imaging by developing CARS microscopy.Xie received a B.S. in chemistry...
  
  

2005

• Vicki L. Chandler
• Hollis T. Cline
• Leda Cosmides
  Leda Cosmides
  Leda Cosmides, is an American psychologist, who, together with anthropologist husband John Tooby, helped develop the field of evolutionary psychology....
  
  
• Titia de Lange
• Karl Deisseroth
• Pehr A.B. Harbury
• Erich D. Jarvis
• Thomas A. Rando
• Derek J. Smith
• Giulio Tononi
  Giulio Tononi
  Giulio Tononi is a professor of psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin. He is an authority on sleep, and in particular the genetics and etiology of sleep.He is also interested in the nature of consciousness,...
  
  
• Clare M. Waterman-Storer
• Nathan Wolfe
  Nathan Wolfe
  Nathan D. Wolfe is an American virologist. He is currently Director of the Global Viral Forecasting Initiative and the Lorry I. Lokey Visiting Professor in Human Biology at Stanford University. Dr. Wolfe spent over eight years conducting biomedical research in both sub-Saharan Africa and...
  
  
• 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
  Younan Xia
  Younan Xia is the James M. McKelvey Professor for Advanced Materials in Department of Biomedical Engineering, with joint appointments in Department of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering; Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science; Department of Chemistry; Department of...
  
  

2007

• Lisa Feldman Barrett
  Lisa Feldman Barrett
  Lisa Feldman Barrett is a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University, where she focuses on the study of emotion. She is director of the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory and is co-director of the Laboratory of Aging and Emotion at Massachusetts General Hospital...
  
  
• Peter Bearman
  Peter Bearman
  Peter Shawn Bearman is an American sociologist. He is Jonathan Cole Professor of the Social Sciences in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University....
  
  
• 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

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
  Gene E. Robinson
  Gene Ezia Robinson is an eminent entomologist who pioneered the application of genomics to the study of social behavior and led the effort to sequence the honey bee genome. Currently, Robinson is the Director of the University of Illinois Bee Research Facility and a professor of entomology...
  
  
• Susan M. Rosenberg
• Leona D. Samson
• Nirao M. Shah
• Krishna V. Shenoy
• Sarah A. Tishkoff
• Alexander J. Travis
• Jin Zhang

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