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 award is direct costs of $500,000 per year, or $2,500,000 for five years.
Recipients
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
- Leda Cosmides
- Titia de Lange
- Karl Deisseroth
- Pehr A.B. Harbury
- 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