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

• 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

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

References

1. "Pioneer Award Program". National Institutes of Health. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
2. 2015 Pioneer Award Recipients
3. 2016 Pioneer Award Recipients

External links

• Official website