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National Institutes of Health The National Institutes of Health, commonly referred to as NIH (with each letter pronounced individually), is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research. It was founded in the late ...
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 The National Institutes of Health, commonly referred to as NIH (with each letter pronounced individually), is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research. It was founded in the late ...
common fund, are each worth $500,000 per year, or $2,500,000 for five years.


Recipients


2004

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Larry Abbott Laurence Frederick Abbott"LAURENCE F. ABBOTT CV"
Retrieved on 31 March 2020. (born 1950) is an A ...
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George Q. Daley George Quentin Daley is the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Caroline Shields Walker Professor of Medicine, and Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at Harvard Medical School. He was formerly the Robert A. Stranahan Profess ...
* Homme W. Hellinga * Joseph McCune * Steven L. McKnight * Rob Phillips * Stephen R. Quake *
Chad Mirkin Chad Alexander Mirkin (born November 23, 1963) is an American chemist. He is the George B. Rathmann professor of chemistry, professor of medicine, professor of materials science and engineering, professor of biomedical engineering, and profess ...
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Xiaoliang Sunney Xie Xiaoliang Sunney Xie (; born 1962 in Beijing, China) is a Chinese American biophysicist well known for his contributions to the fields of single-molecule biophysical chemistry, coherent Raman Imaging and single-molecule genomics. Early life He ...


2005

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NIH
* Vicki L. Chandler * Hollis T. Cline *
Leda Cosmides Leda Cosmides (born May 1957) is an American psychologist, who, together with anthropologist husband John Tooby, helped develop the field of evolutionary psychology. Biography Cosmides originally studied biology at Radcliffe College/Harvard Univ ...
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Titia de Lange Titia de Lange (born 11 November 1955, in Rotterdam) is the Director of the Anderson Center for Cancer Research, the Leon Hess professor and the head of Laboratory Cell Biology and Genetics at Rockefeller University. De Lange obtained her Mast ...
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Karl Deisseroth Karl Alexander Deisseroth (born November 18, 1971) is an American scientist. He is the D.H. Chen Professor of Bioengineering and of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University. He is known for creating and developing the technolo ...
* Pehr A.B. Harbury * Erich D. Jarvis
Thomas A. Rando
* Derek J. Smith *
Giulio Tononi Giulio Tononi () is a neuroscientist and psychiatrist who holds the David P. White Chair in Sleep Medicine, as well as a Distinguished Chair in Consciousness Science, at the University of Wisconsin. He is best known for his Integrated Informati ...
* Clare M. Waterman-Storer *
Nathan Wolfe Nathan Daniel Wolfe, Ph.D. (born 24 August 1970) is an American virologist. He was the founder (in 2007) and director of Global Viral and the Lorry I. Lokey Visiting Professor in Human Biology at Stanford University. Career Dr. Wolfe spent over ...
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Junying Yuan Junying Yuan (, born October 3, 1958) is the Elizabeth D. Hay Professor of Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School, best known for her work in cell death. Early in her career, she contributed significant findings to the discovery and characteriza ...


2006

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NIH
* Kwabena A. Boahen *
Arup K. Chakraborty Arup K. Chakraborty is an American engineer, focusing in biophysics, computational modeling and infectious disease, currently the Robert T. Haslam Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and formerly the Warren and Katherine Schlinger D ...
* Lila M. Gierasch *
Rebecca W. Heald Rebecca W. Heald is an American professor of cell and developmental biology. She is currently a Professor in the Department of Molecular & Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley. In May 2019, she was elected to the National Acade ...
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Karla Kirkegaard Karla Kirkegaard (born 1954) is the Violetta L. Horton Research Professor of genetics at the Stanford University School of Medicine. She was the chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology from 2006 to 2010. She is an elected member of ...
* Thomas J. Kodadek *
Cheng Chi Lee Cheng may refer to: Chinese states * Chengjia or Cheng (25–36 AD) * Cheng Han or Cheng (304–338) * Zheng (state), or Cheng in Wade–Giles Places * Chengdu, abbreviated as Cheng * Cheng County, in Gansu, China * Cheng Township, in Malacca, Ma ...
* Evgeny A. Nudler * Gary J. Pielak * David A. Relman * Rosalind A Segal *
James L. Sherley James Sherley is a biological engineer and the founder of Asymmetrex, an adult stem cell research center. He has also conducted research at the Boston Biomedical Research Institute and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Sherley filed a s ...
* Younan Xia


2007

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Lisa Feldman Barrett Lisa Feldman Barrett is a distinguished professor of psychology at Northeastern University, where she focuses on affective science. She is a director of the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory. Along with James Russell, she is the fou ...
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Peter Bearman Peter Shawn Bearman (born 1956) is an American sociologist, notable for his contributions to the fields of adolescent health, research design, structural analysis, textual analysis, oral history and social networks. He is the Jonathan R. Cole Pr ...
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Emery N. Brown Emery Neal Brown (born 1957) is an American statistician, neuroscientist, and anesthesiologist. He is the Warren M. Zapol Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School and at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), and a practicing anesthesio ...
* Thomas R. Clandinin * James J. Collins *
Margaret Gardel Margaret Lise Gardel is an American biophysicist. She is the Horace B. Horton Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Chicago. Education After Gardel earned her bachelor’s degree in physics and mathematics from Brown Unive ...
* Takao K. Hensch *
Marshall S. Horwitz Marshall may refer to: Places Australia * Marshall, Victoria, a suburb of Geelong, Victoria Canada * Marshall, Saskatchewan * The Marshall, a mountain in British Columbia Liberia * Marshall, Liberia Marshall Islands * Marshall Islands, an ...
* Rustem F. Ismagilov * Frances E. Jensen * Mark J. Schnitzer * Gina Turrigiano


2008

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NIH
* James K. Chen, Ph.D.,
Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...
* Ricardo Dolmetsch, Ph.D., Stanford University * James Eberwine, Ph.D.,
University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...
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Joshua M. Epstein Joshua Morris Epstein is Professor of Epidemiology at the New York University College of Global Public Health. Formerly Professor of Emergency Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, with joint appointments in the departments of Applied Mathematic ...
, Ph.D.,
Brookings Institution The Brookings Institution, often stylized as simply Brookings, is an American research group founded in 1916. Located on Think Tank Row in Washington, D.C., the organization conducts research and education in the social sciences, primarily in ec ...
* Bruce A. Hay, Ph.D.,
California Institute of Technology The California Institute of Technology (branded as Caltech or CIT)The university itself only spells its short form as "Caltech"; the institution considers other spellings such a"Cal Tech" and "CalTech" incorrect. The institute is also occasional ...
* Ann Hochschild, Ph.D.,
Harvard Medical School Harvard Medical School (HMS) is the graduate medical school of Harvard University and is located in the Longwood Medical Area of Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1782, HMS is one of the oldest medical schools in the United States and is consi ...
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Charles M. Lieber Charles M. Lieber (born 1959) is an American chemist, a pioneer in nanoscience and nanotechnology. In 2011, Lieber was named the leading chemist in the world for the decade 2000–2010 by Thomson Reuters, based on the impact of his scientific ...
, Ph.D.,
Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...
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Barry London Barry may refer to: People and fictional characters * Barry (name), including lists of people with the given name, nickname or surname, as well as fictional characters with the given name * Dancing Barry, stage name of Barry Richards (born c. 1950 ...
, M.D., Ph.D.,
University of Pittsburgh The University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) is a public state-related research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The university is composed of 17 undergraduate and graduate schools and colleges at its urban Pittsburgh campus, home to the universit ...
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Tom Maniatis Tom Maniatis (born May 8, 1943), is an American professor of molecular and cellular biology. He is a professor at Columbia University, and serves as the Scientific Director and CEO of the New York Genome Center. Education Maniatis received B.A ...
, Ph.D., Harvard University *
Teri W. Odom Teri W. Odom is an American chemist and materials scientist. She is the chair of the chemistry department, the Joan Husting Madden and William H. Madden, Jr. Professor of Chemistry, and a professor of materials science and engineering at Northw ...
, Ph.D.,
Northwestern University Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois. Founded in 1851, Northwestern is the oldest chartered university in Illinois and is ranked among the most prestigious academic institutions in the world. Charte ...
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Hongkun Park Hongkun Park (born 1967 in Seoul) is Mark Hyman Jr. Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Physics at Harvard University. He received his BS in chemistry at Seoul National University in 1990, and his PhD in physical chemistry at Stanford Un ...
, Ph.D., Harvard University *
Aviv Regev Aviv Regev (born July 11, 1971) is a computational biologist and systems biologist and Executive Vice President and Head of Genentech Research and Early Development in Genentech/Roche. She is a core member (on leave) at the Broad Institute of MIT a ...
, Ph.D.,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...
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Broad Institute The Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard (IPA: , pronunciation respelling: ), often referred to as the Broad Institute, is a biomedical and genomic research center located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U ...
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Aravinthan D.T. Samuel ''Aravindhan'' is a 1997 Indian Tamil-language film written and directed by newcomer T. Nagarajan, starring Sarath Kumar, Parthiban, Nagma, Oorvasi, Prakash Raj and Visu in lead and pivotal roles. The film marks the debut of noted music compose ...
, Ph.D., Harvard University * Saeed Tavazoie, Ph.D.,
Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...
* Alice Y. Ting, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology *
Alexander van Oudenaarden Alexander van Oudenaarden (19 March 1970) is a Dutch biophysicist and systems biologist. He is a leading researcher in stem cell biology, specialising in single cell techniques. In 2012 he started as director of the Hubrecht Institute and was a ...
, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology


2009

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NIH
* Ivor J. Benjamin,
University of Utah School of Medicine The University of Utah School of Medicine is located on the upper campus of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah. It was founded in 1905 and is currently the only MD-granting medical school in the state of Utah. History The school began ...
* Ajay Chawla, Stanford University * Chang-Zheng Chen, Stanford University *
Hilde Cheroutre Hilde may refer to: *Hilde (given name) * ''Hilde'' (film), a 2009 German biopic film * MV ''Hilde'', a Kriegsmarine coastal tanker *Tom Hilde (born 1987), Norwegian ski jumper Characters *Hilde (Soulcalibur), a character in the ''Soul'' series ...
,
La Jolla Institute for Immunology La Jolla Institute for Immunology is a non-profit research organization located in La Jolla, California. It is located in UC San Diego’s Research Park. The institute researches immunology and immune system diseases. The institute employs 220 M.D ...
* Markus W. Covert, Stanford University * Joseph M. DeSimone,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States ...
/North Carolina State University * Sylvia M. Evans,
University of California, San Diego The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego or colloquially, UCSD) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in San Diego, California. Established in 1960 near the pre-existing Scripps Insti ...
* Joseph R. Fetcho, Cornell University *
Timothy E. Holy Timothy is a masculine name. It comes from the Greek name ( Timόtheos) meaning "honouring God", "in God's honour", or "honoured by God". Timothy (and its variations) is a common name in several countries. People Given name * Timothy (given name) ...
,
Washington University School of Medicine Washington University School of Medicine (WUSM) is the medical school of Washington University in St. Louis in St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1891, the School of Medicine has 1,260 students, 604 of which are pursuing a medical degree with or ...
*
Tannishtha Reya Tannishtha Reya is an Indian-born American cell and developmental biologist working in cancer research at the University of California San Diego. She has received numerous awards, including an NIH Director's Pioneer Award in 2009 and an NCI Outs ...
, Duke University *
Gene E. Robinson Gene Ezia Robinson (born January 9, 1955) is an American entomologist, Director of the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology and National Academy of Sciences member. He pioneered the application of genomics to the study of social behavior ...
,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Univ ...
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Susan M. Rosenberg Susan M. Rosenberg is a cancer research scientist and the Ben F. Love Chair in Cancer Research at Baylor College of Medicine. Her research focuses on the processes of DNA mutations, damage, and repair. Education Rosenberg earned a bachelor's deg ...
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Baylor College of Medicine Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) is a medical school and research center in Houston, Texas, within the Texas Medical Center, the world's largest medical center. BCM is composed of four academic components: the School of Medicine, the Graduate Sc ...
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Leona D. Samson Leona D. Samson is the Uncas and Helen Whitaker Professor and American Cancer Society Research Professor of Biological Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she served as the Director of the Center for Environmental Heal ...
, Massachusetts Institute of Technology * Nirao M. Shah,
University of California, San Francisco The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is a public land-grant research university in San Francisco, California. It is part of the University of California system and is dedicated entirely to health science and life science. It cond ...
* Krishna V. Shenoy, Stanford University * Sarah A. Tishkoff, University of Pennsylvania * Alexander J. Travis, Cornell University State College of Veterinary Medicine * Jin Zhang,
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (JHUSOM) is the medical school of Johns Hopkins University, a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1893, the School of Medicine shares a campus with the Johns Hopkins Hospi ...


2010

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NIH
* Carlos F. Barbas III, Ph.D.,
Scripps Research Scripps Research, previously known as The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), is a nonprofit American medical research facility that focuses on research and education in the biomedical sciences. Headquartered in San Diego, California, the institu ...
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Pamela J. Bjorkman Pamela Jane Bjorkman NAS, AAAS (also spelled Pamela J. Björkman born 1956 in Portland, Oregon) is an American biochemist. She is the David Baltimore Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering at the California Institute of Technology (Calte ...
, 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 School of Medicine The Yale School of Medicine is the graduate medical school at Yale University, a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. It was founded in 1810 as the Medical Institution of Yale College and formally opened in 1813. The primary te ...
* J. Keith Joung, M.D., Ph.D.,
Massachusetts General Hospital Massachusetts General Hospital (Mass General or MGH) is the original and largest teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School located in the West End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It is the third oldest general hospital in the United Stat ...
/ Harvard Medical School *
David Kleinfeld David (; , "beloved one") (traditional spelling), , ''Dāwūd''; grc-koi, Δαυΐδ, Dauíd; la, Davidus, David; gez , ዳዊት, ''Dawit''; xcl, Դաւիթ, ''Dawitʿ''; cu, Давíдъ, ''Davidŭ''; possibly meaning "beloved one". w ...
, Ph.D.,
University of California, San Diego The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego or colloquially, UCSD) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in San Diego, California. Established in 1960 near the pre-existing Scripps Insti ...
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Haifan Lin Haifan Lin () is a Chinese-born American stem cell biologist. He is the Eugene Higgins Chair Professor of Cell Biology at Yale University and the founding Director of the Yale Stem Cell Center. He previously founded and directed the Stem Cell Res ...
, 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 Joseph is a common male given name, derived from the Hebrew Yosef (יוֹסֵף). "Joseph" is used, along with "Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the mo ...
, Ph.D.,
Institute for Systems Biology Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) is a non-profit research institution located in Seattle, Washington, United States. ISB concentrates on systems biology, the study of relationships and interactions between various parts of biological systems, ...
* Miguel A. L. Nicolelis, M.D., Ph.D. , Duke University *
Lalita Ramakrishnan Lalita Ramakrishnan (born 1959) is an American microbiologist who is known for her contributions to the understanding of the biological mechanism of tuberculosis. she serves as a professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the Universi ...
, M.D., Ph.D., University of Washington * Lorna W. Role, Ph.D.,
Stony Brook University Stony Brook University (SBU), officially the State University of New York at Stony Brook, is a public research university in Stony Brook, New York. Along with the University at Buffalo, it is one of the State University of New York system's ...
*
Michael L. Roukes Michael may refer to: People * Michael (given name), a given name * Michael (surname), including a list of people with the surname Michael Given name "Michael" * Michael (archangel), ''first'' of God's archangels in the Jewish, Christian and ...
, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology *
Ram Samudrala Ram Samudrala is a professor of computational biology and bioinformatics at the University at Buffalo, United States. He researches protein folding, structure, function, interaction, design, and evolution. Education and career Samudrala received ...
, Ph.D., University of Washington *
Bruce A. Yankner The English language name Bruce arrived in Scotland with the Normans, from the place name Brix, Manche in Normandy, France, meaning "the willowlands". Initially promulgated via the descendants of king Robert the Bruce (1274−1329), it has been a ...
, M.D., Ph.D., Harvard Medical School


2011

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Utpal Banerjee Utpal Banerjee (born 1957) is a distinguished professor of the department of molecular, cell and developmental biology at UCLA. He obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from St. Stephen's College, Delhi University, India and obtai ...
, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles *
Brenda L. Bass Brenda L. Bass is a Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Utah who holds the H.A. and Edna Benning Endowed Chair. She is also an adjunct professor of human genetics and an investigator at the Huntsman Cancer Institute. Her ...
, Ph.D., University of Utah *
Jean Bennett Jean Bennett is the F. M. Kirby Professor of Ophthalmology in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on gene therapy for retinal diseases. Her laboratory developed the first FDA approved gene ther ...
, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania * William M. Clemons, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology *
Florian Engert Florian may refer to: People * Florian (name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the given name or surname * Florian, Roman emperor in 276 AD * Saint Florian (250 – c. 304 AD), patron saint of Poland and Upper Austria, al ...
, 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 Thanos is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He was created by writer-artist Jim Starlin, and first appeared in '' The Invincible Iron Man'' #55 (cover date February 1973). An Eternal– Deviant warlor ...
, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology * Andreas S. Tolias, Ph.D. , Baylor College of Medicine *
Mehmet Fatih Yanik Mehmed (modern Turkish: Mehmet) is the most common Bosnian and Turkish form of the Arabic name Muhammad ( ar, محمد) (''Muhammed'' and ''Muhammet'' are also used, though considerably less) and gains its significance from being the name of Muha ...
, Ph.D. , Massachusetts Institute of Technology


2012

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NIH
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Anne Brunet Anne Brunet (born on November 8) is the Michele and Timothy Barakett Endowed Professor and the co-director of the Paul F. Glenn Laboratories for the Biology of Aging at Stanford University School of Medicine. Her lab studies mechanisms of aging a ...
, Ph.D., Stanford University * Edward Marcotte, Ph.D.,
University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,075 ...
* Hidde Ploegh, Ph.D.,
Whitehead Institute Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research is a non-profit research institute located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States that is dedicated to improving human health through basic biomedical research. It was founded as a fiscally indepen ...
* Christina Smolke, Ph.D., Stanford University * Yi Tang, Ph.D., University of California * Doris Ying Tsao, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, *
Lihong V. Wang Lihong V. Wang () is the Bren Professor of Medical Engineering and Electrical Engineering at the Andrew and Peggy Cherng Department of Medical Engineering at California Institute of Technology and was formerly the Gene K. Beare Distinguished Prof ...
, Ph.D.,
Washington University in St. Louis Washington University in St. Louis (WashU or WUSTL) is a private research university with its main campus in St. Louis County, and Clayton, Missouri. Founded in 1853, the university is named after George Washington. Washington University is r ...
* Chao-Ting Wu, Ph.D., Harvard University Medical School * Gary Yellen, Ph.D., Harvard University Medical School *
Feng Zhang Feng Zhang (; born October 22, 1981) is a Chinese-American biochemist. Zhang currently holds the James and Patricia Poitras Professorship in Neuroscience at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research and in the departments of Brain and Cognitive ...
, Ph.D.,
Broad Institute The Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard (IPA: , pronunciation respelling: ), often referred to as the Broad Institute, is a biomedical and genomic research center located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U ...


2013

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NIH
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Amy Arnsten Amy F.T. Arnsten is an American neuroscientist. She is the Albert E. Kent Professor of Neuroscience and Professor of Psychology as well as a member of the Kavli Institute of Neuroscience at Yale University. Research She studies the unique mole ...
, Ph.D., Yale University, New Haven, CT * Edward S. Boyden, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA *
Vadim N. Gladyshev Vadim N. Gladyshev is a professor of medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, who specializes in antioxidant biology. He is known for his characterization of the human selenoproteome. He is also known for his work on th ...
, Ph.D.,
Brigham and Women's Hospital Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) is the second largest teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School and the largest hospital in the Longwood Medical and Academic Area, Longwood Medical Area in Boston, Massachusetts. Along with Massachusetts Gener ...
and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA *
Baljit S. Khakh Baljit Singh Khakh is a British neuroscientist and Professor of Physiology and Neurobiology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Education and career Baljit Khakh completed his Ph.D. at University of Cambridge in 1995 in the laboratory ...
, Ph.D., University of California Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine, CA *
Michael Z. Lin Michael Z. Lin (born 1973 in Taipei, Taiwan) is a Taiwanese-American biochemist and bioengineer. He is an Associate Professor of Neurobiology and Bioengineering at Stanford University. He is best known for his work on engineering optically and che ...
, M.D., Ph.D., Stanford University, Stanford, CA *
Jay Shendure Jay Shendure is an American scientist and human geneticist at the University of Washington. He is a professor in the Department of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine and an Affiliate Investigator in the Human Biolo ...
, M.D., Ph.D., University of Washington, Seattle, WA *
Natalia A. Trayanova Natalia Trayanova FAHA FHRS is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the Department of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. She directs the Alliance for Cardiovascular Diagnostic and Treatment Innovation Early life and education Trayano ...
, 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 Xiaoliang Sunney Xie (; born 1962 in Beijing, China) is a Chinese American biophysicist well known for his contributions to the fields of single-molecule biophysical chemistry, coherent Raman Imaging and single-molecule genomics. Early life He ...
, Ph.D., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA *
Rafael Yuste Rafael Yuste (born April 25, 1963 in Madrid) is a Spanish-American neurobiologist and one of the initiators of the BRAIN Initiative announced in 2013. He is currently a professor at Columbia University. Biography Yuste's interest in neuroscience ...
, M.D., Ph.D., Columbia University, New York, NY * Mark J Zylka, Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC


2014

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NIH
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Jayakrishna Ambati Jayakrishna was an Indian film producer known for his works in Telugu cinema and few Tamil films. He produced films such as Mana Voori Pandavulu 1978, which won the Filmfare Award for Best Film – Telugu for that year. His other hits include, M ...
, 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 Denise may refer to: * Denise (given name), people with the given name ''Denise'' * Denise (computer chip), a video graphics chip from the Amiga computer * "Denise" (song), a 1963 song by Randy & the Rainbows * Denise, Mato Grosso, a municipalit ...
, Ph.D., University of California Santa Barbara * Carl D. Novina, M.D., Ph.D., Dana-Farber Cancer Institute *
Amy Palmer Amy Marie Palmer (born April 20, 1975, in Tooele, Utah) is a retired female hammer thrower from the United States. Her personal best throw was 68.28 metres, achieved on April 29, 2000, in Philadelphia. She was the bronze medalist at the Athletics ...
, Ph.D., University of Colorado *
Dana Pe'er Dana Pe'er (born 1971), Chair and Professor in Computational and Systems Biology Program at Sloan Kettering Institute is a researcher in computational systems biology. A Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator since 2021, she was prev ...
, 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

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2015 NIH
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Giovanni Bosco John Melchior Bosco ( it, Giovanni Melchiorre Bosco; pms, Gioann Melchior Bòsch; 16 August 181531 January 1888), popularly known as Don Bosco , was an Italian Catholic priest, educator, writer and saint of the 19th century. While working ...
, 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 Washington University School of Medicine (WUSM) is the medical school of Washington University in St. Louis in St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1891, the School of Medicine has 1,260 students, 604 of which are pursuing a medical degree with or ...
* 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 The Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience (MPFI), is a research facility located in Jupiter, Florida. Its research focuses on brain function and neural circuits, using techniques to visualize microscopic molecular processes. It is the fir ...
* Sheng Zhong, University of California San Diego


2016

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NIH
* Kristin Baldwin, The Scripps Research Institute * Bradley Bernstein, Massachusetts General Hospital and Broad Institute *
Michael Fischbach Michael Andrew Fischbach (born November 3, 1980) is an American chemist, microbiologist, and geneticist. He is an associate professor of Bioengineering and ChEM-H Faculty Fellow at Stanford University and a Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator. ...
, University of California, San Francisco * Uri Hasson, Princeton University *
Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte (born December 12, 1960, in Hellín, Albacete) is a Spanish biochemist and developmental biologist. He is a professor in the Gene Expression Laboratories at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Cal ...
, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies *
Nancy Kanwisher Nancy Gail Kanwisher FBA (born 1958) is the Ellen Swallow Richards Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an investigator at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research. She s ...
, 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

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Hongjie Dai Hongjie Dai (; born 2 May 1966 in Shaoyang, China). is a Chinese-American nanotechnologist and applied physicist. He is the J.G. Jackson & C.J. Wood Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University.. A leading figure in the study of carbon nanot ...
, Stanford University * Amit Etkin, Stanford University *
Howard A. Fine Howard is an English-language given name originating from Old French Huard (or Houard) from a Germanic source similar to Old High German ''*Hugihard'' "heart-brave", or ''*Hoh-ward'', literally "high defender; chief guardian". It is also probabl ...
, Weill Cornell College of Medicine *
Charles M. Lieber Charles M. Lieber (born 1959) is an American chemist, a pioneer in nanoscience and nanotechnology. In 2011, Lieber was named the leading chemist in the world for the decade 2000–2010 by Thomson Reuters, based on the impact of his scientific ...
, 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 Kay M. Tye (born c. 1981) is an American neuroscientist and professor and Wylie Vale Chair in the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences. Her research has focused on using optogenetics to identify connections in the brain that are involved in inn ...
, MIT *
Feng Zhang Feng Zhang (; born October 22, 1981) is a Chinese-American biochemist. Zhang currently holds the James and Patricia Poitras Professorship in Neuroscience at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research and in the departments of Brain and Cognitive ...
, Broad Institute, MIT


2018

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* Janelle S. Ayres,
Salk Institute The Salk Institute for Biological Studies is a scientific research institute located in the La Jolla community of San Diego, California, U.S. The independent, non-profit institute was founded in 1960 by Jonas Salk, the developer of the polio vacci ...
* Daniel A. Colón-Ramos, Yale University School of Medicine * Christina Curtis, Stanford University School of Medicine * Viviana Gradinaru, Caltech *
Jonathan Kipnis } Jonathan Kipnis is a neuroscientist, immunologist, and professor of pathology and immunology at the Washington University School of Medicine. His lab studies interactions between the immune system and nervous system. He is best known for his lab ...
, University of Virginia School of Medicine * Hyungbae Kwon, Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience *
Michelle Monje Michelle Leigh Monje-Deisseroth is a neuroscientist and neuro-oncologist. She is a professor of neurology at Stanford University and an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She develops new treatments for diffuse intrinsic ponti ...
, Stanford University * Gabriel D. Victora, Rockefeller University *
Amy J. Wagers Amy J. Wagers is the Forst Family Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology at Harvard University and Harvard Medical School, an investigator in islet cell and regenerative biology at the Joslin Diabetes Center, and principal faculty of th ...
, Harvard Medical School *
Peng Yin Peng may refer to: * Peng (surname) (彭), a Chinese name * Peng (state) (大彭), a state during the late Shang dynasty * Peng (mythology) (鵬), a legendary Chinese creature * ''Peng!'', 1992 album by Stereolab * ''PENG!'', a 2005 comic * P.Eng. ...
, Harvard University


2019

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* Mark Andermann,
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in Boston, Massachusetts is a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. It was formed out of the 1996 merger of Beth Israel Hospital (founded in 1916) and New England Deaconess Hospital (founded ...
, Harvard Medical School * James Eberwine,
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine The Perelman School of Medicine, commonly known as Penn Med, is the medical school of the University of Pennsylvania, a private research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1765, the Perelman School of Medicine is the oldest medi ...
* Jennifer H. Elisseeff, Johns Hopkins University * Valentina Greco, Yale University * Christophe Herman,
Baylor College of Medicine Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) is a medical school and research center in Houston, Texas, within the Texas Medical Center, the world's largest medical center. BCM is composed of four academic components: the School of Medicine, the Graduate Sc ...
*
Sun Hur Sun Hur is a South Korean-born scientist. She is an Oscar M. Schloss Professor at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital and an investigator in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Early life and education Hur was born and raised i ...
, Boston Children’s Hospital * Rob Knight, University of California San Diego * Jin Hyung Lee, Stanford University * Marina R. Picciotto, Yale University * Hidde Ploegh, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School * Simon Scheuring,
Weill Cornell Medicine The Joan & Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University is Cornell University's biomedical research unit and medical school located in Upper East Side, Manhattan, New York City, New York. Weill Cornell Medicine is affiliated with NewY ...


2020

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Annelise E. Barron Anneliese (, ) is a female given name of either German language, German, Dutch language, Dutch or Nordic countries, Nordic origin. It is a compound form of "Anna (given name), Anna" and "Liese", a short form of "Elizabeth (given name), Elisabeth". ...
, Stanford University, Schools of Medicine and of Engineering *
Kathleen Collins Kathleen Collins (March 18, 1942 – September 18, 1988) (also known as Kathleen Conwell, Kathleen Conwell Collins or Kathleen Collins Prettyman) was an African-American poet, playwright, writer, filmmaker, director, civil rights activist, and ...
, University of California at Berkeley * Christopher D. Harvey, Harvard Medical School * Peter S. Kim, Stanford University * Brian Litt, University of Pennsylvania * Shu-Bing Qian, Cornell University *
Susan M. Rosenberg Susan M. Rosenberg is a cancer research scientist and the Ben F. Love Chair in Cancer Research at Baylor College of Medicine. Her research focuses on the processes of DNA mutations, damage, and repair. Education Rosenberg earned a bachelor's deg ...
, Baylor College of Medicine * John Schoggins, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center * David Veesler,
University of Washington School of Medicine The University of Washington School of Medicine (UWSOM) is a large public medical school in the northwest United States, located in Seattle and affiliated with the University of Washington. According to ''U.S. News & World Report''s 2022 Best Grad ...
*
Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz Magdalena may refer to: * Magdalena (given name), a given name derived from Mary Magdalene (including a list of people with the name) Entertainment * Magdalena (comics), an American comic book superheroine * ''Magdalena'' (film), a 1920 Czecho ...
, California Institute of Technology and University of Cambridge


See also

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List of medicine awards This list of medicine awards is an index to articles about notable awards for contributions to medicine, the science and practice of establishing the diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, and prevention of disease. The list is organized by region and ...


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