National Institutes of Health
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research. It was founded in 1887 and is part of the United States Department of Health and Human Service ...
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 (NIH) is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research. It was founded in 1887 and is part of the United States Department of Health and Human Service ...
common fund, are each worth $500,000 per year, or $2,500,000 for five years.
Recipients
2004
Source
NIH*
Larry Abbott
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George Q. Daley
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Homme W. Hellinga
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Joseph McCune
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Steven L. McKnight
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Rob Phillips
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Stephen R. Quake
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Chad Mirkin
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Xiaoliang Sunney Xie
2005
Source
NIH*
Vicki L. Chandler
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Hollis T. Cline
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Leda Cosmides
*
Titia de Lange
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Karl Deisseroth
Karl Alexander Deisseroth (born November 18, 1971) is an American scientist. He is the Chen Din Hwa, D.H. Chen Foundation Professor of Bioengineering and of psychiatry and Behavioural sciences, behavioral sciences at Stanford University.
He is ...
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Pehr A.B. Harbury
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Erich D. JarvisThomas A. Rando*
Derek J. Smith
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Giulio Tononi
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Clare M. Waterman-Storer
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Nathan Wolfe
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Junying Yuan
2006
Source
NIH*
Kwabena A. Boahen
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Arup K. Chakraborty
*
Lila M. Gierasch
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Rebecca W. Heald
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Karla Kirkegaard
*
Thomas J. Kodadek
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Cheng Chi Lee
*
Evgeny A. Nudler
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Gary J. Pielak
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David A. Relman
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Rosalind A Segal
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James L. Sherley
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Younan Xia
2007
Source
NIH*
Lisa Feldman Barrett
Lisa Feldman Barrett is a Canadian-American psychologist. She is a University Distinguished Professor of psychology at Northeastern University, where she focuses on affective science and co-directs the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Labora ...
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Peter Bearman
*
Emery N. Brown
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Thomas R. Clandinin
*
James J. Collins
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Margaret Gardel
*
Takao K. Hensch
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Marshall S. Horwitz
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Rustem F. Ismagilov
*
Frances E. Jensen
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Mark J. Schnitzer
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Gina Turrigiano
2008
Source
NIH*
James K. Chen, Ph.D.,
Stanford University
Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...
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Ricardo Dolmetsch, Ph.D., Stanford University
*
James Eberwine, Ph.D.,
University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania (Penn or UPenn) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. One of nine colonial colleges, it was chartered in 1755 through the efforts of f ...
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Joshua M. Epstein, Ph.D.,
Brookings Institution
The Brookings Institution, often stylized as Brookings, is an American think tank that conducts research and education in the social sciences, primarily in economics (and tax policy), metropolitan policy, governance, foreign policy, global econo ...
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Bruce A. Hay, Ph.D.,
California Institute of Technology
The California Institute of Technology (branded as Caltech) is a private research university in Pasadena, California, United States. The university is responsible for many modern scientific advancements and is among a small group of institutes ...
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Ann Hochschild, Ph.D.,
Harvard Medical School
Harvard Medical School (HMS) is the medical school of Harvard University and is located in the Longwood Medical and Academic Area, Longwood Medical Area in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1782, HMS is the third oldest medical school in the Un ...
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Charles M. Lieber, Ph.D.,
Harvard University
Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...
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Barry London, M.D., Ph.D.,
University of Pittsburgh
The University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) is a Commonwealth System of Higher Education, state-related research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The university is composed of seventeen undergraduate and graduate schools and colle ...
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Tom Maniatis, Ph.D., Harvard University
*
Teri W. Odom, Ph.D.,
Northwestern University
Northwestern University (NU) is a Private university, private research university in Evanston, Illinois, United States. Established in 1851 to serve the historic Northwest Territory, it is the oldest University charter, chartered university in ...
*
Hongkun Park, Ph.D., Harvard University
*
Aviv Regev
Aviv Regev (Hebrew language, Hebrew: אביב רגב; born 11 July 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 membe ...
, Ph.D.,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a Private university, private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of moder ...
/
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, United States. The institu ...
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Aravinthan D.T. Samuel, Ph.D., Harvard University
*
Saeed Tavazoie, Ph.D.,
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private university, private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial ...
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Alice Y. Ting, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
*
Alexander van Oudenaarden, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2009
Source
NIH*
Ivor J. Benjamin,
University of Utah School of Medicine
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Ajay Chawla, Stanford University
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Chang-Zheng Chen, Stanford University
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Hilde Cheroutre,
La Jolla Institute for Immunology
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Markus W. Covert, Stanford University
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Joseph M. DeSimone,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC, UNC–Chapel Hill, or simply Carolina) is a public university, public research university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States. Chartered in 1789, the university first began enrolli ...
/North Carolina State University
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Sylvia M. Evans,
University of California, San Diego
The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego in communications material, formerly and colloquially UCSD) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in San Diego, California, United States. Es ...
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Joseph R. Fetcho, Cornell University
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Timothy E. Holy,
Washington University School of Medicine
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Tannishtha Reya, Duke University
*
Gene E. Robinson,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
*
Susan M. Rosenberg,
Baylor College of Medicine
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Leona D. Samson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
*
Nirao M. Shah,
University of California, San Francisco
The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in San Francisco, California, United States. It is part of the University of California system and is dedic ...
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Krishna V. Shenoy, Stanford University
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Sarah A. Tishkoff, University of Pennsylvania
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Alexander J. Travis,
Cornell University State College of Veterinary Medicine
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Jin Zhang,
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
2010
Source
NIH*
Carlos F. Barbas III, Ph.D.,
Scripps Research
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Pamela J. Bjorkman, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
*
Valentin Dragoi, Ph.D., University of Texas, Health Science Center at Houston
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Stephen W. Fesik, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
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Tamas L. Horvath, D.V.M., Ph.D.,
Yale School of Medicine
The Yale School of Medicine is the medical school of 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. It is the sixth-oldest m ...
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J. Keith Joung, M.D., Ph.D.,
Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School
*
David Kleinfeld, Ph.D.,
University of California, San Diego
The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego in communications material, formerly and colloquially UCSD) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in San Diego, California, United States. Es ...
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Haifan Lin, Ph.D., Yale University
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Jun O. Liu, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
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Andres Villu Maricq, M.D., Ph.D., University of Utah
*
Joseph H. Nadeau, 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, ...
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Miguel A. L. Nicolelis, M.D., Ph.D. , Duke University
*
Lalita Ramakrishnan, 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 university, public research university in Stony Brook, New York, United States, on Long Island. Along with the University at Buffalo, it is on ...
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Michael L. Roukes, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
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Ram Samudrala, Ph.D., University of Washington
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Bruce A. Yankner, M.D., Ph.D., Harvard Medical School
2011
Source
NIH*
Utpal Banerjee, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
*
Brenda L. Bass, Ph.D., University of Utah
*
Jean Bennett, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
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William M. Clemons, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
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Florian Engert, Ph.D., Harvard University
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Andrew P. Feinberg, M.D., M.P.H., Johns Hopkins University
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James E.K. Hildreth, M.D., Ph.D., University of California, Davis
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Tao Pan, Ph.D., University of Chicago
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Sharad Ramanathan, Ph.D., Harvard University
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David S. Schneider, Ph.D., Stanford University
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Thanos Siapas, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
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Andreas S. Tolias, Ph.D. , Baylor College of Medicine
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Mehmet Fatih Yanik, Ph.D. , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2012
Source
NIH*
Anne Brunet, 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 university, public research university in Austin, Texas, United States. Founded in 1883, it is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. With 53,082 stud ...
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Hidde Ploegh, Ph.D.,
Whitehead Institute
*
Christina Smolke, Ph.D., Stanford University
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Yi Tang, Ph.D., University of California
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Doris Ying Tsao, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology,
*
Lihong V. Wang, Ph.D.,
Washington University in St. Louis
*
Chao-Ting Wu, Ph.D., Harvard University Medical School
*
Gary Yellen, Ph.D., Harvard University Medical School
*
Feng Zhang, 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, United States. The institu ...
2013
Source
NIH*
Amy Arnsten, Ph.D., Yale University, New Haven, CT
*
Edward S. Boyden, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA
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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
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Michael Z. Lin, M.D., Ph.D., Stanford University, Stanford, CA
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Jay Shendure, M.D., Ph.D., University of Washington, Seattle, WA
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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
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Xiaoliang Sunney Xie, Ph.D., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
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Rafael Yuste, M.D., Ph.D., Columbia University, New York, NY
*
Mark J Zylka, Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
2014
Source
NIH*
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
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Donna L. Spiegelman, Sc.D., Harvard School of Public Health
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Sean Wu, M.D., Ph.D., Stanford University
2015
Source
2015 NIH
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Giovanni Bosco, Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine
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Jeffery S. Cox, University of California San Francisco
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Matthew David Disney, The Scripps Research Institute
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Zemer Gitai, Princeton University
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Jonathon Howard, Yale University
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Craig Montell, University of California Santa Barbara
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Coleen T. Murphy, Princeton University
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Gwendalyn J. Randolph,
Washington University School of Medicine
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Steven J. Schiff, The Pennsylvania State University
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Hao Wu, Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
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Tony Wyss-Coray,
Stanford University School of Medicine and VA Palo Alto
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Ryohei Yasuda,
Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience
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Sheng Zhong, University of California San Diego
2016
Source
NIH
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Kristin Baldwin, The Scripps Research Institute
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Bradley Bernstein, Massachusetts General Hospital and Broad Institute
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Michael Fischbach, University of California, San Francisco
*
Uri Hasson, Princeton University
*
Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
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Nancy Kanwisher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Stephen D. Liberles, Harvard Medical School
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Christine Mayr, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
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Joshua D. Rabinowitz, Princeton University
*Meng Wang, Baylor College of Medicine
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Sing Sing Way, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
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Seok-Hyun "Andy" Yun, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
2017
Source
NIH*
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
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David A. Sinclair, Harvard Medical School
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Justin L. Sonnenburg, Stanford University
*
Kay M. Tye, MIT
*
Feng Zhang, Broad Institute, MIT
2018
Source
NIH*
Janelle S. Ayres,
Salk Institute
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Daniel A. Colón-Ramos, Yale University School of Medicine
*
Christina Curtis, Stanford University School of Medicine
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Viviana Gradinaru, Caltech
*
Jonathan Kipnis,
University of Virginia School of Medicine
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Hyungbae Kwon, Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience
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Michelle Monje, Stanford University
*
Gabriel D. Victora, Rockefeller University
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Amy J. Wagers, Harvard Medical School
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Peng Yin, Harvard University
2019
Source
NIH*
Mark Andermann,
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School
*
James Eberwine,
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
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Jennifer H. Elisseeff, Johns Hopkins University
*
Valentina Greco, Yale University
*
Christophe Herman,
Baylor College of Medicine
*
Sun Hur,
Boston Children’s Hospital
Boston Children's Hospital (formerly known as Children's Hospital Boston until 2013) is the main pediatric training and research hospital of Harvard Medical School, Harvard University. It is a nationally ranked, freestanding acute care Pediatric ...
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Rob Knight, University of California San Diego
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Jin Hyung Lee, Stanford University
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Marina R. Picciotto, Yale University
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Hidde Ploegh, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
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Simon Scheuring,
Weill Cornell Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine (; officially Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University), originally Cornell University Medical College, is the medical school of Cornell University, located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in Ne ...
2020
Source
NIH*
Annelise E. Barron, Stanford University, Schools of Medicine and of Engineering
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Kathleen Collins, University of California at Berkeley
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Christopher D. Harvey, Harvard Medical School
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Peter S. Kim, Stanford University
*
Brian Litt, University of Pennsylvania
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Shu-Bing Qian, Cornell University
*
Susan M. Rosenberg, Baylor College of Medicine
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John Schoggins, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
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David Veesler,
University of Washington School of Medicine
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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, California Institute of Technology and University of Cambridge
See also
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List of medicine awards
References
External links
Official website
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National Institutes of Health
American science and technology awards
Medicine awards
Awards established in 2004