First Annual NIH Director's Pioneer Award Symposium

Thursday, September 29, 2005

Save the date for an exciting symposium featuring individual talks and a roundtable discussion by the 2004 Pioneer Award recipients as well as the announcement of the 2005 awardees.

The NIH Director's Pioneer Award program--a key component of the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research--supports scientists of exceptional creativity who propose pioneering approaches to major challenges in biomedical research. 

The event will be held in Masur Auditorium of the Clinical Center (Building 10) on the NIH campus in Bethesda, MD. The symposium will begin at 8:15 a.m. with remarks by NIH Director Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D., and end at 3:00 p.m. Attendance is free, and no registration is required.

The symposium agenda is at http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/pioneer/symposium2005.