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First NIH Director's Pioneer Award Recipients Named
Institute: Office of the Director (OD)
NIH has selected the first recipients of the NIH Director's Pioneer Award, a program designed to support individual scientists and thinkers with highly innovative ideas and approaches to contemporary challenges in biomedical research. A central component of the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research, the Director's Pioneer Award was established in January 2004 to encourage exceptional researchers and thinkers from multiple disciplines to conduct high-risk, high-impact research related to the improvement of human health.
The NIH will provide $500,000 in direct costs per year for five years to each Pioneer Award recipient, allowing them the time and resources to test far-ranging ideas with the potential to make extraordinary contributions to medical research.
The awardees represent a broad spectrum of scientific disciplines including quantitative and mathematical biology, pathogenesis, epidemiology and translational clinical research, molecular and cellular biology, integrative physiology, instrumentation, and bioengineering. They are: - Larry Abbott, Ph.D., Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
- George Daley, M.D., Ph.D., Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
- Homme Hellinga, Ph.D., Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
- Joseph McCune, M.D., Ph.D., J. David Gladstone Institutes, San Francisco, California
- Steven McKnight, Ph.D., University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
- Chad Mirkin, Ph.D., Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
- Rob Phillips, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California
- Stephen Quake, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California
- Sunney Xie, Ph.D., Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
The NIH Roadmap for Medical Research is a series of far-reaching initiatives designed to transform the Nation's medical research capabilities and speed the movement of scientific discoveries from the bench to the bedside. It provides a framework of the priorities the NIH must address in order to optimize its entire research portfolio and lays out a vision for a more efficient and productive system of medical research.Next Steps
For more information on the NIH Director's Pioneer Award Program, including awardee information, visit http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/highrisk/index.asp. For additional information about the NIH Roadmap visit http://nihroadmap.nih.gov. For news and information about the NIH visit www.nih.gov.
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