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NIH Director’s Pioneer Award

NIH Director's Pioneer Award

First Annual NIH Director’s
Pioneer Award Symposium

Thursday, September 29, 2005
Masur Auditorium
Clinical Center (Building 10)
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland

Agenda

8:15 a.m. Introductory Remarks – Elias Zerhouni, M.D., NIH and Jeremy Berg, Ph.D., NIGMS, NIH
8:30 a.m. Larry Abbott, Ph.D., Columbia University (Mathematical Modeling of Neural Systems)
8:50 a.m. George Q. Daley, M.D., Ph.D., Children’s Hospital Boston/Harvard Stem Cell Institute (Stem Cell Biology)
9:10 a.m. Homme W. Hellinga, Ph.D., Duke University Medical Center (Protein Design and Synthetic Biology)
9:30 a.m. Joseph (Mike) McCune, M.D., Ph.D., Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology/University of California, San Francisco (HIV Pathogenesis)
9:50 a.m. Break
10:20a.m. Steven L. McKnight, Ph.D., UT Southwestern Medical Center (Biochemistry)
10:40 a.m. Chad Mirkin, Ph.D., Northwestern University (Nanotechnology and Chemistry)
11:00 a.m. Announcement of 2005 Pioneer Award Recipients – Elias Zerhouni, M.D.
11:30 a.m. Lunch
1:00 p.m. Rob Phillips, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology (Applied Physics)
1:20 p.m. Stephen R. Quake, D.Phil., Stanford University (Bioengineering and Biophysics)
1:40 p.m. Sunney Xie, Ph.D., Harvard University (Cellular Imaging and Single Molecule Approach to Biology)
2:00 p.m. Roundtable Discussion – 2004 Awardees
Nora D. Volkow, M.D., NIDA, NIH, Moderator
3:00 p.m. Reception

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