NIH Director’s Pioneer Award

Science News About Pioneer Awardees

2009

• Tracking deadly viruses' spread from animals to humans
  January 16, 2009
  Pandemics can be prevented before they're spread globally, says Dr. Nathan Wolfe.
• Novel technique changes lymph node biopsy, reduces radiation exposure in breast cancer patients
  January 13, 2009
  Information obtained from a new application of photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is worth its weight in gold to breast cancer patients.
• Synthetic HDL: A new weapon to fight cholesterol problems
  January 9, 2009
  Buttery Christmas cookies, eggnog, juicy beef roast, rich gravy and creamy New York-style cheesecake. Happy holiday food unfortunately can send blood cholesterol levels sky high.

2008

• Science magazine's breakthrough of the year article featuring cellular reprogramming achievements by George Daley , December 19, 2008
• News release on Cell article by James Collins , November 14, 2008
• News release on Nature article by Rustem Ismagilov , November 2, 2008
• Article on Sunney Xie in Chemical & Engineering News , October 20, 2008
• News release on Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences article by Stephen Quake , October 8, 2008
• News release on PLoS ONE article by David Relman , August 25, 2008
• Article on Chad Mirkin in Chemical & Engineering News , August 7, 2008
• Article on George Daley in HarvardScience , August 7, 2008
• News release on Science article by Derek Smith , April 16, 2008
• News release on PLoS ONE article by Erich Jarvis , March 11, 2008
• News release on Science article by George Daley , February 21, 2008
• News release on Nature article by Chad Mirkin , January 31, 2008
• News release on Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences article by Evgeny Nudler , January 22, 2008
• News release on Nature neuroscience article by Giulio Tononi , January 20, 2008

2007

• News release on Nature article by George Daley , December 23, 2007
• Profile of Junying Yuan in the Journal of Cell Biology, October 22, 2007 (Also available in PDF, 2 pages)
• News release on Science article by Thomas Rando , August 9, 2007
• News release on Science article by Karl Deisseroth , July 5, 2007
• Article featuring Sunney Xie’s Science paper in Chemical & Engineering News , June 4, 2007
• News release on proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences article by Giulio Tononi , April 30, 2007
• Article on Kwabena Boahen in The Stanford Daily , May 1, 2007
• Article on Nathan Wolfe in Wired magazine , April 24, 2007
• News release on Public Library of Science Biology article by Thomas Rando , April 18, 2007
• News release and Science Brief on Nature article by Karl Deisseroth, April 5, 2007
• News release on Nature article by Leda Cosmides , February 15, 2007
• News release on Lawrence Award from the Department of Energy to Arup Chakraborty , February 7, 2007
• Article on Gary Pielak in Endeavors magazine , Winter 2007
• Article on Karl Deisseroth’s research in the NIH Record, January 26, 2007
• Profile of Nathan Wolfe in The Scientist , January 2007

2006

• Article identifying Sunney Xie’s research as a chemistry highlight of 2006, Chemical & Engineering News , December 18, 2006
• News release on Science article by George Daley , December 14, 2006
• Article on Erich Jarvis in Smithsonian magazine , November 2006
• Article on Giulio Tononi’s sleep research in Discover magazine , October 2006

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