National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award



National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award is 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 consequential results.

The awards amount to approximately $500,000 per year in 2006.

2004

 * Larry Abbott
 * George Q. Daley
 * Homme W. Hellinga
 * Joseph McCune
 * Steven L. McKnight
 * Rob Phillips
 * Stephen R. Quake
 * Chad Mirkin
 * Sunney Xie

2005

 * Vicki L. Chandler
 * Hollis T. Cline
 * Leda Cosmides
 * Titia de Lange
 * Karl Deisseroth
 * Pehr A.B. Harbury
 * Erich D. Jarvis
 * Thomas A. Rando
 * Derek J. Smith
 * Giulio Tononi
 * Clare M. Waterman-Storer
 * Nathan D. Wolfe
 * Junying Yuan

2006

 * Kwabena A. Boahen
 * Arup K. Chakraborty
 * Lila M. Gierasch
 * Rebecca W. Heald
 * Karla Kirkegaard
 * Thomas J. Kodadek
 * Cheng Chi Lee
 * Evgeny A. Nudler
 * Gary J. Pielak
 * David A. Relman
 * Rosalind A. Segal
 * James L. Sherley
 * Younan Xia