NIH Director's Pioneer Award Program

2011 Pioneer Award Recipients

Utpal Banerjee, Ph.D.

Utpal Banerjee, Ph.D.
University of California, Los Angeles
Project Title: Developmental Control Of Metabolism

Brenda L. Bass, Ph.D.

Brenda L. Bass, Ph.D.
University of Utah
Project Title: Cellular Double-Stranded RNA As A Signal Of Stress, Immunity, And Aging

Jean Bennett, Ph.D.

Jean Bennett, Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania
Project Title: Broad Spectrum Molecular Therapy For Blinding Retina Disorders

William M. Clemons, Ph.D.

William M. Clemons, Ph.D.
California Institute of Technology
Project Title: NIH Pioneer Award

Florian Engert, Ph.D.

Florian Engert, Ph.D.
Harvard University
Project Title: Watching A Vertebrate Brain Learn And Behave In A Virtual Environment

Andrew P. Feinberg, M.D., M.P.H.

Andrew P. Feinberg, M.D., M.P.H.
Johns Hopkins University
Project Title: A General Stochastic Epigenetic Model For Evolution, Development, And Disease

James E.K. Hildreth, Ph.D.

James E.K. Hildreth, M.D., Ph.D.
University of California, Davis
Project Title: Role Of Natural Pseudotyping With Other Viruses In HIV Transmission

Tao Pan, Ph.D.

Tao Pan, Ph.D.
University of Chicago
Project Title: Mis-Translation As A New Mechanism Of Stress Response In Biology

Sharad Ramanathan, Ph.D.

Sharad Ramanathan, Ph.D.
Harvard University
Project Title: A Road Map To The Neocortex

David S. Schneider, Ph.D.

David S. Schneider, Ph.D.
Stanford University
Project Title: Mapping The Road To Recovery - Does The Way We Get Better Differ From The Way We Get Sick.

Thanos Siapas, Ph.D.

Thanos Siapas, Ph.D.
California Institute of Technology
Project Title: Nanoprobe Arrays For Massively Parallel 3-D Recordings Of Brain Activity

Andreas S. Tolias, Ph.D.

Andreas S. Tolias, Ph.D.
Baylor College of Medicine
Project Title: Dissecting The Fabric Of The Cerebral Cortex

Mehmet Fatih Yanik, Ph.D.

Mehmet Fatih Yanik, Ph.D.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Project Title: Generating Transplantable Neurons By In Vivo Combinatorial Screening Of Transcription Regulator RNAs



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