NIH Director's Pioneer Award
NIH Director's Pioneer Award
2013 Awardees
Amy F.T. Arnsten, Ph.D.
Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
Project Title: Highly Evolved Brain Circuits in Primates: Molecular Vulnerabilities for Disease
Grant ID: DP1-AG047744
Edward S. Boyden, Ph.D.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Project Title: Millisecond-Timescale Whole-Brain Neural Activity Mapping in Health and Disease
Grant ID: DP1-NS087724
Vadim N. Gladyshev, Ph.D.
Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, MA
Project Title: Mechanisms of Lifespan Control
Grant ID: DP1-AG047745
Baljit S. Khakh, Ph.D.
University of California Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine
Project Title: Astrocyte Branchlet Dysfunction as an Early Step in Brain Disorders
Grant ID: DP1-MH104069
Michael Z. Lin, M.D., Ph.D.
Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.
Project Title: Optogenetics for All: A General Method for Optical Control of Protein Activity
Grant ID: DP1-GM111003
Jay Ashok Shendure, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Washington, Seattle
Project Title: Interpreting Genetic Variants of Uncertain Significance
Grant ID: DP1-HG007811
Natalia A. Trayanova, Ph.D.
The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.
Project Title: Virtual Electrophysiology Laboratory
Grant ID: DP1-HL123271
Fan Wang, Ph.D.
Duke University Medical Center
Project Title: Toward Causal Neuroscience: Capture and Manipulate Emergent Neuronal Ensembles
Grant ID: DP1-MH103908
Leor S Weinberger, Ph.D.
Gladstone Institutes and University of California, San Francisco, CA
Project Title: Evolvable Resistance-Proof Therapies
Grant ID: DP1-DE024408
Xiaoliang Sunney Xie, Ph.D.
Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Project Title: Probing Dynamics of The Human Genome by Single Cell Sequencing
Grant ID: DP1-CA186693
Rafael M Yuste, M.D., Ph.D.
Columbia University
Project Title: Functional Connectomics of the Neocortical Microcircuit
Grant ID: DP1-EY024503
Mark J Zylka, Ph.D.
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C.
Project Title: The Elongation Hypothesis of Autism
Grant ID: DP1-ES024088
