NIH Director's Transformative Research Award
NIH Director's Transformative Research Award
2010 Awardees
Paola Arlotta, Ph.D.; J. Keith Joung, M.D., Ph.D.; Feng Zhang, Ph.D.
Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School / Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Project Title: Genome-Wide Light-inducible Tuning of Transcriptional Network Dynamic
Grant ID: R01-NS-073124
Martin J. Blaser, M.D.
New York University School of Medicine
Project Title: Disappearing Gastrointestinal Microbiota in Epidemic Obesity
Grant ID: R01-DK-090989
George Coukos, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania
Project Title: Transformative Personalized Vascular Disrupting Cancer Immunotherapy
Grant ID: R01-CA-156695
Andrew Ellington, Ph.D.
University of Texas, Austin
Project Title: DNA Circuits for Point-of-Care Diagnostics
Grant ID: R01-AI-092839
Richard A. Flavell, Ph.D.; Madhav Dhodapkar, M.D.; Markus G. Manz, M.D.
Yale University School of Medicine | Yale Cancer Center | University Hospital Zürich, Switzerland
Project Title: Understanding Hematopoietic Neoplasias Using Humanized Mice
Grant ID: R01-CA-156689
Pamela J. Green, Ph.D.
University of Delaware
Project Title: Global Analysis of the Human RNA Degradome
Grant ID: R01-GM-096471
Jaime Grutzendler, M.D.
Northwestern University
Project Title: Embolus Extravasation: An Alternative Mechanism of Microvascular Recanalization
Grant ID: R01-HL-106815
Amy E. Keating, Ph.D.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Project Title: Very Large Datasets and New Models to Predict and Design Protein Interactions
Grant ID: R01-GM-096466
Bryce E. Nickels, Ph.D. and Simon L. Dove. Ph.D.
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick / Children’s Hospital Boston / Harvard Medical School
Project Title: NanoRNA-Mediated Control of Gene Expression
Grant ID: R01-GM-096454
Miguel A. Nicolelis, M.D., Ph.D.
Duke University
Project Title: Dorsal Column Stimulation as a New Therapy for Motor Disorders
Grant ID: R01-NS-073125
Gary A. Peltz, M.D., Ph.D.
Stanford University School of Medicine
Project Title: Human Pharmacogenetics and Human Liver Regeneration
Grant ID: R01-DK-090992
Shai Shaham, Ph.D.
Rockefeller University
Project Title: Glial Control of Neuronal Receptive Ending Morphology
Grant ID: R01-NS-073121
Liguo Wang, Ph.D.
Yale University School of Medicine
Project Title: Structure of a Membrane Protein in a Lipid Membrane: Cryo-EM Study of the HCN Channel
Grant ID: R01-GM-096458
David B. Weiner, Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania Medical School
Project Title: Development of a Universal Influenza Seasonal Vaccine
Grant ID: R01-AI-092843
Marius Wernig, M.D., Ph.D. and Thomas C. Sudhof, M.D.
Stanford University School of Medicine
Project Title: Direct Conversion of Fibroblasts into Neurons: A Novel Approach to Study Neuropsychiatric Disorders
Grant ID: R01-MH-092931
Mehmet Fatih Yanik, Ph.D.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Project Title: High-Throughput In Vivo Subcellular-Resolution Vertebrate Screening Platform
Grant ID: R01-NS-073127
Anthony M. Zador, M.D., Ph.D.
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Project Title: High-throughput DNA Sequencing Method for Probing the Connectivity of Neural Circuits at Single-Neuron Resolution
Grant ID: R01-NS-073129
Kang Zhang, M.D., Ph.D.; Sheng Ding, Ph.D.; Thomas A. Reh, Ph.D.
University of California, San Diego | The Scripps Research Institute | University of Washington
Project Title: Regeneration of Retinal Neurons by Chemically Induced Reprogramming of Muller Glia
Grant ID: R01-EY-021374
Xiawei Zhuang, Ph.D. and Xiaoliang S. Xie, Ph.D.
Harvard University
Project Title: Dynamic Cellular Architecture of Bacteria by System-Wide Super-Resolution Imaging
Grant ID: R01-GM-096450
