National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award



National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award is a 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 paradigm shifting results. The awards, made annually from the National Institutes of Health common fund, are each worth $500,000 per year, or $2,500,000 for five years.

2004
Source: NIH
 * Larry Abbott
 * George Q. Daley
 * Homme W. Hellinga
 * Joseph McCune
 * Steven L. McKnight
 * Rob Phillips
 * Stephen R. Quake
 * Chad Mirkin
 * Xiaoliang Sunney Xie

2005
Source: NIH
 * 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 Wolfe
 * Junying Yuan

2006
Source: NIH
 * 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

2007
Source: NIH
 * Lisa Feldman Barrett
 * Peter Bearman
 * Emery N. Brown
 * Thomas R. Clandinin
 * James J. Collins
 * Margaret Gardel
 * Takao K. Hensch
 * Marshall S. Horwitz
 * Rustem F. Ismagilov
 * Frances E. Jensen
 * Mark J. Schnitzer
 * Gina Turrigiano

2008
Source: NIH
 * James K. Chen, Ph.D., Stanford University
 * Ricardo Dolmetsch, Ph.D., Stanford University
 * James Eberwine, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
 * Joshua M. Epstein, Ph.D., Brookings Institution
 * Bruce A. Hay, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
 * Ann Hochschild, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School
 * Charles M. Lieber, Ph.D., Harvard University
 * Barry London, M.D., Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
 * Tom Maniatis, Ph.D., Harvard University
 * Teri W. Odom, Ph.D., Northwestern University
 * Hongkun Park, Ph.D., Harvard University
 * Aviv Regev, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Broad Institute
 * Aravinthan D.T. Samuel, Ph.D., Harvard University
 * Saeed Tavazoie, Ph.D., Princeton University
 * Alice Y. Ting, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 * Alexander van Oudenaarden, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2009
Source: NIH
 * Ivor J. Benjamin, University of Utah School of Medicine
 * Ajay Chawla, Stanford University
 * Chang-Zheng Chen, Stanford University
 * Hilde Cheroutre, La Jolla Institute for Immunology
 * Markus W. Covert, Stanford University
 * Joseph M. DeSimone, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill/North Carolina State University
 * Sylvia M. Evans, University of California, San Diego
 * Joseph R. Fetcho, Cornell University
 * Timothy E. Holy, Washington University School of Medicine
 * Tannishtha Reya, Duke University
 * Gene E. Robinson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
 * Susan M. Rosenberg, Baylor College of Medicine
 * Leona D. Samson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 * Nirao M. Shah, University of California, San Francisco
 * Krishna V. Shenoy, Stanford University
 * Sarah A. Tishkoff, University of Pennsylvania
 * Alexander J. Travis, Cornell University State College of Veterinary Medicine
 * Jin Zhang, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

2010
Source: NIH
 * Carlos F. Barbas III, Ph.D., Scripps Research
 * Pamela J. Bjorkman, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
 * Valentin Dragoi, Ph.D., University of Texas, Health Science Center at Houston
 * Stephen W. Fesik, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
 * Tamas L. Horvath, D.V.M., Ph.D., Yale School of Medicine
 * J. Keith Joung, M.D., Ph.D., Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School
 * David Kleinfeld, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
 * Haifan Lin, Ph.D., Yale University
 * Jun O. Liu, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
 * Andres Villu Maricq, M.D., Ph.D., University of Utah
 * Joseph H. Nadeau, Ph.D., Institute for Systems Biology
 * Miguel A. L. Nicolelis, M.D., Ph.D., Duke University
 * Lalita Ramakrishnan, M.D., Ph.D., University of Washington
 * Lorna W. Role, Ph.D., Stony Brook University
 * Michael L. Roukes, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
 * Ram Samudrala, Ph.D., University of Washington
 * Bruce A. Yankner, M.D., Ph.D., Harvard Medical School

2011
Source: NIH
 * Utpal Banerjee, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
 * Brenda L. Bass, Ph.D., University of Utah
 * Jean Bennett, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
 * William M. Clemons, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
 * Florian Engert, Ph.D., Harvard University
 * Andrew P. Feinberg, M.D., M.P.H., Johns Hopkins University
 * James E.K. Hildreth, M.D., Ph.D., University of California, Davis
 * Tao Pan, Ph.D., University of Chicago
 * Sharad Ramanathan, Ph.D., Harvard University
 * David S. Schneider, Ph.D., Stanford University
 * Thanos Siapas, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
 * Andreas S. Tolias, Ph.D., Baylor College of Medicine
 * Mehmet Fatih Yanik, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2012
Source: NIH
 * Anne Brunet, Ph.D., Stanford University
 * Edward Marcotte, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
 * Hidde Ploegh, Ph.D., Whitehead Institute
 * Christina Smolke, Ph.D., Stanford University
 * Yi Tang, Ph.D., University of California
 * Doris Ying Tsao, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology,
 * Lihong V. Wang, Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis
 * Chao-Ting Wu, Ph.D., Harvard University Medical School
 * Gary Yellen, Ph.D., Harvard University Medical School
 * Feng Zhang, Ph.D., Broad Institute

2013
Source: NIH
 * Amy Arnsten, Ph.D., Yale University, New Haven, CT
 * Edward S. Boyden, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA
 * Vadim N. Gladyshev, Ph.D., Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
 * Baljit S. Khakh, Ph.D., University of California Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine, CA
 * Michael Z. Lin, M.D., Ph.D., Stanford University, Stanford, CA
 * Jay Shendure, M.D., Ph.D., University of Washington, Seattle, WA
 * Natalia A. Trayanova, Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
 * Fan Wang, Ph.D., Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
 * Leor S Weinberger, Ph.D., Gladstone Institutes and University of California, San Francisco, CA
 * Xiaoliang Sunney Xie, Ph.D., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
 * Rafael Yuste, M.D., Ph.D., Columbia University, New York, NY
 * Mark J Zylka, Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

2014
Source: NIH
 * Jayakrishna Ambati, M.D., University of Kentucky
 * Chenghua Gu, D.V.M., Ph.D., Harvard medical School
 * Cato T. Laurencin, M.D., Ph.D., University of Connecticut
 * Denise J. Montell, Ph.D., University of California Santa Barbara
 * Carl D. Novina, M.D., Ph.D., Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
 * Amy Palmer, Ph.D., University of Colorado
 * Dana Pe'er, Ph.D., Columbia University
 * Oliver Rando, M.D., Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Medical School
 * Donna L. Spiegelman, Sc.D., Harvard School of Public Health
 * Sean Wu, M.D., Ph.D., Stanford University

2015
Source: 2015 NIH


 * Giovanni Bosco, Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine
 * Jeffery S. Cox, University of California San Francisco
 * Matthew David Disney, The Scripps Research Institute
 * Zemer Gitai, Princeton University
 * Jonathon Howard, Yale University
 * Craig Montell, University of California Santa Barbara
 * Coleen T. Murphy, Princeton University
 * Gwendalyn J. Randolph, Washington University School of Medicine
 * Steven J. Schiff, The Pennsylvania State University
 * Hao Wu, Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
 * Tony Wyss-Coray, Stanford University School of Medicine and VA Palo Alto
 * Ryohei Yasuda, Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience
 * Sheng Zhong, University of California San Diego

2016
Source: NIH


 * Kristin Baldwin, The Scripps Research Institute
 * Bradley Bernstein, Massachusetts General Hospital and Broad Institute
 * Michael Fischbach, University of California, San Francisco
 * Uri Hasson, Princeton University
 * Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
 * Nancy Kanwisher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 * Stephen D. Liberles, Harvard Medical School
 * Christine Mayr, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
 * Joshua D. Rabinowitz, Princeton University
 * Meng Wang, Baylor College of Medicine
 * Sing Sing Way, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
 * Seok-Hyun "Andy" Yun, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School

2017
Source: NIH
 * Hongjie Dai, Stanford University
 * Amit Etkin, Stanford University
 * Howard A. Fine, Weill Cornell College of Medicine
 * Charles M. Lieber, Harvard University
 * Jeffrey D. Macklis, Harvard University
 * Luciano A. Marraffini, Rockefeller University
 * Alex Schier, Harvard University
 * Ramin Shiekhattar, University of Miami
 * David A. Sinclair, Harvard Medical School
 * Justin L. Sonnenburg, Stanford University
 * Kay M. Tye, MIT
 * Feng Zhang, Broad Institute, MIT

2018
Source: NIH
 * Janelle S. Ayres, Salk Institute
 * Daniel A. Colón-Ramos, Yale University School of Medicine
 * Christina Curtis, Stanford University School of Medicine
 * Viviana Gradinaru, Caltech
 * Jonathan Kipnis, University of Virginia School of Medicine
 * Hyungbae Kwon, Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience
 * Michelle Monje, Stanford University
 * Gabriel D. Victora, Rockefeller University
 * Amy J. Wagers, Harvard Medical School
 * Peng Yin, Harvard University

2019
Source: NIH
 * Mark Andermann, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School
 * James Eberwine, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
 * Jennifer H. Elisseeff, Johns Hopkins University
 * Valentina Greco, Yale University
 * Christophe Herman, Baylor College of Medicine
 * Sun Hur, Boston Children’s Hospital
 * Rob Knight, University of California San Diego
 * Jin Hyung Lee, Stanford University
 * Marina R. Picciotto, Yale University
 * Hidde Ploegh, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
 * Simon Scheuring, Weill Cornell Medicine

2020
Source: NIH
 * Annelise E. Barron, Stanford University, Schools of Medicine and of Engineering
 * Kathleen Collins, University of California at Berkeley
 * Christopher D. Harvey, Harvard Medical School
 * Peter S. Kim, Stanford University
 * Brian Litt, University of Pennsylvania
 * Shu-Bing Qian, Cornell University
 * Susan M. Rosenberg, Baylor College of Medicine
 * John Schoggins, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
 * David Veesler, University of Washington School of Medicine
 * Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, California Institute of Technology and University of Cambridge