NIH Director's Pioneer Award Recipients

2011 Awardees

Utpal Banerjee

Utpal Banerjee, Ph.D.

University of California, Los Angeles

Project Title: Developmental Control Of Metabolism
Grant ID: DP1-OD008356

 

 

 

Brenda L. Bass

Brenda L. Bass, Ph.D.

University of Utah

Project Title: Cellular Double-Stranded RNA as a Signal of Stress, Immunity, and Aging
Grant ID: DP1-OD008174

 

 

 

Jean Bennett

Jean Bennett, Ph.D.

University of Pennsylvania

Project Title: Broad Spectrum Molecular Therapy for Blinding Retina Disorders
Grant ID: DP1-OD008267

 

 

 

William M. Clemons

William M. Clemons, Ph.D.

California Institute of Technology

Project Title: NIH Pioneer Award
Grant ID: DP1-OD008304

 

 

 

Florian Engert

Florian Engert, Ph.D.

Harvard University

Project Title: Watching a Vertebrate Brain Learn and Behave in a Virtual Environment
Grant ID: DP1-OD008240

 

 

 

Andrew P. Feinberg

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

Johns Hopkins University

Project Title: A General Stochastic Epigenetic Model for Evolution, Development, and Disease
Grant ID: DP1-OD008324

 

 

 

James E.K. Hildreth

James E.K. Hildreth, M.D., Ph.D.

University of California, Davis

Project Title: Role of Natural Pseudotyping with Other Viruses in HIV Transmission
Grant ID: DP1-OD008243

 

 

 

Tao Pan

Tao Pan, Ph.D.

University of Chicago

Project Title: Mis-Translation as a New Mechanism of Stress Response in Biology
Grant ID: DP1-OD008169

 

 

 

Sharad Ramanathan

Sharad Ramanathan, Ph.D.

Harvard University

Project Title: A Road Map to the Neocortex
Grant ID: DP1-OD008197

 

 

 

David S. Schneider

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
Grant ID: DP1-OD008167

 

 

 

Thanos Siapas

Thanos Siapas, Ph.D.

California Institute of Technology

Project Title: Nanoprobe Arrays for Massively Parallel 3-D Recordings of Brain Activity
Grant ID: DP1-OD008255

 

 

 

Andreas S. Tolias

Andreas S. Tolias, Ph.D.

Baylor College of Medicine

Project Title: Dissecting the Fabric of the Cerebral Cortex
Grant ID: DP1-OD008301

 

 

 

Mehmet Fatih Yanik

Mehmet Fatih Yanik, Ph.D.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Project Title: Generating Transplantable Neurons by In Vivo Combinatorial Screening of Transcription Regulator RNAs
Grant ID: DP1-OD008161

 

 

 

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