Fifth Annual NIH Director’s
Pioneer Award Symposium
September 24–25, 2009
Masur Auditorium, Building 10, Clinical Center
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland
The Fifth Annual Pioneer Award Symposium is open to the public and no registration is required.
Send questions and requests for reasonable accommodations to Pioneer@nih.gov or call 301-594-3555.
The symposium will be Webcast.
Agenda – Thursday, September 24, 2009
| 8:30 – 9:00 | Introductory Remarks and Announcement of 2009 Awardees Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., Director National Institutes of Health |
| Jeremy M. Berg, Ph.D., Director National Institute of General Medical Sciences National Institutes of Health | |
| 9:00 – 9:45 | Keynote Address: “Habits and Habitats of Inventive People” Arthur Molella, Ph.D., Director Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation National Museum of American History Smithsonian Institution |
| 9:45 – 10:15 | Break |
| 10:15 – 11:45 | Presentations by 2008 Pioneer Awardees Teri W. Odom, Ph.D., Northwestern University Hongkun Park, Ph.D., Harvard University James K. Chen, Ph.D., Stanford University Charles M. Lieber, Ph.D., Harvard University Aravinthan D.T. Samuel, Ph.D., Harvard University Alice Y. Ting, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alexander van Oudenaarden, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology James Eberwine, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania Ann Hochschild, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School |
| 11:45 – 12:45 | Lunch (on your own) |
| 12:45 – 1:45 | Business Meeting (awardees and NIH staff only) |
| 1:45 – 3:00 | Presentations by 2008 Pioneer Awardees Ricardo Dolmetsch, Ph.D., Stanford University Tom Maniatis, Ph.D., Harvard University Joshua M. Epstein, Ph.D., Brookings Institution/Santa Fe Institute Bruce A. Hay, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology Barry London, M.D., Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh Saeed Tavazoie, Ph.D., Princeton University Aviv Regev, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Broad Institute |
| 3:00 – 3:15 | Break |
| 3:15 p.m. | Pioneer Award Poster Session and Reception |
| 5:00 p.m. | Close |
Agenda – Friday, September 25, 2009
| 8:00 – 8:30 | Presentations by 2004 Pioneer Awardees—The First “Graduating Class” Chad Mirkin, Ph.D., Northwestern University |
| 8:30 – 9:00 | Sunney Xie, Ph.D., Harvard University |
| 9:00 – 9:30 | Rob Phillips, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology |
| 9:30 – 10:00 | Stephen R. Quake, D. Phil., Stanford University |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | Break |
| 10:15 – 10:45 | Larry Abbott, Ph.D., Columbia University |
| 10:45 – 11:15 | Homme W. Hellinga, Ph.D., Duke University Medical Center |
| 11:15 – 12:00 | Roundtable Discussion: “Innovation: Interplay Between Technology Development and Hypothesis-Driven Research” |
| 12:00 – 1:00 | Lunch |
| 1:00 – 1:30 | Joseph (Mike) McCune, M.D., Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco |
| 1:30 – 2:00 | George Q. Daley, M.D., Ph.D., Children’s Hospital Boston/Harvard Stem Cell Institute |
| 2:00 – 2:30 | Steven L. McKnight, Ph.D., University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center |
| 2:30 – 2:45 | Break |
| 2:45 p.m. | New Innovator Award Poster Session and Reception |
| 4:45 p.m. | Adjourn |
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