national institutes of health director's pioneer award 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. recipients 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