# 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