NIH Director's Pioneer Award Program

2012 Pioneer Award Recipients

Anne Brunet, Ph.D.

Anne Brunet, Ph.D.
Stanford University, CA
Project Title: Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance of longevity

Edward M Marcotte, Ph.D.

Edward M Marcotte, Ph.D.
University of Texas Austin, TX
Project Title: Next-Generation Proteomics: Massively Parallel Single-Molecule Protein Identification & Quantification

Hidde l. Ploegh, Ph.D.

Hidde l. Ploegh, Ph.D.
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, MA
Project Title: A new strategy to disrupt protein-protein interactions in eukaryotic cell

Christina D. Smolke, Ph.D.

Christina D. Smolke, Ph.D.
Stanford University, CA
Project Title: Synthetic Biology Platforms for Natural Product Discovery and Biosynthesis

Yi Tang, Ph.D.

Yi Tang, Ph.D.
University of California Los Angeles, CA
Project Title: Rediscovering Natural Chemical Diversity

Doris Ying Tsao, Ph.D.

Doris Ying Tsao, Ph.D.
California Institute of Technology, CA
Project Title: Understanding the circuit for topological object tracking

Lihong Wang, Ph.D.

Lihong Wang, Ph.D.
Washington University in St. Louis, MO
Project Title: Photon Tunneling: Shedding new light on Biomedicine

Ting (C.-ting) Wu, Ph.D.

Ting (C.-ting) Wu, Ph.D.
Harvard University (Medical School), MA
Project Title: The inheritance of position: It's not just who you are, it's where you are

Gary Yellen, Ph.D.

Gary Yellen, Ph.D.
Harvard University, MA
Project Title: Single cell analysis of metabolism using genetically-encoded fluorescent sensors

Feng Zhang, Ph.D.

Feng Zhang, Ph.D.
Broad Institute, Inc., MA
Project Title: Probing Neuropsychiatric Diseases Using Targeted Epigenome and Genome Engineering



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