Carlos F. Barbas III, Ph.D.
The Scripps Research Institute
Project Title: Chemically Programmed Immunity

Pamela J. Bjorkman, Ph.D.
California Institute of Technology
Project Title: Thwarting HIV Evasion of Antibody Avidity with Novel Antibody Architectures

Valentin Dragoi, Ph.D.
University of Texas, Health Science Center at Houston
Project Title: Examining Population Coding Underlying Complex Behavior in Freely Moving Primates

Stephen W. Fesik, Ph.D.
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Project Title: Expanding the Druggable Genome

Tamas L. Horvath, D.V.M., Ph.D.
Yale University School of Medicine
Project Title: Hypothalamic AgRP Neurons Are Determinants of Healthy Lifespan and Higher Brain Functions

J. Keith Joung, M.D., Ph.D.
Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School
Project Title: Advancing Stem Cell Technologies Using Engineered Zinc Finger Proteins

David Kleinfeld, Ph.D.
University of California, San Diego
Project Title: Defining the Logic of Neurovascular Signaling in the Brain

Haifan Lin, Ph.D.
Yale University
Project Title: Toward a Central Question in Epigenetics: A Major Epigenetic Programming Mechanism Guided by piRNAs

Jun O. Liu, Ph.D.
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Project Title: Generation and Proteome-Wide Screening of Hybrid Combinatorial Libraries

Andres Villu Maricq, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Utah
Project Title: Simultaneous In Vivo Studies of Synapses, Neurons, and Learning and Memory

Joseph H. Nadeau, Ph.D.
The Institute for Systems Biology
Project Title: Lamarck Redux: Transgenerational Genetic Effects on Phenotypes and Disease

Miguel A. L. Nicolelis, M.D., Ph.D.
Duke University
Project Title: A Virtual Reality Simulator to Study VLSBA and Test Brain-Actuating Technologies

Lalita Ramakrishnan, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Washington
Project Title: Linking the Behavior of Individual Host Cells to their Transcriptional Signatures

Lorna W. Role, Ph.D.
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Project Title: Unveiling the Role and Taking Control of Cholinergic Tone in Circuits of Attention, Memory, and Fear

Michael L. Roukes, Ph.D.
California Institute of Technology
Project Title: Nanoscale Tools to Push Biomedical Frontiers

Ram Samudrala, Ph.D.
University of Washington
Project Title: Novel Paradigms for Drug Discovery: Computational Multi-Target Screening

Bruce A. Yankner, M.D., Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School
Project Title: Modeling the Aging Epigenome