Investing in Innovation
Groundbreaking research and novel ideas have earned 41 scientists $105 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health.
The researchers recognized with the 2007 NIH Director’s Pioneer Awards and New Innovator Awards will each receive $1.5 to $2.5 million to explore promising concepts and technologies that may lead to important advances in medicine.
The bold projects being funded include cutting edge studies on general anesthesia, new cancer therapies, powerful cell imaging microscopes, and many others.
These competitive awards are part of a larger initiative known as the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research. NIH’s Roadmap is designed to encourage young scientists to explore unconventional projects which have the potential to dramatically transform the nation’s medical research capabilities. As one director explained,
“We hope that these programs also help remind the scientific community, including its newest members, that we encourage investigators to be bold and ‘swing for the fences’ with their proposals.”
Jeremy M. Berg, PhD
Director, National Institute of General Medical Sciences
Award recipients were announced by the NIH Director, Elias A. Zerhouni MD, at a symposium held in the Natcher Conference Center. If you’d like to learn more about the accomplishments of scientists who have received past NIH awards, just click here.
Source: NIH News
Related Links: Medical News Today; The White House
Related Podcast: Engineering Health Care from the National Academy of Engineering
Tags: Baylor College of Medicine; Boston College; Boston University; Brandeis University; Brigham and Women’s Hospital; California Institute of Technology; Children’s Hospital Boston; Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC; Columbia University; Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Harvard School of Public Health; Harvard Stem Cell Institute; Harvard University; Huntsman Cancer Institute; Massachusetts General Hospital; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Princeton University; Stanford University; Tufts University School of Medicine; University of California (at Berkeley, Los Angeles and San Francisco); University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, University of Chicago; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; University of Texas Medical Branch; University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas; University of Washington School of Medicine; Vanderbilt University; Yale University
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