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In September, the US National Institutes of Health announced the winners of the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award, a grant for future research aimed at “supporting individual scientists of exceptional creativity, who propose pioneering – and possibly transforming – approaches to major challenges in biomedical and behavioral research”.

We’re delighted that among the recipients this year were two F1000Prime Faculty Members:

Ed Boyden is a member of the Neuroscience Faculty and the author of the F1000Prime Report ‘A history of optogenetics: the development of tools for controlling brain circuits with light‘. He received the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award for the project ‘Millisecond-Timescale Whole-Brain Neural Activity Mapping in Health and Disease’. As mentioned on this blog previously, Ed was this year also one of the recipients of the prestigious Brain Prize for his work on optogenetics.

 

Jay Shendure is associate professor of genome sciences at the University of Washington, and a Member of F1000Prime’s Genomics & Genetics Faculty. Jay was awarded the grant for the project ‘Interpreting Genetic Variants of Uncertain Significance’.

 

A full list of the recipients can be found here – congratulations to you all!