“Princeton faculty win prestigious NIH awards” (news item)

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<p>Princeton</a> University - Princeton faculty win prestigious NIH awards</p>

<p>“Four Princeton faculty members have been awarded grants from the National Institutes of Health for work deemed "high impact" by the federal medical research agency.</p>

<p>“Three of the NIH awards will enable recipients to pursue "exceptionally innovative approaches that could transform biomedical and behavioral science," according to the agency. A fourth, new award is designed to stimulate work that may lead to groundbreaking opportunities for the prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS in drug abusers. </p>

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<p>The awards include the Director’s Pioneer Award (16 awarded nationwide), the Director’s New Innovator Awards (31 awarded nationwide) and the new Avant-Garde Award (3 awarded nationwide). These awards are especially generous. The Pioneer Award and the Avant-Garde Award grant winners $2.5 million each for research costs over five years. The New Innovators receive $1.5 million over the same five years.</p>

<p>2008 NIH Pioneer Award (16 winners)</p>

<p>NIH</a> Director's Pioneer Award - 2008 Recipients</p>

<p>5—Harvard
3—MIT
2—Stanford
1—Princeton, Penn</p>

<p>(the four other winners were from Cal Tech, U. of Pittsburgh, the Brookings Institute and Northwestern)</p>

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<p>2008 NIH Young Innovators (31 winners)</p>

<p>NIH</a> Director's New Innovator Award Recipients September 2008</p>

<p>4—Harvard (includes 3 from affiliated research institutes)
3—Stanford
2—Princeton, JHU, UCSD, UCSF</p>

<p>(within the Ivy League, Penn and Yale were also represented by one winner each)</p>

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<p>2008 Avant-Garde Award (3 winners)</p>

<p>NIDA</a> Announces Recipients of New Avant-Garde Award for Innovative HIV/AIDS Research, September 5, 2008 News Release - National Institutes of Health (NIH)</p>

<p>1—Harvard
1—Princeton
1—U. of British Columbia</p>

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<p>Overall, the leaders were:</p>

<p>10—Harvard
5---Stanford
4---Princeton
3---MIT</p>

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<p>Princeton has no hospital or medical school and no affiliated medical research institutes. Given this and given its smaller faculty, Princeton’s showing this year is especially impressive. Harvard, Stanford and MIT have tended to dominate these awards. All of the winners are very bright stars in life sciences research.</p>