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NIH DIRECTOR'S PIONEER AWARD SYMPOSIUM EXPANDS:

Two-Day Event Will Showcase Variety of Highly Innovative Research, Promote Interaction

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The fourth annual NIH Director's Pioneer Award Symposium is on September 22–23 at Natcher Conference Center (Building 45), extended to two days this year to ensure ample opportunity for interaction with Pioneer and New Innovator award recipients. The agenda, posted at http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/pioneer/symposium2008.

NIH Director Elias Zerhouni will open the symposium and announce the fifth cohort of Pioneer Award recipients, scientists taking bold and imaginative approaches to important biomedical problems, and the second group of New Innovator Award recipients, similarly innovative new investigators who have not yet received R01 or comparable NIH grants.

Speakers and their topics are:

Attendance is free; registration is not required. Activities of the symposium are supported in part by the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health through grants from Booz Allen Hamilton and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

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