James D. Gunton, Ph.D.,  Lehigh University

          A Fundamental Microscopic Theory of Nucleation for Globular Proteins

Seymour Lieberman, Ph.D.,St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital Center

          Research in Steroid Hormones

Ary L. Goldberger, M.D., Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

          Research in Nonlinear Mathematics

Charles D. Little, Ph.D., University of Kansas

Research in Understanding Early Vessel Formation in Warm Blooded Vertebrate, Vascular Pattern Analysis: A Systems Approach

Dana Leanne Jones, Ph.D., Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Stem Cell Research

Pietro De Camilli, M.D., Yale University School of Medicine

Molecular Mechanisms of Synaptic Vesicle Biogenesis

George D. Rose, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University    

Research in Protein Folding

Frederick S. Jones, Ph.D., The Neurosciences Institute

A Multilevel Approach to Determine the Role of Dopaminein Reward-Based Learning

Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, Ph.D., Salk Institute for Biological Studies

          An Integrated Approach to Understand Embryonic Form: The Vertebrate Heart

Michael J. Mahan, Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara

Epigenetic Control of Bacterial Gene Expression

Michael J. Grusby, Ph.D., Harvard School of PublicHealth

Study Function/Regulation of Signal Transducer and Activator of Transcription Proteins in Immune Response (STAT)

Leonard H. Rome, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles  

Functional Characterization of the Vault Ribonucleoprotein Particle

Eric R. Kandel, Ph.D., Richard Axel, M.D., Thomas M. Jessel, Ph.D.,

Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

 Molecular Approach to Complex Neural Circuitry and Their Transient and Persistent Modulation by Different Forms of Attention

Ajit Varki, Ph.D, University of California, San Deigo

Research in Molecular Glycobiology

Stanley B. Prusiner, M.D., University of California, San Francisco

Attempts to Produce Synthetic Prions        

S. Walter Englander, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Amyloid: Ultrastructure and Principles of Formation

W. Davis Parker, Jr. M.D., University of Virginia School of Medicine  

Research in Mitochondrial Genome

Kenneth S. Zaret, Ph.D., Fox Chase Cancer Center

Control of Gene Packaging in the Cell Nucleus

Dalibor Sames, Ph.D., Columbia University

Imaging Functional Networks in Vivo

Ramin Shiekhattar, Ph.D., Wistar Institute

Research in RNA Regulation

Joshua Wand, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

Study of Protein Dynamics by NMR: NMR Spectroscopy of Encapsulated Proteins in Low Viscosity Fluid

Timothy Holy, Ph.D., Washington University

Mathematical Modeling to Analyze the Neural Circuitry that Links Sense of Smell to Behavior.

Scott W. Emmons, Ph.D., Einstein College of Medicine

Electron Microscopic Reconstruction of the C. elegans Adult Male Nervous System

Thomas Kelly, Ph.D., Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Regulation of Eukaryotic DNA Replication

Steven Goldman, M.D./Ph.D., Maiken Nedergaard, M.D./Ph.D., University of Rochester

An Astrocytic Basis for Humanity

Haifan Lin, Ph.D., Yale University School of Medicine

Epigenetic Programming of Stem Cells