{"id":1223,"date":"2014-11-04T13:24:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T13:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uchc.dev.uconn.edu\/regenerativeengineering\/2014\/11\/04\/nih-directors-pioneer-award\/"},"modified":"2014-11-04T13:24:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T13:24:00","slug":"nih-directors-pioneer-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/2014\/11\/04\/nih-directors-pioneer-award\/","title":{"rendered":"NIH Director&#8217;s Pioneer Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In early September, I was honored to be named one of ten scientists chosen to receive a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director&#8217;s Pioneer Award. The Pioneer Award funds innovative research proposals which attack challenging biomedical problems. Established ten years ago, this award encourages the kind of forward-looking research  scientists once complained was difficult to find funding for under the traditional NIH grant structure. It is designed to support &#8220;a small number of investigators of exceptional creativity who propose bold and highly innovative new research approaches that have the potential to produce a major impact&#8221; in the fields of biomedicine and behavioral research, according to the NIH. I am grateful to receive this award from among such a competitive group. It will allow us the intellectual freedom and resources to develop a brand new technology. If successfully implemented, the technology will impact many disciplines of biomedical research, including biomaterials development, regenerative engineering, developmental biology, drug delivery, and stem cell biology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In early September, I was honored to be named one of ten scientists chosen to receive a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director&#8217;s Pioneer Award. The Pioneer Award funds innovative research proposals which attack challenging biomedical problems. Established ten years ago, this award encourages the kind of forward-looking research scientists once complained was difficult to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1244,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-03 04:16:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}