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M. J. Friedrich

JAMA. 2005;293:787-789.

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Boston—Letting the imagination take hold and transport you beyond what you are working on in the laboratory is what makes science fun, says stem cell biologist George Daley, MD, PhD. But the intense competition for research dollars, he adds, tends to discourage this type of risk taking in grant proposals.

Now Daley has the chance to follow his imagination, as one of 9 scientists named by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) last fall as the first recipients of the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award. The Pioneer program enables a select group of biomedical researchers to pursue creative new research directions that they otherwise might not be able to follow. The intention is that the award, which provides funding of up to $500 000 per year for 5 years, will foster innovative ideas that will accelerate advances in human health.

George Daley, MD, PhD (Photo credit: Alicair Marshall, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

BLOOD FROM A STEM CELL