President Obama Honors Outstanding Early-Career NIH Scientists

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President Obama has chosen 20 NIH scientists for this year’s Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government to outstanding scientists and engineers beginning their independent careers.

“This presidential award is extremely prestigious and recognizes the achievements of scientists early in their career,” said NIH Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D. “These scientists have demonstrated the value of their current work along with the promise of future discoveries to improve the health of our nation. We are very excited about the new PECASE recipients.”

Since the program began in 1996, NIH has funded 233 PECASE recipients. The NIH awardees will take their places along with 102 other highly accomplished scientists from a number of federal agencies. Of the 20 NIH honorees, 17 are new investigators working at institutions around the nation. The others have positions in the NIH Intramural Programs.

A complete list of NIH-supported PECASE recipients and program information is available athttp://grants.nih.gov/grants/policy/pecase.htm. Awardees will be honored by the President at a White House ceremony sometime in 2014.

The White House announcement is available at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/12/23/president-obama-honors-outstanding-early-career-scientists

The Office of the Director, the central office at NIH, is responsible for setting policy for the NIH, which includes 27 Institutes and Centers. This involves planning, managing, and coordinating the programs and activities of all NIH components. The Office of the Director also includes program offices which are responsible for stimulating specific areas of research throughout NIH. Additional information is available at http://www.nih.gov/icd/od.

About the National Institutes of Health (NIH): NIH, the nation's medical research agency, includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NIH is the primary federal agency conducting and supporting basic, clinical, and translational medical research, and is investigating the causes, treatments, and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and its programs, visitwww.nih.gov.

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