Miguel Nicolelis awarded the 2010 NIH Director's Pioneer Award

   Miguel Nicolelis awarded the 2010 NIH Director's Pioneer Award

Duke University School of Medicine neurobiologist Miguel Nicolelis, M.D., Ph.D., is one of 17 recipients of the 2010 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s Pioneer Award. The award will provide funding to continue Nicolelis’ groundbreaking work into the development of brain-machine interface (BMI) technology.

Nicolelis, a professor of neurobiology, biomedical engineering, and psychological and brain sciences and co-director of the Center for Neuroengineering, joins an esteemed list of 81 Pioneer Award recipients
since the start of the program in 2004. Each of this year’s recipients was awarded $2.5 million spanning five years to conduct their research.

“Dr. Nicolelis is to be congratulated for this prestigious award recognizing the novel and influential research that has been the hallmark of his career,” said Nancy Andrews, M.D., Ph.D., dean of the Duke University School of Medicine.