NLM Grantees Receive the Prestigious Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)

The Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) is the highest honor bestowed annually by the U.S. government on young researchers. Recipients are selected from nomination of scientists whose work is supported by more than 16 Federal departments and agencies. The PECASE awards recognize scientists for “their pursuit of innovative research at the frontiers of science and technology and their commitment to community service.” The following are the 7 NLM-funded researchers who have received PECASE awards:

• Dr. Lana Garmire (University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2016) for research titled An Intergrative Bioinformatics Platform with Application in Single Cancer Cells 
• Dr. Cui Tao (University of Texas, 2014) for research titled Patient Medical History Representation, Extraction, and Inference from EHR Data
• Dr. John S. Brownstein (Children's Hospital Boston, 2010) for research titled A Platform for Modeling the Global Impact of Climate Change on Infectious Disease
• Dr. Bradley A. Malin (Vanderbilt University, 2009) for research titled Technologies to Enable Privacy in Biomedical Databases
• Dr. Kenneth Mandl (Harvard University, 2004) for research titled Disease Surveillance in Real Time: Geotemporal Methods
• Dr. Ida Sim (University of California, San Francisco, 1999) for research titled Electronic Knowledge Based Publication of Randomized Trials
• Dr. Russ Altman (Stanford University, 1997) for research titled Representing Biological Data for Molecular Modeling

Dr. John Brownstein, NLM’s 2010 PECASE recipient, with Dr. Francis Collins, NIH Director, Ms. Kathleen Sebelius, HHS Secretary, and Dr. John Holdren, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Photo credit: NASA/Paul E. Alers.