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title: "Beckman Young Investigators Award"
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The Beckman Young Investigators Award was established by Mabel and Arnold Beckman in 1991, and is now administered by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation. The Beckman Young Investigator (BYI) Program is intended to provide research support to promising young faculty members in the early stages of their academic careers. Awardees receive grants of roughly $600,000 over four years, "contingent on demonstrated progress after the second year". The intent is to foster "innovative departures" and the invention of methods, instruments and materials that will open up new avenues of research in the chemical and life sciences.
It has been awarded to the following scientists:


== 2021 ==
Beau Alward
Roxanne Beltran
Margaret Byron
Katherine Davis
Robert Gilliard
Tania Lupoli
Brett McGuire
Nicolas Pégard
Alison Wendlandt
Balyn Zaro
Yingjie Zhang


== 2020 ==
John Blazeck
Jennifer Bridwell-Rabb
Laura Duvall
Andrea Giovannucci
Stavroula Hatzios
Sarah King
James McKone
Yue Wang


== 2019 ==
Keriann Backus
Chenfeng Ke
Wesley Legant
Frank Leibfarth
Jarad Mason
Jia Niu
Kimberly See
Leslie Schoop
Kirk Wangensteen
Brad Zuchero


== 2018 ==
Dmitriy Aronov
Alistair Boettiger
Henry La Pierre
Chen Li
Jean-Hubert Olivier
Ian Seiple
Michaela TerAvest
Ashleigh Theberge
Weiwei Xie
Xiaoji Xu


== 2017 ==
Victor Acosta
Jeremy Baskin
Pamela Chang
Dan Fu
Erik Grumstrup
A. Fatih Sarioglu
Jose Rodriguez
Bo Wang


== 2016 ==
Yiyang Gong
Markita Landry
Zachary Pincus
Gabriela Schlau-Cohen
Sabrina Spencer
Scott Warren
Jing-Ke Weng
Ke Xu


== 2015 ==
Lawrence David
David Flannigan
Yevgenia Kozorovitskiy
Chang Liu
Patrick Mercier
Peter Nemes
Kang-Kuen Ni
Alex Shalek


== 2014 ==
Albert Bowers
Ludovico Cademartiri
Prashant Jain
Reade Roberts
Wesley Wong
Yimon Aye
Yuebing Zheng


== 2013 ==
Aaron Hoskins
Christina Stallings
Delphine Farmer

Elena Gracheva
Gordana Dukovic
Hillel Adesnik
Poul Petersen


== 2012 ==
Catherine A. Blish
Farren J. Isaacs
Frank Alber
Louis Bouchard
William Dichtel


== 2011 ==


== 2010 ==


== 2009 ==
Anne McNeil
Daniel Zilberman
David Masopust
Herschel Wade
Jon Lai
Marc Hammarlund
Nicholas Putnam
Ruth Ley
Scott Phillips
Soichiro Yamada
Valeria Molinero


== 2008 ==
Alla Grishok
Andreas S. Tolias
Clodagh O'Shea
E. Charles H. Sykes
Faik Akif Tezcan
Ke Hu
Martin D. Burke
Michael J. Axtell
Michelle Chang
Pieter C. Dorrestein
Stephen Rogers
Steven Little
Tehshik Yoon
Todd M. Squires
Vassiliy Lubchenko
Zefeng Wang


== 2007 ==
Adrian Salic
Alexander Deiters
Amy J. Wagers
Brent Stockwell
Christopher W. Bielawski
Eric S. Huseby
Garegin Papoian
Jay A. Gupta
Joshua J. Coon
Min Ouyang
Rachel L. Wilson
Sean Crosson
Sean F. Brady
Shu-Ou Shan
Siavash K. Kurdistani
Zemer Gitai


== 2006 ==
Abraham Stroock
Andrey S. Krasilnikov
Anton Nekrutenko
Arthur Salomon
David A. Gracias
David Traver
Geeta Narlikar
Hopi Hoekstra
Jeanne Hardy
Jeffrey W. Bode
Jingdong Tian
Krystyn J. Van Vliet
Laura Kaufman
Lei Wang
Manuel Llinas
Marc Johnson
Michael Bulger
Michael S. Strano
Mohammad Movassaghi
Phil S. Baran
Raymond Schaak
Sanjay Kumar
Srinivasan S. Iyengar
Susan Janicki
Xi Chen


== 2005 ==
Audrey P. Gasch
Carsten Krebs
Christian Munz
Christina D. Smolke
Christopher Chang
Chuan He
Glenn Micalizio
Hyongsok Soh
Jeffrey J. Gray
Jing Wang
Josh Dubnau
Joshua D. Rabinowitz
Judith X. Becerra
Justin P. Gallivan
Matthew P. DeLisa
Peng Jin
Philip LeDuc
Randy Bartels
Rebekah Drezek
Sarah O'Connor
Stuart Licht
Theresa M. Reineke
Volney Sheen
Yueh-Lin Loo


== 2004 ==
Akhilesh Pandey
Brenda S. Schulman
Brian Kuhlman
Christine D. Keating
D. Tyler McQuade
David M. Rector
Garth Simpson
Gavin MacBeath
Guillermo Ameer
Jay T. Groves
Kent L. Hill
Kevin P. White
Lara K. Mahal
Mark J. Schnitzer
Martin T. Zanni
Melanie S. Sanford
Michael H. B. Stowel
Michael T. Green
Paul A. Maggard


== 2003 ==
Adam Matzger
Alexander Li
Consuelo de Moraes
Darrell Irvine
David Lin
David Lynn
Douglas Robinson
Douglas Smith
Gregory Odorizzi
Heather C. Allen
Kevin Yarema
Kim Orth
Kristi Kiick
Lu Chen
Paul Hergenrother
Pingyun Feng
Rustem Ismagilov
Sue Biggins
Xiaowei Zhuang
Zhan Chen


== 2002 ==
Andrei Sanov
Bingwei Lu
Carla Koehler
Colin Nuckolls
Daniel Minor
David Chan
David Liu
Gregory Weiss
Guoping Feng
Heather Carlson
James Schneider
Jason Hafner
Melody Swartz
Peidong Yang
Shiv Halasyamani
Yi Sun


== 2001 ==
Geoffrey Chang
Gerard C. L. Wong
Gero Miesenboeck
Guowei Fang
Hays S. Rye
Jonathan Wilker
Justin Du Bois
Koen Visscher
Leslie B. Vosshall
Linda C. Hsieh-Wilson
Mark C. Hersam
Michael J. Caterina
Paul Cremer
Paul V. Braun
William B. Connick
Zhibin Guan


== 2000 ==
Aaron W. Harper
Angela M. Belcher
Donald H. Burke
Erik J. Sorensen
Geoffrey Coates
James B. Ames
Jeffrey G. Saven
Karlene A. Cimprich
L. Andrew Lyon
Raffi V. Aroian
Sarah H. Tolbert
Sean M. Burgess
Steven E. Jacobsen
Vicki Colvin
Virginia W. Cornish
Wen Bin Lin


== 1999 ==
Christopher Lima
Claudia Turro
Craig Hunter
Daniel Feldheim
Deborah Wuttke
Douglas Barrick
George O'Doherty
John Zhang
Lee Bardwell
Mahdi Abu-Omar
Mei Hong
Michelle Wang
Ram Sasisekharan
Sheila Nirenberg
Todd Martinez
Wilfred A. Van Der Donk


== 1998 ==
Annelise E. Barron
Carolyn R. Bertozzi
Charles Brenner
David Y. Gin
John L. Bowman
Joseph Z. Tsien
Kit J. Pogliano
Mark C. Lonergan
Michael D. Sheets
Richard W. Roberts
Robert M. Strongin
Susana Cohen-Cory
Thomas J. Wandless
Timothy J. Deming
William C. Smith
Yang Dan


== 1997 ==
Alexei A.Stuchebrukhov
David S. Bredt
Elizabeth Gavis
Jason Shear
John T. Fourkas
Michael K. Rosen
Rafael Yuste
Raymond Deshaies
Scott Strobel
Sonbinh T. Nguyen
Sonny C. Lee
Stacey Shane Bent
Terence Hwa
Tito A. Serafini
Weihong Tan
Yian Shi


== 1996 ==
Chen-Ming Fan
Erin Schulman
Gang-Yu Liu
Jennifer A. Doudna
Karl T. Mueller
Klaus Schmidt-Rohr
Leemor Joshua-Tor
Lucio Frydman
Ronald Breaker
Roya Maboudian
Scott Reid
Shuming Nie
Stephen J. Kron
Susan R. Wente
William Schafer
Yi Lu


== 1995 ==
Arthur Palmer
David Baker
Frederick M. Hughson
Jefferson Foote
Lawrence R. Sita
Lizbeth Hedstrom
Marcos Dantus
Melissa Hines
Michael J. Mahan
Michael L. Nonet
Nancy Allbritton
Nikola P. Pavletich
Paul E. Laibinis
Susan Marqusee


== 1994 ==
Alcino Silva
Anna Marie Pyle
David M. Ornitz
James D. Marks
James S. Nowick
Laura L. Kiessling
Michael J. Natan
Norbert Scherer
Raymond C. Stevens
Robert T. Kennedy
Seung Koo Shin
Yves Rubin


== 1993 ==
Arlene Sharpe
David C. Schwartz
David W. Piston
Erick M. Carreira
Jeffrey Field
John H. Griffin
Jonathan Ellman
Luping Yu
Michael H. Hecht
Michael J. Sailor
Nancy Makri
Reginald M. Penner
Sheila S. David
Teresa R. Strecker


== 1992 ==
A. J. Shaka
Chad A. Mirkin
David A. Horne
Eric T. Kool
Evan R. Williams
Jose N. Onuchic
Leslie Bell
Martin Yanofsky
Michael J. Therien
Patricia A. Bianconi
Philip A. Anfinrud
Robert M. Weis


== 1991 ==
Curtis A. Monnig
David A. Laude
Douglas Koshland
Frederick Cross
Kathy L. Rowlen
Maria Jasin
Mercouri G. Kanatzidis
Michelle Hanna
Nancy Carrasco
Reza Ghadiri
Ron Frostig
Sharon L. Neal


== References ==