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Anna Maria Nobili

After having published several papers on celestial mechanics, also in collaboration with Clifford Will and E. Myles Standish, Nobili is now Principal Investigator of the Galileo Galilei (GG) experiment aimed to improve the accuracy

James L. Gulley

Since 1999 he has authored and run a variety of clinical trials at the NCI, serving as Principal Investigator or an Associate Investigator on approximately 40 trials.

Mount Mende

It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 1987 after Stephen B. Mende of the Lockheed Research Laboratory, Palo Alto, California, a Principal Investigator in upper atmosphere research, including auroral studies, carried out at Siple Station and South Pole Station from 1973 onwards.

Scientastic!

It involved the efforts of many groups and individuals, including the Regenerative Medicine Partnership in Education, where Pollock serves as Principal Investigator, and the Pittsburgh Creative and Performing Arts School (CAPA).

Software Sustainability Institute

The Principal investigator of the project is Neil Chue Hong with support from Malcolm Atkinson, David De Roure, Carole Goble and Mark Parsons.

The Chinese Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study

The Chinese Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) is a longitudinal survey being conducted by the China Center for Economic Research at Peking University with Professor Yaohui Zhao of Peking University serving as Principal Investigator and Professors John Strauss of the University of Southern California and Albert Park of Oxford University serving as co-Principal Investigators.


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Adolfo García-Sastre

In 2005, as principal investigator of an NIAID program project grant, García-Sastre and his team made headlines when they reconstructed the extinct 1918 pandemic influenza virus.

Anthony Abela

He was principal investigator of the European Values Study in Malta, Member of the European Values Steering Committee at Tilburg in the Netherlands, and served as Evaluator and Reviewer of social research projects for the European Commission.

Arthur Lupia

As a Principal Investigator of the ANES (American National Election Studies), he introduced many procedural, methodological, and content innovations to one of the world's best-known scientific studies of elections.

Bernard F. Schutz

He is principal investigator in charge of data analysis for the GEO600 collaboration (which, in turn, is part of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the largest concerted effort to directly detect gravitational waves).

Buck Institute for Research on Aging

The principal investigator and director of the Consortium on Geroscience is Gordon J. Lithgow.

Carol Hirschmugl

Carol Hirschmugl, is Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, Principal Investigator at the Synchrotron Radiation Center, and Director of the Laboratory for Dynamics and Structure at Surfaces.

Catherine Cesarsky

She was the Principal Investigator of the ISOCAM camera on board the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) of the European Space Agency (ESA), which flew between 1995 and 1998.

Celso Arango

He has participated in more than 62 competitively funded research projects, as Principal Investigator in 46 of them, including projects with international funding (Stanley Foundation, NARSAD, NIMH, European Commission, etc.) and several clinical drug trials.

Center for Media, Religion and Culture

Principal Investigator (P.I.): Stewart Hoover; Associate P.I: Lynn Schofield Clark; Research Associates: Diane F. Alters, Joseph G. Champ, Lee Hood, and Henrik Boes.

Far Ultraviolet Camera/Spectrograph

The principal investigator and chief engineer of the Far Ultraviolet Camera/Spectrograph was Dr. George Robert Carruthers, who was working at the US Naval Research Lab.

George R. Fischer

George Fischer served as principal investigator on field projects undertaken through his Park Service and FSU career in two areas of Gulf Islands National Seashore; Castillo de San Marcos, Fort Jefferson, and Fort Matanzas National Monuments in Florida; and Fort Frederica National Monument in Georgia.

George Wilding

He is currently the principal investigator on grants funded by the National Cancer Institute, the Department of Defense, and the Prostate Cancer Foundation.

ILLIAC IV

When Solomon ended, the principal investigator, Daniel Slotnick, joined the Illiac design team at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

James A. Thurber

He was the principal investigator of a seven-year grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts to the Campaign Management Institute to study campaign conduct and a four-year study of lobbying and ethics from the Committee for Economic Development.

John F. Kerin

For 7 years he was a principal investigator for conducting international multi-centre Food and Drug Administration regulated clinical trials for assessing the safety and efficacy of reproducive technology.

John Ruhl

He studies the CMB and is currently co-principal investigator on the Spider and South Pole Telescope projects.

Laurence E. Peterson

In addition to carrying out numerous experiments using high-altitude balloons, he was principal investigator on several NASA satellite experiments, including one on the OSO 1, one on OSO 3, two on OSO 7, the A4 experiment on HEAO 1, and co-investigator on the The High Energy X-ray Timing Experiment (HEXTE) flown on the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer.

Lunar Laser Ranging experiment

Carroll Alley (previous principal investigator of Apollo's reflector experiment)

Malcolm A. S. Moore

Dr. Moore is a noted oncologist and hematologist primarily known for being the Principal Investigator in the development of filgrastim, marketed by Amgen under the brand name of Neupogen.

Mario Acuña

Acuña was a principal investigator on magnetometer experiments flown on numerous missions over the years, from the Pioneer 11 Fluxgate Magnetometer Experiment in 1973 to the Mars Global Surveyor Magnetic Field Experiment in 1994, and the MESSENGER magnetometer.

Memorial Hermann–Texas Medical Center

Dr. James Grotta was principal investigator in Houston for the first major trial showing benefits of clot-busting drug Tissue Plasminogen Activator (tPA).

Michal Grinstein-Weiss

Grinstein-Weiss is currently the leading researcher of the Refund to Savings initiative, the largest savings experiment in the United States to date, and is the principal investigator of the first federal evaluation of the U.S. Department of Education’s (DOE) Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP).

Miron Livny

Miron is also a principal investigator and currently the facility coordinator for the Open Science Grid project, Director of the Center for High Throughput computing, CTO of Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, and Director of Core Computational Technology of the Morgridge Institute for Research.

Olga Zolina

2010 - Organization and planning of the WCRP Workshop on metrics and methodologies for estimation of extreme climate events, granted by WCRP, Willis RE, NASA, principal investigator.

2009-2012 – “Spatial and Temporal Scales and Mechanisms of Extreme Precipitation Events over Central Europe (STAMMEX)”, granted by German Research Foundation (DFG) (PN 50160119), principal investigator.

2012-2014 - Eurasian snow accumulation – implications for understanding changes in hydrological cycle, Granted by ANR and CNRS, principal investigator.

Resource-based relative value scale

William Hsiao was the principal investigator who organized a multi-disciplinary team of researchers, which included statisticians, physicians, economists and measurement specialists, to develop the RBRVS.

Richard A. Lutz

Lutz served as Principal Investigator and Science Director of the 2005 IMAX film Volcanoes of the Deep Sea, which was funded by the National Science Foundation and co-produced by Rutgers University.

Richard Coates

He is editor of the Survey of English Place-Names for Hampshire and principal investigator of the AHRC-funded project Family Names of the United Kingdom (FaNUK), running from 2010–14, of which Patrick Hanks is lead researcher.

Richard J. Mayer

Richard J. Mayer was the Principal Investigator on the projects of developing IDEF3, IDEF4 en IDEF6.

Ruth Nussinov

Ruth Nussinov is a Professor in the Department of Human Genetics, School of Medicine at Tel Aviv University and is the Senior Principal Scientist and Principal Investigator at the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health.

Shah Mahmoud Hanifi

Dr. Hanifi is serving as the Principal Investigator and Project Director for The Afghan Diaspora Remittance Project, a project funded by the Asian Development Bank and the American Institute of Afghanistan Studies.

Simon Goldhill

Simon Goldhill is the Principal Investigator for a new project on The Bible and Antiquity in 19th-Century Culture which is funded by the European Research Council and based at CRASSH (The Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities) in collaboration with the Classics Faculty at the University of Cambridge.

Spacecraft naming

Maria Zuber, principal investigator on the mission commented on the student's research before selecting the names and its appropriateness for a mission measuring gravity.

Ten Days' Wonder

The book was made into the 1971 film Ten Days' Wonder directed by Claude Chabrol and starring Orson Welles, Anthony Perkins and Marlène Jobert as Van Horn father, son and wife/stepmother (their first names changed to Theo, Charles and Helene), and Michel Piccoli as "Paul Regis", who (although there is no character named Ellery Queen) is the principal investigator.

Tom Gehrels

He was Principal Investigator for the Imaging Photopolarimeter experiment on the Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 first flybys of Jupiter and Saturn in the 1970s.

Vassilis Angelopoulos

Vassilis is currently the principal investigator of ELFIN and ELFIN-L at UCLA.

W. Timothy Liu

Dr. Liu is also a Principal Investigator on both the NSCAT and TOPEX/Poseidon Projects.

Wall Valley

Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) (2004) after Diana Wall, Natural Resources Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; United States Antarctic Program (USAP) soils biologist in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, 13 field seasons, 1989-2002, most of them as a principal investigator in the McMurdo Dry Valleys Long-Term Ecological Research program (MCM LTER).

Warren Teitelman

He started as ARPA Principal Investigator from 1968 to 1978, and was responsible for the design and development of BBN LISP at Bolt, Beranek, and Newman.

Wayne A.I. Frederick

He has served as the principal investigator for major collaborations with the National Cancer Institute, Johns Hopkins University, and local and national minority-serving oncology programs.