Li-Feng Jiang-Xie, PhD, a postdoctoral research associate in WashU Medicine Department of Pathology and Immunology, was awarded $10,000 as the winner of the 2024 WashU Medicine Bold Pioneer Award. Jetske van der Schaar, research associate at Amsterdam University Medical Center, and Nicolas Barthélemy, PhD, assistant professor at WashU Medicine Department of Neurology, were awarded $2,000 as distinguished finalists. The Bold Pioneer Award recognizes and encourages early career investigators who have demonstrated bold, pioneering research that is high-risk by virtue of being fundamentally different from standard approaches.