Current and Past Awards
See the full list of projects (2010 to present) awarded pilot studies funding, sorted by year and highlighting the awardees, Buffalo Translational Consortium institution, and title of project.
2026 Pilot Study Awards
Awardees | BTC Institution | Title of Project |
|---|---|---|
Ethan Abel, PhD Michael Feigin, PhD | Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center | Targeting Tumor-intrinsic and CAF-dependent MET-Signaling to Overcome KRAS-inhibitor Resistance |
Carla Alvarez Rivas, DDS, PhD Keith Kirkwood, DDS, PhD Norma J. Nowak, PhD | School of Dental Medicine Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences | Clonal and Spatial Immune Mapping in Human Periodontitis |
Katherine N. Balantekin, PhD, RD Leonard H. Epstein, PhD Elizabeth G. Mietlicki-Baase, PhD Derek Daniels, PhD Husam A. Ghanim, PhD Paul J. Meyer, PhD J. Luke Pryor, PhD, ATC, CSCS | School of Public Health and Health Professions Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences | Dehydration and GLP-1-based Medications |
Andrew Baumgartner, MD Sabrina Casucci, PhD, MBA Kelly E Tenzek, PhD Raj Sharman, PhD Ranjit Singh, MB BChir, MBA Robert Wahler, PharmD Haowen Hsu, PharmD, MPH | Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences School of Engineering and Applied Sciences School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences | Improving Geriatric Patient Safety at Hospital Discharge Using Patient-friendly Artificial Intelligence-modified Discharge Instructions (AIM-DI) |
Renato Casarin, DDS, MSC, PhD Patricia Diaz-Moreno, DDS, MSC, PhD George Chlipala, BS, PhD | School of Dental Medicine | Defining Potential Determinants Targets for Peri-implant Disease Surveillance |
Patrick Kenney, MD, MS Thomas Russo, MD Nicholas Smith, PharmD, PhD | Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences | An Ex Vivo Infection Model to Explore Bacteriophage, Bacteria, and Mammalian Interactions |
Vishnu Lokhande, PhD Robert Zivadinov, MD, PhD | School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences | Progressive Deep Learning Adaptation for Robust Multi-institutional Alzheimer’s Disease MRI Detection |
William Mangione, PhD Zackary Falls, PhD Laura Crawford, PhD Jun-Xu Li, PhD Ram Samudrala, PhD | Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences | Integrated Optimization of Polypharmacologic Compounds for the Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder |
Andrew H. Rogers, PhD Ajay Gupta, MD, MS Kara M. Kelly, MD Jeffrey M. Lackner, PsyD | Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center | Mechanisms of Cancer-related Pain and Opioid Use Among Adolescents and Young Adult Sarcoma Survivors: Pilot Feasibility Study |
Lin Zhang, PhD Jun Xia, PhD Tyler Hammond, MD, PhD | Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences | Wearable Multimodal Ultrasound and Photoacoustic Patch for Monitoring Hypoxemia in the Fetal Brain |