Recognizing exemplary achievements
Congratulations to UB’s outstanding faculty across all disciplines for driving positive change through groundbreaking research and teamwork. Here is where we celebrate the collective achievements and prestigious awards earned by our researchers in health, medicine, education, humanities, arts and sciences, sustainability and technology—strengthening the university’s legacy of excellence and innovation.
| Start Date | Investigator | Title | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2025 | ||||
| 11/16/2025 | Peter Elkin Department of Biomedical Informatics | IPA for Kendria Hall, MD | $137,374 | |
| October 2025 | ||||
| 10/15/2025 | Anna Blumental-Perry Biochemistry | JumpStart as a Novel Pathway to Modulate Mitochondrial Bioenergetics | $220,000 | |
| 10/1/2025 | Thomas Russo Medicine | IPA MacDonald 2025-2027 | $180,730 | |
| 10/1/2025 | Leslie Bisson Orthopaedics | Strengthening and Sustaining the Links in the Chain of Survival for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest (OHCA) while Developing a Future Healthcare Workforce in Western New York's (WNY) Low-Income Communities | $300,000 | |
| 10/1/2025 | Cindy Sickora School of Nursing | Expanding Access to Mobile Childhood Vaccine Clinics Across Western New York | $166,797 | |
| 10/1/2025 | Virginia Flood Learning and Instruction | CAREER: Embodied Responsive Teaching in Undergraduate Physics | $666,146 | |
| 10/1/2025 | Scott Sabella Counseling, School and Educational Psychology | Preparing Rehabilitation Counselors to Meet 21st Century Agency and Client Needs | $993,290 | |
| 10/1/2025 | Jamal Williams Department of Psychiatry | Mapping the Genetic and Regulatory Architecture of the 15q11-q13 Region to Identify Neurodevelopmental Mechanisms for Prader-Willi Syndrome | $157,283 | |
| 10/1/2025 | Chi Zhou Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering | Collaborative Research: Ethical Data Science and Digital Twin for Active and Evidence-Based Learning in Advanced Manufacturing | $200,000 | |
| 10/1/2025 | Uttam Singisetti Department of Electrical Engineering | Collaborative Research: Radiation-Tolerant and Thermally Managed High-Voltage Gallium Oxide Power Diodes for High-Power Space Electronics | $297,000 | |
| 10/1/2025 | Seyyedali Hosseinalipour Department of Electrical Engineering | Collaborative Research: Convergence of Optics and Radio Frequency in Large-Scale Integrated Air-Ground-Underwater Networks: Theoretical Framework and Experimental Validations | $525,000 | |
| 10/1/2025 | Zhangyu Guan Department of Electrical Engineering | Collaborative Research: CIRC: Dev: UnionLabs: Facilitating Shared Access to Heterogeneous Wireless Testbeds Through Grassroots-Driven Federation | $393,750 | |
| 10/1/2025 | Kristofer Reyes Department of Materials Design and Innovation | Collaborative Research: DMREF: Accelerated Discovery of Perovskite Nanomaterials Using Distributed Self-Driving Labs | $480,000 | |
| 10/1/2025 | Olga Wodo Department of Materials Design and Innovation | Collaborative Research: DMREF: NSF-DFG: NeuroTronics: Designer Doped emiconductors for Neuromorphic Bioelectronics | $350,000 | |
| 10/1/2025 | Mary Nell Trautner Sociology | Expanding the UB College in Prison Program | $340,000 | |
| 10/1/2025 | Viviana Monje Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering | DMREF: Collaborative Research: Engineering Selective Membranes from Lipid-Polyelectrolyte Complexes | $312,359 | |
| September 2025 | ||||
| 9/30/2025 | Adnan Siddiqui Neurosurgery | UB Ionita AT 2025 Clinical Neuro | $109,437 | |
| 9/26/2025 | Murali Ramanathan Pharmaceutical Sciences | Enhancing PEARL LLM for Clinical Protocol and Synopsis Recommendations | $490,000 | |
| 9/25/2025 | Tiffany Jenzer Department of Emergency Medicine | Examination of emotion regulation strategy use in an outpatient treatment program for adolescents with co-occurring disorders | $729,983 | |
| 9/22/2025 | Priya Banerjee Biotechnical and Clinical Laboratory Sciences | Fellowship for Sukanya Srinivasan: Investigating the role of RNA helicase DHX36 in modulating aberrant RNA condensation | $176,536 | |
| 9/20/2025 | Jennifer Read Psychology | Dimensions of Emotion Regulation in PTSD-Related Drinking Risk: A Proof of Concept Study | $453,085 | |
| 9/20/2025 | Kyler Knapp Community Health and Health Behavior CHHB | Enhancing alcohol use disorder recovery by capturing the dynamics of psychological well-being in daily life | $413,496 | |
| 9/20/2025 | Michael Buck Biochemistry | Defining the Rules for Pioneer Factor Nucleosome Engagement | $2,203,340 | |
| 9/16/2025 | Jennifer Read Psychology | Friend-based Intervention to Reduce Alcohol-Involved Sexual Assault Risk | $3,042,575 | |
| 9/16/2025 | Jennifer Read Psychology | Investigating Close-in-time Mediators and Moderators of SocialMedia Use, Alcohol related Content Exposure and Young Adult Drinking Behavior | $295,462 | |
| 9/15/2025 | Amy Millen Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health | Family of Origin Bilingualism and ADRD: An Epidemiologic Study of 377,000 Older Adults in the US | $862,259 | |
| 9/15/2025 | Danial Faghihi Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering | FDT-BioTech: Uncertainty Quantification in Deep Learning-Driven Digital Twins for Risk-Averse Decisions: Application in Type 1 Diabetes Management | $716,195 | |
| 9/15/2025 | Jochen Autschbach Chemistry | Expressing Tunable Emergent Quantum Phenomena in Molecular Materials with Strong Electron Correlations | $377,561 | |
| 9/14/2025 | Lucia Leone Community Health and Health Behavior CHHB | Comparative effectiveness of food prescription programs for food insecure families with young children | $3,682,425 | |
| 9/9/2025 | Chelsie Armbruster Microbiology and Immunology | Impact of polymicrobial interactions and within-host adaptation on CAUTI pathogenesis | $3,766,323 | |
| 9/3/2025 | Randall Rasmusson Physiology and Biophysics | Real Time NEURON Simulation for Experimental Applications | $557,417 | |
| 9/1/2025 | Steven Diver Chemistry | Bimacrocyclic Ligands for Selective Catalytic Reactions | $249,982 | |
| 9/1/2025 | Rebecca Coccia Liberty Partnerships Program | Liberty Partnerships Program BY 2025-2026 | $522,864 | |
| 9/1/2025 | Matthew Faytak Linguistics | Corpus phonetics and speech technology infrastructure | $101,674 | |
| 9/1/2025 | Alex Vecchio Department of Structural Biology | Structure and Assembly of Membrane Proteins at Tight Junctions | $2,165,190 | |
| 9/1/2025 | Heather Hagenbuch Undergraduate Education | TRIO Student Support Services | $1,635,875 | |
| 9/1/2025 | Jordana Maisel Urban and Regional Planning | Addressing the Impacts of Climate Change on People with Disabilities | $200,000 | |
| 9/1/2025 | Jordana Maisel Urban and Regional Planning | Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Universal Design Applications | $974,997 | |
| 9/1/2025 | Doris Sajdak Center for Computational Research | POSE: Phase I: ColdFront: High Performance Computing (HPC) Community Allocation and Resource Ecosystem (HPC CARE) | $279,201 | |
| 9/1/2025 | Eric Sandvol Department of Earth Sciences | Collaborative Research: High-Resolution Structural and Source Imaging of Active Faults in Southern Turkiye | $200,194 | |
| 9/1/2025 | Priya Banerjee Department of Physics | Quantifying Physiologic and Pathologic Viscoelastic Phases of Biomolecular Condensates by Correlative Force and Fluorescence Microscopy | $2,161,607 | |
| 9/1/2025 | Wanyi Nie Department of Physics | Exciton Dynamics in Proximitized Chiral Heterostructures | $550,000 | |
| 9/1/2025 | Viviana Monje Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering | MetaCrystal: Metabolic principles of intracellular crystallization | $399,969 | |
| 9/1/2025 | Pinar Okumus Department of Civil, Structural & Environmental Engineering | BRITE Pivot: Additively Manufactured Novel Reinforcement Topologies to Transform Construction and Structural Response of Complex Concrete Elements | $600,000 | |
| 9/1/2025 | Ketki Lichade Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering | Roll-to-Roll Assisted Polymerization (RRP) Process for Printing Large-scale Micropatterned Surfaces with Multifunctional Properties | $469,995 | |
| 9/1/2025 | Xiaozhong Wen Pediatrics | PCHI: Effects of Pulse Consumption on Child Health | $100,164 | |
| 9/1/2025 | Andrew Hirsch Department of Computer Science and Engineering | SHF: Small: Open Choreographies via Session Types | $600,652 | |
| 9/1/2025 | Kaiyi Ji Department of Computer Science and Engineering | CAREER: Large-Scale Multi-Objective Learning: Novel Algorithms and Fundamental Theory | $549,999 | |
| 9/1/2025 | Yun Wu Department of Biomedical Engineering | Lung Cancer Early Detection and Immunotherapy Response Prediction and Monitoring with an Exo-PROS Liquid Biopsy Assay | $1,236,637 | |
| 9/1/2025 | Jonathan Lovell Department of Biomedical Engineering | a-synuclein active immunotherapy with pS129 nanoliposomes | $100,000 | |
| 9/1/2025 | Andrea Manyon Family Medicine | Model State-Supported Area Health Education Centers | $1,450,899 | |
| 9/1/2025 | Ekaterina Noyes Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health | CTSA K12 Program State University of New York at Buffalo | $2,990,556 | |
| 9/1/2025 | Yue Huang Microbiology and Immunology | Mapping the antimicrobial resistome of human gut bacteria against antibiotics and non-antibiotic drugs | $125,000 | |
| 9/1/2025 | Alexey Akimov Chemistry | CyberTraining: Implementation: Small: Modeling Quantum Dynamics of Excited States in Materials in the Era of Machine Learning | $500,000 | |
| August 2025 | ||||
| 8/25/2025 | Xiaozhong Wen Pediatrics | Prevention of Postpartum Smoking Relapse and Related Health Consequences by Breastfeeding Promotion | $3,361,314 | |
| 8/15/2025 | Zhongzheng Niu Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health | Biological aging in early life: exploring developmental and environmental predictors of telomere length and impacts on subclinical atherosclerosis development | $2,608,135 | |
| 8/15/2025 | John Richard Chemistry | Studies on Enzyme Activation | $574,538 | |
| 8/15/2025 | Christine Schaner Tooley Biochemistry | Research and Career Training for Cellular, Biochemical and Molecular Scientists | $1,065,900 | |
| 8/15/2025 | Sandra Flash NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program | Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) | $265,000 | |
| 8/10/2025 | Adam Wilson Geography | Fellowship for Fesus Adgbola: Remote Sensing for Conservation: Linking Habitat Functional Diversity with Avian Species Richness | $150,000 | |
| 8/7/2025 | Roberto Pili Medicine | Tumor biobank sample collection | $1,000,000 | |
| 8/1/2025 | Paul Meyer Psychology | Genetic substrates of cue-reactivity and cocaine motivation | $3,806,228 | |
| 8/1/2025 | Matthew Paul Psychology | Collaborative Research: A new perspective for understanding the varied actions of vasopressin on social development | $580,000 | |
| 8/1/2025 | Kang Sun Department of Civil, Structural & Environmental Engineering | Fellowship for Jobaer Ahmed Saju: High-Resolution NOx Emission Estimation From TEMPO Observations: Advancing Air Pollution Monitoring and Public Health Analysis | $147,697 | |
| 8/1/2025 | Eleonora Botta Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering | Automated Low-Thrust Trajectory Optimization for Cislunar Transfers | $499,897 | |
| 8/1/2025 | Krishna Rajan Department of Materials Design and Innovation | Collaborative Research: ECLIPSE-PFAS: Electrical Discharge Plasma- Driven Multidisciplinary Approach for Complete Mineralization of PFAS & PFAS Precursors in Complex Aqueous Systems | $200,000 | |
| 8/1/2025 | Amy Millen Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health | Nutritional Metabolomics in Age-Related Macular Degeneration and Retinal Integrity | $3,182,065 | |
| 8/1/2025 | Kristin Poinar Earth Sciences | CAREER: Dimensionality reduction of glacier and ice-sheet processes using deep learning: Development, and evaluation | $782,557 | |
| 8/1/2025 | Gunes Atilla-Gokcumen Chemistry | Mechanisms and consequences of lipid accumulations in necroptosis | $1,972,359 | |
| 8/1/2025 | Fabiola Henri Romance Languages and Literatures | Advancing linguistic research through speech technologies | $268,067 | |
| 8/1/2025 | Jinwoo Park Biotechnical and Clinical Laboratory Sciences | Interplay between limbic norepinephrine and dopamine circuits in sex differences in reward and aversion | $3,739,084 | |
| 8/1/2025 | Christopher St. Vil BCSR Administration | Mass Shootings: Re-defining and Conceptualizing the Definition | $414,981 | |
| 8/1/2025 | Thomas Grant Department of Structural Biology | Revolutionizing Protein Structure Determination with Advanced SWAXS Analysis | $2,181,805 | |
| 8/1/2025 | Patricia Diaz-Moreno Department of Oral Biology | Using Novel Machine Learning Approaches to Understand Subgingival Microbiome Heterogeneity in Relation to Health and Disease | $243,260 | |
| 8/1/2025 | Laertis Ikonomou Department of Oral Biology | Development of an early tooth organoid via human induced pluripotent stem cells | $435,167 | |
| July 2025 | ||||
| 7/28/2025 | Spyridon Stavrou Microbiology and Immunology | EHD4 and its role on HIV-1 infection | $437,896 | |
| 7/24/2025 | Thomas Melendy Microbiology and Immunology | Role of the ETS1 proto-oncogene protein in polyomavirus transcription | $440,275 | |
| 7/15/2025 | Jung Mi Lee Department of Oral Biology | Gene Regulatory Mechanisms of Mll4 in Tooth Enamel Development | $320,200 | |
| 7/14/2025 | Spyridon Stavrou Microbiology and Immunology | Determining the role of 90K on SARS-CoV-2 | $437,895 | |
| 7/1/2025 | Frederick Elliott Family Medicine | Addiction Professional Interdisciplinary Fellowship Program | $471,592 | |
| 7/1/2025 | Frederick Elliott Family Medicine | Primary Care Training and Enhancement -- Residency Training in Street Medicine | $2,500,000 | |
| 7/1/2025 | David Zlotnick Medicine | UB CAT: GLP animal studies and Simulated Use Testing to Support FDA Submission of Vibrating Catheter to Improve Venuous Thrombus Ingestion | $200,000 | |
| 7/1/2025 | Vincent Tutino Department of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences | UB CAT: Validation of a molecular diagnostic to identify dangerous intracranial aneurysms | $105,000 | |
| 7/1/2025 | Fabiola Henri Romance Languages and Literatures | IRES: Documenting and analyzing Creole languages | $686,700 | |
| 7/1/2025 | Soo-Kyung Lee Biological Sciences | STXBP1 Gene Therapy | $100,000 | |
| 7/1/2025 | Yuguang Li Chemistry | Development of a Plasma Electrochemical System for Air-to-Ammonia Conversion | $120,000 | |
| 7/1/2025 | Bing Gong Chemistry | Hollow Helices as Enzyme-Like Catalysts | $600,000 | |
| 7/1/2025 | Liang Chen Pharmacy | Innovative Antibiotic Combinations for Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae | $221,374 | |
| 7/1/2025 | Per Stromhaug NYS Ctr of Excel in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences | HUB Center for Advanced Technology in Big Data and Health Sciences | $1,453,751 | |
| 7/1/2025 | Tim Thomay Department of Physics | EAGER: Exploratory Study of Hybrid Quantum Encoding in Ring Multicore Fibers at Visable Wavelengths | $100,000 | |
| 7/1/2025 | Stylianos Andreadis Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering | Fellowship for Laura Sherwood: Human Pluripotent Stem Cells and Organoids for Salivary Gland Regeneration | $105,745 | |
| 7/1/2025 | Jonathan Lovell Department of Biomedical Engineering | Advancing a liposome-displayed Gn protein vaccine for SFTS | $302,156 | |
| 7/1/2025 | Jonathan Lovell Department of Biomedical Engineering | UB CAT: Establishing a Personalized Cancer Vaccine Testing Pipeline | $150,000 | |
| 7/1/2025 | Dheeraj Roy Physiology and Biophysics | Anterior thalamic mechanisms underlying cognitive decline with age | $148,000 | |
| 7/1/2025 | Anna Blumental-Perry Biochemistry | Cell type specific activation of endoplasmic reticulum sensor, ATF6, drives fibrotic remodeling in pericytes and SMC | $300,000 | |
| 7/1/2025 | Yungki Park Biochemistry | Systematic discovery of Olig2 upstream regulators for central nervous system myelination | $440,275 | |
| 7/1/2025 | Dawn Cobb Undergraduate Education | STEP: Science & Technology Entry Program - 2024-2025 | $2,727,935 | |
| 7/1/2025 | Raphael Fraser Medicine | A novel continuous glucose monitoring enhanced DPP intervention to prevent type 2 diabetes in adults with prediabetes | $600,000 | |
| June 2025 | ||||
| 6/10/2025 | Jill Kramer Department of Oral Biology | Analysis of MyD88-mediated activation in Sjogren's disease | $2,152,850 | |
| 6/5/2025 | Kedar Aras Physiology and Biophysics | Role of cardiac clock misalignment in promoting arrhythmias in swine and donor human hearts | $3,410,687 | |
| 6/4/2025 | Liang Chen Pharmacy | Dissecting the molecular targets to overcome beta-lactam resistance in M. abscessuscomplex | $362,250 | |
| 6/1/2025 | Igor Zutic Department of Physics | Spin-Controlled Light-Emitting Diodes and Lasers | $398,500 | |
| 6/1/2025 | Ian Bradley Department of Civil, Structural & Environmental Engineering | CAREER: Elucidating organic and inorganic nitrogen processes in algal resource recovery: integrating wastewater process design with harmful algal bloom dynamics | $576,433 | |
| 6/1/2025 | Mark Janko Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health | Effectively Linking Molecular Informatics and Network Analytics to Reduce Malaria (ELIMINAR-Malaria) | $339,297 | |
| 6/1/2025 | Margaret Deangelis Department of Ophthalmology | Impact of Sex on Mitochondrial and Epigenetic Mechanisms in Age-Related Macular Degeneration | $2,142,272 | |
| 6/1/2025 | Nojin Kwak Asia Research Institute | Building a Korean Studies Regional Hub for Research and Education | $873,497 | |
| 6/1/2025 | Paul Kostyniak Biotechnical and Clinical Laboratory Sciences | Atlantic Center for Occupational Health and Safety Training | $232,779 | |
| 6/1/2025 | Sathy Balu-Iyer Pharmaceutical Sciences | Lipid mediated oral tolerance | $931,012 | |
| May 2025 | ||||
| 5/26/2025 | Bartholomew Roberts The Regional Institute | Finger Lakes ON-RAMP Business-Plan Study | $262,991 | |
| 5/15/2025 | David Estrada Biochemistry | Structural regulation of Class-I and Class-II cytochrome P450 enzymes | $2,322,699 | |
| 5/15/2025 | Kelly Baker Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health | A One Health Exposure Assessment Approach to Identify Spatial-temporal, Behavioral, and Ecological Strategies for the Eradication of Guinea Worm Disease in Dogs and Cats in Ethiopia | $773,522 | |
| 5/14/2025 | Diana Aga Chemistry | Establishment of Baseline PFAS Contamination Levels Within the L'Anse Indian Reservation | $105,652 | |
| 5/1/2025 | Nojin Kwak Asia Research Institute | Gyeonggi Province Youth Ladder Program 2025 | $174,323 | |
| 5/1/2025 | Jochen Autschbach Chemistry | Collaborative Research: Understanding Spin-Forbidden Reactions Mediated by Relativistic Nuclear-Electronic Hyperfine Coupling | $231,794 | |
| 5/1/2025 | Maxim Bichuch Mathematics | Collaborative Research: AMPS: Optimal Design and Implementation of Capacity Markets under Market Failure Using Bilevel Financial Market Models | $303,656 | |
| 5/1/2025 | Karthik Dantu Department of Computer Science and Engineering | Hyperspectral Imaging and Edge Intelligence for Precision Agriculture | $110,005 | |
| 5/1/2025 | Jochen Autschbach Chemistry | Exploring Response Properties of Molecules and Extended Systems Using Theoretical Methods | $537,800 | |
| April 2025 | ||||
| 4/17/2025 | Zhenjia Wang Pharmaceutical Sciences | Active Drug Loading to Nanovesicles for Targeted Drug Delivery | $187,699 | |
| 4/15/2025 | Ashlee Ford Versypt Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering | Quantitative Systems Biomedicine and Pharmacology for Multiscale Tissue Damage | $2,045,155 | |
| 4/11/2025 | Jonathan Lovell Department of Biomedical Engineering | Interstitial Chemophototherapy as an Intervention in Locally Advanced Pancreatic Cancer | $2,533,950 | |
| 4/7/2025 | Steven Ray Chemistry | Destruction of PFAS on spent Granular Activated Carbon via Thermal Desorption and Off-gas treatment with a 'Warm' Thermal Microwave Plasma | $250,000 | |
| 4/4/2025 | Heather Orom Community Health and Health Behavior CHHB | Interventions to Decrease Cancer Information Avoidance | $2,535,722 | |
| 4/4/2025 | Kristin Tjaden Communicative Disorders and Sciences | Deconstructing Conversation Training Therapy: Towards Enhanced Communication Outcomes | $181,533 | |
| 4/1/2025 | Jonathan Lovell Department of Biomedical Engineering | Developing a Multivalent Subunit Particle Vaccine Against Tuberculosis | $1,884,016 | |
| 4/1/2025 | Cristian Cuadra Gonzalez Department of Rehabilitation Science | Rewiring Coordination: Spinal and Vestibulospinal Reflex Modulation in upper limb of Stroke Survivors | $230,984 | |
| 4/1/2025 | Stacey Johnson Business and Entrepreneur Partnerships | Powering Climate & Infrastructure Careers Challenge | $200,000 | |
| 4/1/2025 | Kristin Poinar Geology | Understanding the role of hydrology in the imminent retreat of Helheim Glacier, Greenland | $431,851 | |
| 4/1/2025 | Saikat Boliar Microbiology and Immunology | FS: Virologic and immunologic impacts of active viral persistence in lung AMs of HIV-1-infected, cART-suppressed individuals | $609,872 | |
| 4/1/2025 | Harim Tavares Dos Santos Department of Oral Biology | The Role of Tufts Cells in Salivary Gland Immunity | $845,863 | |
| 4/1/2025 | Xin Zhang Department of Ophthalmology | Role of Intrinsic Neuroprotective Signaling in Diabetic Retina | $2,201,554 | |
| 4/1/2025 | Carla Alvarez Rivas Department of Oral Biology | The Role of CD4+ Memory T cell Subtypes in Periodontal Disease Recurrence | $1,311,849 | |
| 4/1/2025 | Patricia Diaz-Moreno Department of Oral Biology | Identification of diffusible small molecules that regulate replication of Porphyromonas gingivalis | $442,750 | |
| March 2025 | ||||
| 3/27/2025 | Oliver Kennedy Department of Computer Science and Engineering | STTR: Curating Uncertainty for Reliable Exploitation and Collaboration (CURE-C) | $199,999 | |
| 3/20/2025 | Bartholomew Roberts The Regional Institute | Climate Smart Communities Coordinator - NYS DEC | $324,531 | |
| 3/18/2025 | Fraser Sim Pharmacology and Toxicology | Investigating the role of novel p38 gamma inhibitors on human OPC differentiation in vitro | $101,840 | |
| 3/17/2025 | Nicholas Mastronarde Department of Electrical Engineering | University Center of Excellence for Research and Education on Programmable Computing Fabric Solutions for Critical USAF Communications Needs | $1,067,374 | |
| 3/15/2025 | Leonard Epstein Pediatrics | Developmental trajectories of reinforcer pathology and childhood obesity | $3,115,258 | |
| 3/15/2025 | Javid Rzayev Chemistry | (DURIP-25) Characterization of Size and Structure of Polymeric Building Blocks Used for the Preparation of Nanostructured Materials | $431,482 | |
| 3/13/2025 | Haipeng Cai Department of Computer Science and Engineering | Autonomic Defense of Distributed Information Security in Dynamic and Adversarial Environments | $311,709 | |
| 3/11/2025 | Hayden Hess Department of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences | Interrogating the pathophysiology of decompression sickness through the skin | $980,957 | |
| 3/1/2025 | Yifan Cheng Geology | RAISE: Urban Snow Modeling to Advance Resilience for Today and Tomorrow | $174,269 | |
| 3/1/2025 | Bartholomew Roberts The Regional Institute | Regional Revitaliztion Partnership - Intermediary | $195,500 | |
| 3/1/2025 | Sophie Crooks Nowicki Geology | Ice sheet model intercomparison for CMIP7 (ISMIP7) | $2,099,905 | |
| February 2025 | ||||
| 2/28/2025 | Harim Tavares Dos Santos Department of Oral Biology | Nikon NiE Fully Motorized Upright Research Microscope | $145,503 | |
| 2/21/2025 | Christopher Daly Pharmacy | Addressing Vaccine Confidence and Uptake in Urban New York Community Pharmacies Among Socially Vulnerable Patients: An Implementation Science Approach | $153,628 | |
| 2/18/2025 | Benjamin Hilligas Educational Opportunity Center | ESD Workforce Development | $1,997,413 | |
| 2/11/2025 | Timothy Cook Chemistry | SBIR Phase II: Production of Renewable High Energy Density Fuels | $300,000 | |
| 2/1/2025 | Bibhudatta Sahoo Department of Electrical Engineering | DURIP MI3-Mixed-Signal Microwave Microelectronics for Intelligent Identification and Interception of Emitters | $747,420 | |
| 2/1/2025 | Omer Gokcumen Biological Sciences | Evolutionary and functional impact of common genomic structural variations | $2,009,570 | |
| 2/1/2025 | Krishna Rajan Department of Materials Design and Innovation | Center for Accelerated Innovation through Materials (AIM): Enabling the Transition to a Clean Energy Economy (AIM for CleanEnergy) | $1,250,000 | |
| 2/1/2025 | Haipeng Cai Department of Computer Science and Engineering | SHF: Small: Practical Dynamic Program Reasoning Across Language Boundaries | $439,112 | |
| 2/1/2025 | Aviv Paz Department of Structural Biology | Structure meets function for OATP1B1, a transporter involved in the uptake of endogenous and xenobiotic materials and drugs | $1,050,041 | |
| 2/1/2025 | Xin Zhang Department of Ophthalmology | Nuclear encoded Humanin Isoforms and Mitochondria in Age-related Macular Degeneration | $440,838 | |
| January 2025 | ||||
| 1/31/2025 | Stacey Johnson Business and Entrepreneur Partnerships | Jobs for the Future Climate-Resilient Employees for a Sustainable Tomorrow (JFF CREST) | $750,000 | |
| 1/22/2025 | Bartholomew Roberts The Regional Institute | Buffalo Equity In Street Trees (B.E.S.T) Program-Community Outreach, Group 1110 | $252,780 | |
| 1/16/2025 | Stanley Schwartz Medicine | VA-IPA Ravikumar Aalinkeel | $100,000 | |
| 1/15/2025 | Susan Clark Environment and Sustainability | Heat Emergency Planning for Erie County, NY | $100,000 | |
| 1/15/2025 | Susan Clark Environment and Sustainability | The Buffalo Neighborhood Mobilization Hubs Plan | $141,251 | |
| 1/13/2025 | Gunes Atilla-Gokcumen Chemistry | Defining the neurotoxic and neurodevelopmental health risks of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances | $2,653,556 | |
| 1/10/2025 | Daesung Shin Biotechnical and Clinical Laboratory Sciences | Selective galactosylceramidase ablation to study the pathogenesis of Krabbe leukodystrophy | $2,013,407 | |
| 1/10/2025 | Janet Morrow Chemistry | Octahedral iron coordination cages as T1 MRI probes | $157,761 | |
| 1/6/2025 | Chunming Qiao Department of Computer Science and Engineering | Smart Transportation Innovation for Connectivity, Automation, Resiliency and Equity (TI-CARE) | $2,000,000 | |
| 1/6/2025 | Mishaela Dinino Communicative Disorders and Sciences | Relationship Between Speech Perceptual Learning and Speech Production in Parkinson's Disease | $603,750 | |
| 1/3/2025 | Sarah Bowman Biochemistry | National HTX Center: Enabling Access to State-of-the-Art Crystallization Capabilities | $1,567,639 | |
| 1/3/2025 | Sarah Bowman Biochemistry | New techniques for detectlng and handling nanocrystals for cutting edge structural biology methods | $644,000 | |
| 1/3/2025 | Daniel Gewirth University at Buffalo-Hauptman Woodward Institute | N-glycosylation as a regulator of Grp94 Function and Activity | $1,130,260 | |
| 1/3/2025 | Daniel Gewirth University at Buffalo-Hauptman Woodward Institute | Structural Studies of the HER2-Grp94 Interaction in Breast Cancer | $166,725 | |
| 1/3/2025 | Aviv Paz Department of Structural Biology | Structure/Function Relationship of Organic Anion Transporting Polypeptide 1B3 | $116,704 | |
| 1/3/2025 | Edward Snell Department of Materials Design and Innovation | Understanding the mechanism and health consequences of low-dose radiation at a molecular level | $1,422,045 | |
| 1/1/2025 | Kathleen Heim BCSR Administration | MOU: Children, Youth and Families Mental Health Evidence-based Practice Project | $185,040 | |
| 1/1/2025 | Marcelo Araujo Outreach Clinics | University at Buffalo's Mobile Outreach Program - Improving Access to Preventive Healthcare in Buffalo and Western New York | $250,000 | |
| 1/1/2025 | Marianthi Markatou Department of Biostatistics | Developing Methods for Clustering Longitudinal Mixed Type Data for Comparative Effectiveness Research | $1,060,000 | |
| 1/1/2025 | Timothy Hellwig Political Science | Southern Political Science Association/Journal of Politics MOU | $277,071 | |
| 1/1/2025 | Jessica Reynolds Medicine | Thrombo-Inflammation Drives Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) in Patients with HIV (PWH) on Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) | $450,000 | |
| 1/1/2025 | Diane Berdine Family Medicine | High Risk Critical Time Intervention | $338,081 | |
| 1/1/2025 | Sanjay Sethi Medicine | CTSA UM1 State University of New York at Buffalo | $28,423,247 | |
| 1/1/2025 | Laurene Tumiel-Berhalter Family Medicine | Implementation of a Community Feedback System, Comprehensive Needs Assessment, and Evaluation of Opioid Settlement Fund Usage in Erie County, NY | $1,472,966 | |
| 1/1/2025 | Satrajit Sinha Biochemistry | Fellowship (Fellow, Jennifer Sosa): Single-cell profiling of Follistatin within the Tumor Landscape of Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma | $104,030 | |
| 1/1/2025 | Joseph Tulenko Geology | Collaborative Research: Frameworks - A transparent-middle-layer computational and data management infrastructure for polar radiocarbon chronology | $491,643 | |
| 1/1/2025 | Katie Stalker BCSR Administration | The Buffalo Mental Health Service Professional Fellowship: Training School Social Workers to Address the Youth Mental Health Crisis | $3,592,936 | |
| 1/1/2025 | Eunhee Park School of Nursing | Measuring E-cigarette Use in Real Time via Wearable Sensor | $456,749 | |
| 1/1/2025 | Kaihang Shi Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering | Understanding Pore Network Effects on Methane Diffusion in Microporous Polymers via High-Throughput Simulations and Machine Learning | $110,000 | |
| 1/1/2025 | Jie Yu Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology | The impact of hormonal modulation on systemic inflammation and central sensitization | $368,544 | |
| December 2024 | ||||
| 12/20/2024 | Scott Broderick Department of Materials Design and Innovation | Accelerated Discovery, Design, and Development of Materials for Extreme Environments | $125,000 | |
| 12/17/2024 | Andrew Lombardo Biochemistry | The Cytoskeletal Drivers of Cell Polarity | $1,890,833 | |
| 12/6/2024 | Zhen Yan Physiology and Biophysics | IPA-Yong Ren | $137,000 | |
| 12/2/2024 | Zhen Yan Physiology and Biophysics | IPA-Ping Zhong | $100,750 | |
| 12/2/2024 | Joseph Izzo Medicine | A Phase IIb Two-Cohort, Randomised, Placebo controlled, Double blind, Multi-centre, Dose-ranging Study of AZD5462 in Stable Patients with Chronic Heart Failure | $115,382 | |
| 12/2/2024 | Charles Berenson Medicine | IPA - Lorrie Mandell | $129,000 | |
| 12/1/2024 | Chunming Qiao Department of Computer Science and Engineering | Collaborative Research: SaTC: CORE: Small: NSF-DST: Towards Secure and Resilient Collaborative Autonomous Driving (CoAD) | $300,726 | |
| 12/1/2024 | Alexandra Oprea Philosophy | Inclusive Immigration and Democratic Revival in a Rust Belt City | $500,000 | |
| 12/1/2024 | Jun Liu Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering | Miniaturized high-voltage power source for WaferSat propulsion system | $100,000 | |
| 12/1/2024 | Bhaskar Das Pharmaceutical Sciences | Blocking Pathologic Crosstalk Between Podocytes and Endothelial Cells in FSGS | $1,232,000 | |
| 12/1/2024 | Satheesh Kumar Poolakkad Sankaran Medicine | Facilitate equitable access to cancer screening and care through culturally tailored interventions for African Americans in Buffalo, NY | $373,600 | |
| 12/1/2024 | Gustavo Arrizabalaga Microbiology and Immunology | Regulation of mitochondrial morphodynamics in Toxoplasma gondii | $149,294 | |
| 12/1/2024 | Peter Elkin Department of Biomedical Informatics | FY25 University at Buffalo IPA - Skyler Resendez | $106,384 | |
| November 2024 | ||||
| 11/20/2024 | Christopher Nebelecky Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering | SBIR: High-Order Statistical Uncertainty Management for Cislunar Space Phase II (HOSUM) | $254,940 | |
