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 | Sponsor | Title | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2026 | ||||
| 2/2/2026 | Fraser Sim Pharmacology and Toxicology | Empire Discovery Institute | EDI - Investigate the role of EDI-298 in the cuprizone model of demyelination | $129,099 |
| 2/1/2026 | Rose-Anne Romano Department of Oral Biology | National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Res | Transcriptional regulatory Mechanisms of Salivary gland Regeneration in a defined genetic model | $440,275 |
| 2/1/2026 | Marc Halfon Biochemistry | Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Dev | Software tools for enhancer discovery | $480,300 |
| 2/1/2026 | Eugene Morse Pharmacy | Fogarty International Center | FS: HIV Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics Research Training Program | $151,973 |
| January 2026 | ||||
| 1/27/2026 | Venugopal Govindaraju Department of Computer Science and Engineering | New York Power Authority | AI Research and Exploration in Modernizing Clean Energy Planning, Operation, and Risk Management | $832,000 |
| 1/23/2026 | David Hostler Department of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences | Naval Sea Systems Command | Therman Stain During Diving in Warm, Contaminated Water | $209,482 |
| 1/1/2026 | Benny Joyner Pediatrics | Mother Cabrini Health Foundation | Addressing Health Disparities in Pediatric Subspecialty Care through Integrated Social Work Support | $194,800 |
| 1/1/2026 | David Lacy Chemistry | American Chemical Society | Synthesis of Mn(I) and Mn(0) Carbonyl Compounds with Balloon Pressure CO from Commercially Available Inorganic Mn(II) Salts | $125,000 |
| 1/1/2026 | Justin Bruner Philosophy | US Department of Education | From Campus to Community: Civil Discourse as a Catalyst for Local Civic Renewal | $3,992,032 |
| 1/1/2026 | Joseph Tulenko Geology | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: Elements - A Transparent-middle-layer computational and data management infrastructure for synoptic applications of cosmogenic-nuclide geochemistry | $280,188 |
| 1/1/2026 | Jeffrey Errington Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering | American Chemical Society | Adsorption of Water and Carbon Dioxide in Clay Minerals | $125,000 |
| 1/1/2026 | Brett Chiquet Department of Pediatric and Community Dentistry | Mother Cabrini Health Foundation | Improving the Oral Health for Patients with Special Needs Through Collaboration and Education | $470,000 |
| 1/1/2026 | Nojin Kwak VPIE Overseas Programs | Singapore Institute of Management Group Limited | RF/UB-SIM American Undergraduate Degree Studies Program | $7,633,987 |
| 1/1/2026 | David Kofke Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering | American Chemical Society | Molecular Simulation of Olefin/Paraffin Separations in Mixed-Matrix (Graphene Oxide + Metal Organic Polyhedra) Membranes | $125,000 |
| December 2025 | ||||
| 12/18/2025 | Elizabeth Wohlfert Microbiology and Immunology | National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Disease | Fellowship for Caleb Buerger: Investigating the role of peripheral nerve damage in chronic Toxoplasma infection | $105,719 |
| 12/1/2025 | Krishna Rajan Department of Materials Design and Innovation | Community Foundation of New Jersey | Collaboratory for a Regenerative Economy (CoRE) | $500,000 |
| 12/1/2025 | Andrew Talal Medicine | Empath Medical Innovations Incorporated | UB CAT: Multicomponent Facilitated Telemedicine Pilots | $114,000 |
| 12/1/2025 | Wei Sun Communicative Disorders and Sciences | Veterans Admin Western New York Healthcare Systems | VA IPA-Chen 2025-27 | $127,128 |
| November 2025 | ||||
| 11/25/2025 | Paschalis Alexandridis Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering | BASF Corporation | Foliar uptake of agrochemical formulations | $125,000 |
| 11/20/2025 | Siwei Lyu Department of Computer Science and Engineering | Meta Platforms Incorporated | Generative AI for Photorealistic Portrait Editing | $150,000 |
| 11/17/2025 | Kyle Kelleran Department of Emergency Medicine | Novel Biomarkers Catalyst Lab | Reference Interval Study of the NBCL ioPTH Assay | $231,401 |
| 11/16/2025 | Peter Elkin Department of Biomedical Informatics | Department of Veterans Affairs | IPA for Kendria Hall, MD | $137,374 |
| 11/5/2025 | Ralph Benedict Neurology | Sanofi Pharmaceuticals | Normalization Of Multinational Bicams Data: A Retrospective Regression-Based Analysis | $271,691 |
| 11/1/2025 | Yuguang Li Chemistry | PlasmaChem Solutions Incorporated | STTR: Plasma Electrochemical System for Cost Competitive Air-to-Ammonia Production | $106,750 |
| 11/1/2025 | Peter Elkin Department of Biomedical Informatics | Department of Veterans Affairs | Knowledge Based Systems - IPA Melissa Resnick | $111,628 |
| 11/1/2025 | Peter Elkin Department of Biomedical Informatics | Department of Veterans Affairs | Knowledge Based Systems - IPA Frank LeHouillier | $113,227 |
| 11/1/2025 | Vincent Tutino Department of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences | Neurovascular Diagnostics Incorporated | UB CAT: Enhancing Intracranial Aneurysm Detection and Risk Stratification through AI-Driven Blood Assays: The DREAM Study | $126,785 |
| 11/1/2025 | Sarah Ventre Pediatrics | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | New York State Children's Environment Health Center of Excellence | $335,000 |
| 11/1/2025 | Peter Elkin Department of Biomedical Informatics | Department of Veterans Affairs | Knowledge Based Systems - IPA Skyler Resendez | $120,214 |
| October 2025 | ||||
| 10/15/2025 | Anna Blumental-Perry Biochemistry | Empire Discovery Institute | JumpStart as a Novel Pathway to Modulate Mitochondrial Bioenergetics | $220,000 |
| 10/1/2025 | Leslie Bisson Orthopaedics | Mother Cabrini Health Foundation | 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 | Jamal Williams Department of Psychiatry | Foundation for Prader-Willi Research | Mapping the Genetic and Regulatory Architecture of the 15q11-q13 Region to Identify Neurodevelopmental Mechanisms for Prader-Willi Syndrome | $157,283 |
| 10/1/2025 | Virginia Flood Learning and Instruction | National Science Foundation | CAREER: Embodied Responsive Teaching in Undergraduate Physics | $666,146 |
| 10/1/2025 | Viviana Monje Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering | National Science Foundation | DMREF: Collaborative Research: Engineering Selective Membranes from Lipid-Polyelectrolyte Complexes | $312,359 |
| 10/1/2025 | Chi Zhou Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: Data Science and Digital Twin for Active Learning in Advanced Manufacturing | $214,000 |
| 10/1/2025 | Uttam Singisetti Department of Electrical Engineering | National Science Foundation | 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 | National Science Foundation | 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 | National Science Foundation | 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 | National Science Foundation | 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 | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: DMREF: NSF-DFG: NeuroTronics: Designer Doped emiconductors for Neuromorphic Bioelectronics | $350,000 |
| 10/1/2025 | Eric Sandvol Department of Earth Sciences | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: Burma Arc from Collision Kinematics to Subduction Tectonics as Observed from a Passive Seismic Experiment (BACKSTOP) | $163,462 |
| 10/1/2025 | Seyyedali Hosseinalipour Department of Electrical Engineering | University of Alabama at Huntsville | Collaborative Research: SaTC: CORE: Small: SHIELD: Enabling Multi-modal Distributed Learning over Aerial Networks | $280,000 |
| 10/1/2025 | John Beverley Philosophy | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Proto-OKN Theme 2: OKN Fabric | $141,263 |
| 10/1/2025 | Scott Sabella Counseling, School and Educational Psychology | US Department of Education | Preparing Rehabilitation Counselors to Meet 21st Century Agency and Client Needs | $993,290 |
| 10/1/2025 | Negar Elhami - Khorasani Department of Civil, Structural & Environmental Engineering | US Department of Energy | Smart Wildfire Arrival Forecasting Technology for Electrical Assets and Infrastructure | $2,399,998 |
| 10/1/2025 | Thomas Russo Medicine | Veterans Admin Western New York Healthcare Systems | IPA MacDonald 2025-2027 | $180,730 |
| 10/1/2025 | Mostafa Nouh Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering | US Navy Office of Naval Research | Physical Computing via Cognitive Material-Environment Interaction and Adaptive Wave Scattering | $440,562 |
| 10/1/2025 | Mary Nell Trautner Sociology | Ichigo Foundation | Expanding the UB College in Prison Program | $340,000 |
| 10/1/2025 | Cindy Sickora School of Nursing | New York Health Foundation | Expanding Access to Mobile Childhood Vaccine Clinics Across Western New York | $166,797 |
| September 2025 | ||||
| 9/30/2025 | Adnan Siddiqui Neurosurgery | Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc | UB Ionita AT 2025 Clinical Neuro | $109,437 |
| 9/26/2025 | Murali Ramanathan Pharmaceutical Sciences | Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation | Enhancing PEARL LLM for Clinical Protocol and Synopsis Recommendations | $490,000 |
| 9/25/2025 | Tiffany Jenzer Department of Emergency Medicine | National Institute for Alcohol Abuse & Alcoholism | 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 | National Institute of General Medical Sciences | Fellowship for Sukanya Srinivasan: Investigating the role of RNA helicase DHX36 in modulating aberrant RNA condensation | $176,536 |
| 9/20/2025 | Michael Buck Biochemistry | National Institute of General Medical Sciences | Defining the Rules for Pioneer Factor Nucleosome Engagement | $2,203,340 |
| 9/20/2025 | Kyler Knapp Community Health and Health Behavior CHHB | National Institute for Alcohol Abuse & Alcoholism | Enhancing alcohol use disorder recovery by capturing the dynamics of psychological well-being in daily life | $413,496 |
| 9/20/2025 | Jennifer Read Psychology | National Institute for Alcohol Abuse & Alcoholism | Dimensions of Emotion Regulation in PTSD-Related Drinking Risk: A Proof of Concept Study | $453,085 |
| 9/16/2025 | Jennifer Read Psychology | National Institute for Alcohol Abuse & Alcoholism | Friend-based Intervention to Reduce Alcohol-Involved Sexual Assault Risk | $3,019,506 |
| 9/16/2025 | Jennifer Read Psychology | National Institute for Alcohol Abuse & Alcoholism | Investigating Close-in-time Mediators and Moderators of SocialMedia Use, Alcohol related Content Exposure and Young Adult Drinking Behavior | $295,462 |
| 9/15/2025 | Danial Faghihi Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering | National Science Foundation | 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 | Vincent Tutino Department of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences | Neurovascular Diagnostics Incorporated | SBIR: Testing a Blood-Based Assay for Detection and Risk Assessment of Intracranial Aneurysms in Familial Cases | $116,822 |
| 9/15/2025 | Jochen Autschbach Chemistry | Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania | Expressing Tunable Emergent Quantum Phenomena in Molecular Materials with Strong Electron Correlations | $377,561 |
| 9/15/2025 | Amy Millen Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health | National Institute on Aging | Family of Origin Bilingualism and ADRD: An Epidemiologic Study of 377,000 Older Adults in the US | $862,259 |
| 9/14/2025 | Lucia Leone Community Health and Health Behavior CHHB | National Institute on Minority Health & Health Disparities | Comparative effectiveness of food prescription programs for food insecure families with young children | $3,682,425 |
| 9/9/2025 | Chelsie Armbruster Microbiology and Immunology | National Inst of Diabetes Digestive Kidney Disease | Impact of polymicrobial interactions and within-host adaptation on CAUTI pathogenesis | $3,766,323 |
| 9/3/2025 | Randall Rasmusson Physiology and Biophysics | Cytocybernetics | Real Time NEURON Simulation for Experimental Applications | $557,417 |
| 9/1/2025 | Doris Sajdak Center for Computational Research | National Science Foundation | POSE: Phase I: ColdFront: High Performance Computing (HPC) Community Allocation and Resource Ecosystem (HPC CARE) | $279,201 |
| 9/1/2025 | Matthew Faytak Linguistics | National Science Foundation | Corpus phonetics and speech technology infrastructure | $101,674 |
| 9/1/2025 | Ketki Lichade Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering | National Science Foundation | Roll-to-Roll Assisted Polymerization (RRP) Process for Printing Large-scale Micropatterned Surfaces with Multifunctional Properties | $469,995 |
| 9/1/2025 | Pinar Okumus Department of Civil, Structural & Environmental Engineering | National Science Foundation | BRITE Pivot: Additively Manufactured Novel Reinforcement Topologies to Transform Construction and Structural Response of Complex Concrete Elements | $600,000 |
| 9/1/2025 | Viviana Monje Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering | International Human Frontier Science Program Org | MetaCrystal: Metabolic principles of intracellular crystallization | $399,969 |
| 9/1/2025 | Ekaterina Noyes Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health | National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences | CTSA K12 Program State University of New York at Buffalo | $2,990,556 |
| 9/1/2025 | Jordana Maisel Urban and Regional Planning | Administration For Community Living | Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Universal Design Applications | $974,997 |
| 9/1/2025 | Alex Vecchio Department of Structural Biology | National Institute of General Medical Sciences | Structure and Assembly of Membrane Proteins at Tight Junctions | $2,165,190 |
| 9/1/2025 | Priya Banerjee Department of Physics | National Institute of General Medical Sciences | Quantifying Physiologic and Pathologic Viscoelastic Phases of Biomolecular Condensates by Correlative Force and Fluorescence Microscopy | $2,161,607 |
| 9/1/2025 | Jordana Maisel Urban and Regional Planning | Administration For Community Living | Addressing the Impacts of Climate Change on People with Disabilities | $200,000 |
| 9/1/2025 | Yun Wu Department of Biomedical Engineering | National Cancer Institute | Lung Cancer Early Detection and Immunotherapy Response Prediction and Monitoring with an Exo-PROS Liquid Biopsy Assay | $1,554,993 |
| 9/1/2025 | Edward Bednarczyk Pharmacy | Health Research Inc | Overdose Data to Action (OD2A) 2025-2026 | $115,000 |
| 9/1/2025 | Heather Hagenbuch Undergraduate Education | US Department of Education | TRIO Student Support Services | $1,635,875 |
| 9/1/2025 | Andrea Manyon Family Medicine | Health Resources and Services Admin | Model State-Supported Area Health Education Centers | $1,510,172 |
| 9/1/2025 | Rebecca Estarfaa Liberty Partnerships Program | NYS Education Department | Liberty Partnerships Program BY 2025-2026 | $522,864 |
| 9/1/2025 | Xiaozhong Wen Pediatrics | USDA Agricultural Research Service | PCHI: Effects of Pulse Consumption on Child Health | $100,164 |
| 9/1/2025 | Yue Huang Microbiology and Immunology | Sinsheimer Foundation | Mapping the antimicrobial resistome of human gut bacteria against antibiotics and non-antibiotic drugs | $125,000 |
| 9/1/2025 | Lora Cavuoto Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering | Georgia State University Research Foundation | Evaluating home-based technology for self-managing upper extremity rehabilitation at home by individuals with stroke | $119,355 |
| 9/1/2025 | Jonathan Lovell Department of Biomedical Engineering | American Parkinson Disease Association Inc | a-synuclein active immunotherapy with pS129 nanoliposomes | $100,000 |
| 9/1/2025 | Eric Sandvol Department of Earth Sciences | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: High-Resolution Structural and Source Imaging of Active Faults in Southern Turkiye | $200,194 |
| 9/1/2025 | Kaiyi Ji Department of Computer Science and Engineering | National Science Foundation | CAREER: Large-Scale Multi-Objective Learning: Novel Algorithms and Fundamental Theory | $549,999 |
| 9/1/2025 | Alexey Akimov Chemistry | National Science Foundation | CyberTraining: Implementation: Small: Modeling Quantum Dynamics of Excited States in Materials in the Era of Machine Learning | $500,000 |
| 9/1/2025 | Andrew Hirsch Department of Computer Science and Engineering | National Science Foundation | SHF: Small: Open Choreographies via Session Types | $600,652 |
| 9/1/2025 | Wanyi Nie Department of Physics | National Science Foundation | Exciton Dynamics in Proximitized Chiral Heterostructures | $550,000 |
| 9/1/2025 | Steven Diver Chemistry | National Science Foundation | Bimacrocyclic Ligands for Selective Catalytic Reactions | $249,982 |
| August 2025 | ||||
| 8/25/2025 | Xiaozhong Wen Pediatrics | Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Dev | Prevention of Postpartum Smoking Relapse and Related Health Consequences by Breastfeeding Promotion | $3,361,314 |
| 8/15/2025 | Sandra Flash NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program | National Science Foundation | Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) | $265,000 |
| 8/15/2025 | Zhongzheng Niu Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health | National Heart Lung and Blood Institute | 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 | Christine Schaner Tooley Biochemistry | National Institute of General Medical Sciences | Research and Career Training for Cellular, Biochemical and Molecular Scientists | $1,065,900 |
| 8/15/2025 | John Richard Chemistry | National Institute of General Medical Sciences | Studies on Enzyme Activation | $574,538 |
| 8/10/2025 | Adam Wilson Geography | NASA Shared Services Center | Fellowship for Festus Adgbola: Remote Sensing for Conservation: Linking Habitat Functional Diversity with Avian Species Richness | $150,000 |
| 8/7/2025 | Roberto Pili Medicine | Kaleida Health | Tumor biobank sample collection | $1,000,000 |
| 8/1/2025 | Christopher St. Vil BCSR Administration | Joyce Foundation | Mass Shootings: Re-defining and Conceptualizing the Definition | $414,981 |
| 8/1/2025 | Patricia Diaz-Moreno Department of Oral Biology | National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Res | 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 | National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Res | Development of an early tooth organoid via human induced pluripotent stem cells | $435,167 |
| 8/1/2025 | Thomas Grant Department of Structural Biology | National Institute of General Medical Sciences | Revolutionizing Protein Structure Determination with Advanced SWAXS Analysis | $2,181,805 |
| 8/1/2025 | Gunes Atilla-Gokcumen Chemistry | National Institute of General Medical Sciences | Mechanisms and consequences of lipid accumulations in necroptosis | $1,972,359 |
| 8/1/2025 | Amy Millen Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health | National Eye Institute | Nutritional Metabolomics in Age-Related Macular Degeneration and Retinal Integrity | $3,182,065 |
| 8/1/2025 | Eleonora Botta Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering | US Air Force Office of Scientific Research | Automated Low-Thrust Trajectory Optimization for Cislunar Transfers | $499,897 |
| 8/1/2025 | Paul Meyer Psychology | National Institute on Drug Abuse | Genetic substrates of cue-reactivity and cocaine motivation | $3,806,228 |
| 8/1/2025 | Kang Sun Department of Civil, Structural & Environmental Engineering | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | 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 | Venugopal Govindaraju Research and Economic Development | Research Foundation of City University of New York | Google Empire AI Research Grant | $100,000 |
| 8/1/2025 | Matthew Paul Psychology | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: A new perspective for understanding the varied actions of vasopressin on social development | $580,000 |
| 8/1/2025 | Kristin Poinar Earth Sciences | National Science Foundation | CAREER: Dimensionality reduction of glacier and ice-sheet processes using deep learning: Development, and evaluation | $782,557 |
| 8/1/2025 | Fabiola Henri Romance Languages and Literatures | National Science Foundation | Advancing linguistic research through speech technologies | $268,067 |
| 8/1/2025 | Krishna Rajan Department of Materials Design and Innovation | National Science Foundation | 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 | Jinwoo Park Biotechnical and Clinical Laboratory Sciences | National Institute on Drug Abuse | Interplay between limbic norepinephrine and dopamine circuits in sex differences in reward and aversion | $3,739,084 |
| July 2025 | ||||
| 7/28/2025 | Spyridon Stavrou Microbiology and Immunology | National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Disease | EHD4 and its role on HIV-1 infection | $437,896 |
| 7/24/2025 | Thomas Melendy Microbiology and Immunology | National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Disease | Role of the ETS1 proto-oncogene protein in polyomavirus transcription | $440,275 |
| 7/15/2025 | Jung Mi Lee Department of Oral Biology | National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Res | Gene Regulatory Mechanisms of Mll4 in Tooth Enamel Development | $320,200 |
| 7/14/2025 | Spyridon Stavrou Microbiology and Immunology | National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Disease | Determining the role of 90K on SARS-CoV-2 | $437,895 |
| 7/1/2025 | Liang Chen Pharmacy | Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | Innovative Antibiotic Combinations for Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae | $221,374 |
| 7/1/2025 | Heather Gardiner Family Medicine | Temple University of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education | A Mixed Methods Analysis of Pediatric Voice Therapy | $200,000 |
| 7/1/2025 | Yuguang Li Chemistry | Research Corporation for Science Advancement | Development of a Plasma Electrochemical System for Air-to-Ammonia Conversion | $120,000 |
| 7/1/2025 | Raphael Fraser Medicine | American Diabetes Association | A novel continuous glucose monitoring enhanced DPP intervention to prevent type 2 diabetes in adults with prediabetes | $600,000 |
| 7/1/2025 | Tim Thomay Department of Physics | National Science Foundation | EAGER: Exploratory Study of Hybrid Quantum Encoding in Ring Multicore Fibers at Visable Wavelengths | $100,000 |
| 7/1/2025 | Fabiola Henri Romance Languages and Literatures | National Science Foundation | IRES: Documenting and analyzing Creole languages | $686,700 |
| 7/1/2025 | Bing Gong Chemistry | National Science Foundation | Hollow Helices as Enzyme-Like Catalysts | $600,000 |
| 7/1/2025 | Per Stromhaug NYS Ctr of Excel in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences | NYS Department of Economic Development | HUB Center for Advanced Technology in Big Data and Health Sciences | $1,326,643 |
| 7/1/2025 | Per Stromhaug Business and Entrepreneur Partnerships | NYS Department of Economic Development | NYS Center of Excellence in Materials Informatics (CMI) 2025 - 26 | $1,000,000 |
| 7/1/2025 | Stylianos Andreadis Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering | National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Res | Fellowship for Laura Sherwood: Human Pluripotent Stem Cells and Organoids for Salivary Gland Regeneration | $105,745 |
| 7/1/2025 | Yungki Park Biochemistry | National Inst of Neurological Disorders & Stroke | Systematic discovery of Olig2 upstream regulators for central nervous system myelination | $440,275 |
| 7/1/2025 | Frederick Elliott Family Medicine | Health Resources and Services Admin | Primary Care Training and Enhancement -- Residency Training in Street Medicine | $2,500,000 |
| 7/1/2025 | Hang Jin Jo Department of Rehabilitation Science | NYS Department of Health | Spinal Cord Injury Research Trust Fund | $357,582 |
| 7/1/2025 | Dawn Cobb Undergraduate Education | NYS Education Department | STEP: Science & Technology Entry Program - 2024-2025 | $2,727,935 |
| 7/1/2025 | Frederick Elliott Family Medicine | NYS Office of Addiction Services and Supports | Addiction Professional Interdisciplinary Fellowship Program | $471,592 |
| 7/1/2025 | Dheeraj Roy Physiology and Biophysics | American Federation for Aging Research | Anterior thalamic mechanisms underlying cognitive decline with age | $148,000 |
| 7/1/2025 | Anna Blumental-Perry Biochemistry | American Heart Association Founders Affiliate | Cell type specific activation of endoplasmic reticulum sensor, ATF6, drives fibrotic remodeling in pericytes and SMC | $300,000 |
| 7/1/2025 | David Zlotnick Medicine | Vicora Incorporated | 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 | Xiaoyu Chen Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering | University of Louisville Research Foundation Incorporated | Manage Cardiac Surgery Associated Acute Kidney Injury with Advanced Machine Learning and Decision Optimization | $106,093 |
| 7/1/2025 | Jonathan Lovell Department of Biomedical Engineering | POP Biotechnologies Incorporated | UB CAT: Establishing a Personalized Cancer Vaccine Testing Pipeline | $150,000 |
| 7/1/2025 | Soo-Kyung Lee Biological Sciences | STXBP1 Foundation | STXBP1 Gene Therapy | $100,000 |
| 7/1/2025 | Vincent Tutino Department of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences | Neurovascular Diagnostics Incorporated | UB CAT: Validation of a molecular diagnostic to identify dangerous intracranial aneurysms | $105,000 |
| 7/1/2025 | Jonathan Lovell Department of Biomedical Engineering | POP Biotechnologies Incorporated | Advancing a liposome-displayed Gn protein vaccine for SFTS | $302,156 |
| June 2025 | ||||
| 6/10/2025 | Jill Kramer Department of Oral Biology | National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Res | Analysis of MyD88-mediated activation in Sjogren's disease | $2,152,850 |
| 6/10/2025 | Kinga Szigeti Neurology | IQVIA Incorporated | ONO-2020-02: A Phase II, 26-week, double-blind, placebo-controlled study to assess the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics, and efficacy of ONO-2020 in patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer¿s Disease | $119,478 |
| 6/5/2025 | Kedar Aras Physiology and Biophysics | National Heart Lung and Blood Institute | Role of cardiac clock misalignment in promoting arrhythmias in swine and donor human hearts | $3,410,687 |
| 6/4/2025 | Liang Chen Pharmacy | Hackensack Meridian Health | Dissecting the molecular targets to overcome beta-lactam resistance in M. abscessuscomplex | $362,250 |
| 6/1/2025 | Mark Janko Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health | National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Disease | Effectively Linking Molecular Informatics and Network Analytics to Reduce Malaria (ELIMINAR-Malaria) | $339,297 |
| 6/1/2025 | Sathy Balu-Iyer Pharmaceutical Sciences | National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Disease | Lipid mediated oral tolerance | $931,012 |
| 6/1/2025 | Margaret Deangelis Department of Ophthalmology | National Institute on Aging | Impact of Sex on Mitochondrial and Epigenetic Mechanisms in Age-Related Macular Degeneration | $2,154,024 |
| 6/1/2025 | Ian Bradley Department of Civil, Structural & Environmental Engineering | National Science Foundation | 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 | Nojin Kwak Asia Research Institute | Academy of Korean Studies | Building a Korean Studies Regional Hub for Research and Education | $873,497 |
| 6/1/2025 | Bernadette Gargano School of Law | NYS Department of Veteran Services | Veteran's Law Clinic Grant Program | $150,000 |
| 6/1/2025 | Paul Kostyniak Biotechnical and Clinical Laboratory Sciences | Rutgers University | Atlantic Center for Occupational Health and Safety Training | $232,779 |
| May 2025 | ||||
| 5/26/2025 | Bartholomew Roberts The Regional Institute | Monroe Community College | Finger Lakes ON-RAMP Business-Plan Study | $262,991 |
| 5/15/2025 | Daniel Woo Neurology | University of Cincinnati | Metabolomics of ICH recovery (METABOL-ICH) | $223,192 |
| 5/15/2025 | Kelly Baker Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health | Carter Center | 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 | $707,416 |
| 5/15/2025 | David Estrada Biochemistry | National Institute of General Medical Sciences | Structural regulation of Class-I and Class-II cytochrome P450 enzymes | $2,322,699 |
| 5/14/2025 | Diana Aga Chemistry | Keweenaw Bay Indian Community | Establishment of Baseline PFAS Contamination Levels Within the L'Anse Indian Reservation | $105,652 |
| 5/1/2025 | Maxim Bichuch Mathematics | National Science Foundation | 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 | Carr Astronautics Corporation | Hyperspectral Imaging and Edge Intelligence for Precision Agriculture | $110,005 |
| 5/1/2025 | Igor Puzanov Medicine | American Association for Cancer Research | Fellowship for Yu Fujiwara: AACR CORE Training Fellowship | $100,000 |
| 5/1/2025 | Nojin Kwak Asia Research Institute | Gyeonggi do Future Generation Foundation | Gyeonggi Province Youth Ladder Program 2025 | $174,323 |
| 5/1/2025 | Jochen Autschbach Chemistry | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: Understanding Spin-Forbidden Reactions Mediated by Relativistic Nuclear-Electronic Hyperfine Coupling | $231,794 |
| 5/1/2025 | Jochen Autschbach Chemistry | National Science Foundation | Exploring Response Properties of Molecules and Extended Systems Using Theoretical Methods | $537,800 |
| 5/1/2025 | Igor Zutic Department of Physics | National Science Foundation | Spin-Controlled Light-Emitting Diodes and Lasers | $398,500 |
| April 2025 | ||||
| 4/17/2025 | Zhenjia Wang Pharmaceutical Sciences | National Inst of Biomedical Imaging and Bioenginee | Active Drug Loading to Nanovesicles for Targeted Drug Delivery | $187,699 |
| 4/15/2025 | Ashlee Ford Versypt Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering | National Institute of General Medical Sciences | Quantitative Systems Biomedicine and Pharmacology for Multiscale Tissue Damage | $2,045,155 |
| 4/11/2025 | Jonathan Lovell Department of Biomedical Engineering | National Cancer Institute | Interstitial Chemophototherapy as an Intervention in Locally Advanced Pancreatic Cancer | $2,533,950 |
| 4/7/2025 | Steven Ray Chemistry | US Army Corps Engineers | 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 | National Cancer Institute | Interventions to Decrease Cancer Information Avoidance | $2,535,722 |
| 4/4/2025 | Kristin Tjaden Communicative Disorders and Sciences | Emory University | Deconstructing Conversation Training Therapy: Towards Enhanced Communication Outcomes | $181,533 |
| 4/2/2025 | Ajay Chaudhuri Medicine | Lilly USA LLC | A Phase 3, Multicenter, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Parallel-Group Study Evaluating the Efficacy and Safety of Tirzepatide Once Weekly Compared to Placebo in Adult Participants with Type 1 Diabetes and Obesity or Overweigh | $115,486 |
| 4/1/2025 | Patricia Diaz-Moreno Department of Oral Biology | National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Res | Identification of diffusible small molecules that regulate replication of Porphyromonas gingivalis | $442,750 |
| 4/1/2025 | Harim Tavares Dos Santos Department of Oral Biology | National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Res | The Role of Tufts Cells in Salivary Gland Immunity | $845,863 |
| 4/1/2025 | Saikat Boliar Microbiology and Immunology | National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Disease | FS: Virologic and immunologic impacts of active viral persistence in lung AMs of HIV-1-infected, cART-suppressed individuals | $609,872 |
| 4/1/2025 | Xin Zhang Department of Ophthalmology | National Eye Institute | Role of Intrinsic Neuroprotective Signaling in Diabetic Retina | $2,201,554 |
| 4/1/2025 | Carla Alvarez Rivas Department of Oral Biology | National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Res | The Role of CD4+ Memory T cell Subtypes in Periodontal Disease Recurrence | $1,311,849 |
| 4/1/2025 | Cristian Cuadra Gonzalez Department of Rehabilitation Science | American Heart Association Incorporated | Rewiring Coordination: Spinal and Vestibulospinal Reflex Modulation in upper limb of Stroke Survivors | $230,984 |
| 4/1/2025 | Stacey Johnson Business and Entrepreneur Partnerships | Amalgamated Foundation | Powering Climate & Infrastructure Careers Challenge | $200,000 |
| 4/1/2025 | Kristin Poinar Geology | Heising-Simons Foundation | Understanding the role of hydrology in the imminent retreat of Helheim Glacier, Greenland | $431,851 |
| 4/1/2025 | Jonathan Lovell Department of Biomedical Engineering | National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Disease | Developing a Multivalent Subunit Particle Vaccine Against Tuberculosis | $1,884,016 |
| March 2025 | ||||
| 3/27/2025 | Oliver Kennedy Department of Computer Science and Engineering | XAnalytix Systems LLC | STTR: Curating Uncertainty for Reliable Exploitation and Collaboration (CURE-C) | $199,999 |
| 3/25/2025 | Ajay Chaudhuri Medicine | Akero Therapeutics Incorporated | A Phase 3, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study Evaluating the Safety and Efficacy of Efruxifermin in Subjects with Compensated Cirrhosis Due to Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH)/Metabolic Dysfunction Associated... | $106,301 |
| 3/20/2025 | Bartholomew Roberts The Regional Institute | Central NY Reg Planning and Dev Brd | Climate Smart Communities Coordinator - NYS DEC | $324,531 |
| 3/18/2025 | Fraser Sim Pharmacology and Toxicology | Empire Discovery Institute | 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 | Florida Atlantic University | University Center of Excellence for Research and Education on Programmable Computing Fabric Solutions for Critical USAF Communications Needs | $1,069,452 |
| 3/15/2025 | Leonard Epstein Pediatrics | National Inst of Diabetes Digestive Kidney Disease | Developmental trajectories of reinforcer pathology and childhood obesity | $3,115,258 |
| 3/15/2025 | Javid Rzayev Chemistry | US Air Force Office of Scientific Research | (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 | US Navy Office of Naval Research | Autonomic Defense of Distributed Information Security in Dynamic and Adversarial Environments | $305,820 |
| 3/11/2025 | Hayden Hess Department of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences | US Navy Office of Naval Research | Interrogating the pathophysiology of decompression sickness through the skin | $980,957 |
| 3/1/2025 | Sophie Crooks Nowicki Geology | Heising-Simons Foundation | Ice sheet model intercomparison for CMIP7 (ISMIP7) | $2,099,905 |
| 3/1/2025 | Yifan Cheng Geology | University of Alaska Anchorage | RAISE: Urban Snow Modeling to Advance Resilience for Today and Tomorrow | $174,269 |
| 3/1/2025 | Bartholomew Roberts The Regional Institute | Center For Regional Strategies | Regional Revitaliztion Partnership - Intermediary | $195,500 |
