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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
11/1/2025
Vincent Tutino
Department of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences
UB CAT: Enhancing Intracranial Aneurysm Detection and Risk Stratification through AI-Driven Blood Assays: The DREAM Study $126,785
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
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
Mary Nell Trautner
Sociology
Expanding the UB College in Prison Program $340,000
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
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
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
Eric Sandvol
Department of Earth Sciences
Collaborative Research: Burma Arc from Collision Kinematics to Subduction Tectonics as Observed from a Passive Seismic Experiment (BACKSTOP) $163,462
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
Viviana Monje
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
DMREF: Collaborative Research: Engineering Selective Membranes from Lipid-Polyelectrolyte Complexes $312,359
10/1/2025
Mostafa Nouh
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Physical Computing via Cognitive Material-Environment Interaction and Adaptive Wave Scattering $440,562
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
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
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
9/20/2025
Jennifer Read
Psychology
Dimensions of Emotion Regulation in PTSD-Related Drinking Risk: A Proof of Concept Study $453,085
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
9/16/2025
Jennifer Read
Psychology
Friend-based Intervention to Reduce Alcohol-Involved Sexual Assault Risk $3,042,575
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
9/15/2025
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
9/14/2025
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
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
Ekaterina Noyes
Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health
CTSA K12 Program State University of New York at Buffalo $2,990,556
9/1/2025
Alex Vecchio
Department of Structural Biology
Structure and Assembly of Membrane Proteins at Tight Junctions $2,165,190
9/1/2025
Steven Diver
Chemistry
Bimacrocyclic Ligands for Selective Catalytic Reactions $249,982
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
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
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
Matthew Faytak
Linguistics
Corpus phonetics and speech technology infrastructure $101,674
9/1/2025
Xiaozhong Wen
Pediatrics
PCHI: Effects of Pulse Consumption on Child Health $100,164
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
Andrea Manyon
Family Medicine
Model State-Supported Area Health Education Centers $1,450,899
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
Christine Schaner Tooley
Biochemistry
Research and Career Training for Cellular, Biochemical and Molecular Scientists $1,065,900
8/15/2025
John Richard
Chemistry
Studies on Enzyme Activation $574,538
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
Fabiola Henri
Romance Languages and Literatures
Advancing linguistic research through speech technologies $268,067
8/1/2025
Laertis Ikonomou
Department of Oral Biology
Development of an early tooth organoid via human induced pluripotent stem cells $435,167
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
Christopher St. Vil
BCSR Administration
Mass Shootings: Re-defining and Conceptualizing the Definition $414,981
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
Matthew Paul
Psychology
Collaborative Research: A new perspective for understanding the varied actions of vasopressin on social development $580,000
8/1/2025
Paul Meyer
Psychology
Genetic substrates of cue-reactivity and cocaine motivation $3,806,228
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
Thomas Grant
Department of Structural Biology
Revolutionizing Protein Structure Determination with Advanced SWAXS Analysis $2,181,805
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
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
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
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
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
Per Stromhaug
Business and Entrepreneur Partnerships
NYS Center of Excellence in Materials Informatics (CMI) 2025 - 26 $1,000,000
7/1/2025
Fabiola Henri
Romance Languages and Literatures
IRES: Documenting and analyzing Creole languages $686,700
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
Yungki Park
Biochemistry
Systematic discovery of Olig2 upstream regulators for central nervous system myelination $440,275
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
Dheeraj Roy
Physiology and Biophysics
Anterior thalamic mechanisms underlying cognitive decline with age $148,000
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
Raphael Fraser
Medicine
A novel continuous glucose monitoring enhanced DPP intervention to prevent type 2 diabetes in adults with prediabetes $600,000
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
Hang Jin Jo
Department of Rehabilitation Science
Spinal Cord Injury Research Trust Fund $357,582
7/1/2025
Soo-Kyung Lee
Biological Sciences
STXBP1 Gene Therapy $100,000
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
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
Margaret Deangelis
Department of Ophthalmology
Impact of Sex on Mitochondrial and Epigenetic Mechanisms in Age-Related Macular Degeneration $2,142,272
6/1/2025
Sathy Balu-Iyer
Pharmaceutical Sciences
Lipid mediated oral tolerance $931,012
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
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
Mark Janko
Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health
Effectively Linking Molecular Informatics and Network Analytics to Reduce Malaria (ELIMINAR-Malaria) $339,297
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
Karthik Dantu
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Hyperspectral Imaging and Edge Intelligence for Precision Agriculture $110,005
5/1/2025
Igor Zutic
Department of Physics
Spin-Controlled Light-Emitting Diodes and Lasers $398,500
5/1/2025
Jochen Autschbach
Chemistry
Collaborative Research: Understanding Spin-Forbidden Reactions Mediated by Relativistic Nuclear-Electronic Hyperfine Coupling $231,794
5/1/2025
Jochen Autschbach
Chemistry
Exploring Response Properties of Molecules and Extended Systems Using Theoretical Methods $537,800
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
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
Kristin Tjaden
Communicative Disorders and Sciences
Deconstructing Conversation Training Therapy: Towards Enhanced Communication Outcomes $181,533
4/4/2025
Heather Orom
Community Health and Health Behavior CHHB
Interventions to Decrease Cancer Information Avoidance $2,535,722
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
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
Patricia Diaz-Moreno
Department of Oral Biology
Identification of diffusible small molecules that regulate replication of Porphyromonas gingivalis $442,750
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
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
Xin Zhang
Department of Ophthalmology
Role of Intrinsic Neuroprotective Signaling in Diabetic Retina $2,201,554
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
Jonathan Lovell
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Developing a Multivalent Subunit Particle Vaccine Against Tuberculosis $1,884,016
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
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
3/1/2025
Yifan Cheng
Geology
RAISE: Urban Snow Modeling to Advance Resilience for Today and Tomorrow $174,269
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
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
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
Bibhudatta Sahoo
Department of Electrical Engineering
DURIP MI3-Mixed-Signal Microwave Microelectronics for Intelligent Identification and Interception of Emitters $747,420
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
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
Janet Morrow
Chemistry
Octahedral iron coordination cages as T1 MRI probes $157,761
1/10/2025
Daesung Shin
Biotechnical and Clinical Laboratory Sciences
Selective galactosylceramidase ablation to study the pathogenesis of Krabbe leukodystrophy $2,013,407
1/6/2025
Mishaela Dinino
Communicative Disorders and Sciences
Relationship Between Speech Perceptual Learning and Speech Production in Parkinson's Disease $603,750
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
1/3/2025
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
Aviv Paz
Department of Structural Biology
Structure/Function Relationship of Organic Anion Transporting Polypeptide 1B3 $116,704
1/3/2025
Daniel Gewirth
University at Buffalo-Hauptman Woodward Institute
Structural Studies of the HER2-Grp94 Interaction in Breast Cancer $129,224
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
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
Sanjay Sethi
Medicine
CTSA UM1 State University of New York at Buffalo $28,423,247
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
Marianthi Markatou
Department of Biostatistics
Developing Methods for Clustering Longitudinal Mixed Type Data for Comparative Effectiveness Research $1,060,000
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
Diane Berdine
Family Medicine
High Risk Critical Time Intervention $338,081
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
Kathleen Heim
BCSR Administration
MOU: Children, Youth and Families Mental Health Evidence-based Practice Project $185,040
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
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
Jie Yu
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
The impact of hormonal modulation on systemic inflammation and central sensitization $368,544
1/1/2025
Timothy Hellwig
Political Science
Southern Political Science Association/Journal of Politics MOU $277,071
1/1/2025
Eunhee Park
School of Nursing
Measuring E-cigarette Use in Real Time via Wearable Sensor $456,749
1/1/2025
Joseph Tulenko
Geology
Collaborative Research: Frameworks - A transparent-middle-layer computational and data management infrastructure for polar radiocarbon chronology $491,643
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
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Featured Awards

$28.4 million | NIH CTSA UM1 State University of New York at Buffalo

Sanjay Sethi, MD.
This award will expand the Clinical Translational Science Institute’s efforts to improve health outcomes in Western New York.

Sanjay Sethi, MD,  
Professor and Chief, Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine; Assistant Vice President for Health Sciences, Department of Medicine, Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences

$10 million | IES Center for Early Literacy and Responsible AI (CELaRAI)

X. Christine Wang, PhD.
This award will help leverage artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to reading and writing education for K-2 students across the U.S.

X. Christine Wang, PhD, 
Director of the Fisher-Price Endowed Early Childhood Research Center, professor of learning instruction, Graduate School of Education