University at Buffalo (UB)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | ||||
| 9/1/2026 | Andrew Gulick Department of Structural Biology | National Institute of General Medical Sciences | Using the structures of natural product biosynthetic enzymes to guide the discovery of novel molecules | $2,174,460 |
| 9/1/2026 | Zhibin Cui Department of Oral Biology | National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Res | Role of CASP8 and HRAS co-mutation in oral epithelium malignant transformation | $320,200 |
| 9/1/2026 | School of Nursing | National Institute on Aging | SAGE: Silver Linings and Aging Experiences Among Midlife Women Living with HIV and Diabetes | $474,198 |
| 9/1/2026 | Yinyin Ye Department of Civil, Structural & Environmental Engineering | US Department of Energy | PHOCUS: Phage-host interaction programming for anaerobic micrObiome Control Using AI-guided design | $315,851 |
| 9/1/2026 | Jiayu Peng Department of Materials Design and Innovation | US Department of Energy | CLEAR-AI: Closed-Loop, Efficient, Adaptive, and Robust AI for Agentic Chemical Manufacturing | $549,999 |
| 9/1/2026 | Autumn Holmes Microbiology and Immunology | Howard Hughes Medical Institute | The impact of tissue microenvironment on monocyte permissiveness to arthritogenic alphavirus infections | $1,680,000 |
| 9/1/2026 | Lora Cavuoto Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | University at Buffalo, SUNY Occupational Safety and Health Training Project | $744,303 |
| 9/1/2026 | Riana Pryor Department of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | Work Design Interventions for Heat Resilience in Older Workers | $2,445,524 |
| 9/1/2026 | Marcus Thomeer Pediatrics | Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation | Institute for Autism Research at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences: Increasing Access to Effective Programs for Autistic Children and their Families in Diverse and Underserved Communities | $150,000 |
| 9/1/2026 | Jordana Maisel Urban and Regional Planning | Administration For Community Living | Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Universal Design Applications | $974,995 |
| 9/1/2026 | Amanda Ziegler Family Medicine | American Diabetes Association | Translating and testing an evidence-based, AI-powered mobile health care model integration into clinical practice for adolescent weight management and diabetes prevention | $600,000 |
| 9/1/2026 | Jennifer Campbell Medicine | American Diabetes Association | CGM enhanced digital literacy and navigation for low-income adults with T2DM in primary care | $599,982 |
| 9/1/2026 | Neeti Pokhriyal Research and Economic Development | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: EAGER: NAIRR Pilot: An AI infrastructure to advance research in reducing poverty and informing social policy | $124,710 |
| 9/1/2026 | Noemi Waight Learning and Instruction | National Science Foundation | STEMCyclists: Advancing Youth STEM Learning through Bicycle Engineering and Biomechanics | $1,239,399 |
| 9/1/2026 | Xudong Fan Department of Civil, Structural & Environmental Engineering | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: GCR: Bioengineered Approaches to Recover Critical Minerals and Produce Sustainable Silicon-Based Materials from Silicon-Rich Wastes | $495,275 |
| 9/1/2026 | Sayanti Mukherjee Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: FIRE-WUI: REKINDLE: Resilient Engineering through Knowledge Integration for NetworkeD Lifelines and Ecosystems | $709,963 |
| 9/1/2026 | Seyyedali Hosseinalipour Department of Electrical Engineering | National Science Foundation | CAREER: Internet of Foundation Models (IoFM): Expanding the Frontiers of Distributed Learning in Heterogeneous Networks | $550,000 |
| 9/1/2026 | Wenyao Xu Department of Computer Science and Engineering | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: CyberTraining: Implementation: Small: Upskilling Future Workforce for Agentic Cyberinfrastructure-Enabled Manufacturing Ecosystem | $330,000 |
| 9/1/2026 | Jill Szczesek Biochemistry | National Science Foundation | Identifying a Transferable Leadership and Organizational Learning Model from the Collective Experience of NSF Science and Technology Centers | $274,109 |
| 9/1/2026 | Sangwoo Shin Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering | American Chemical Society | Chemically Driven Bidirectional Droplet Transport Under Confinement | $125,000 |
| 9/1/2026 | Jiayu Peng Department of Materials Design and Innovation | American Chemical Society | Data-Driven Design Principles of Non-Dilute Alloys with Exotic Electronic Orbitals for Alkane Activation | $110,000 |
| 9/1/2026 | Elizabeth Bowen BCSR Administration | National Institute for Alcohol Abuse & Alcoholism | The Honoring and Examining Alcohol Recovery (HEAR) Study: A Longitudinal Examination of Recovery Capital and Its Association with Recovery Outcomes | $2,135,025 |
| 9/1/2026 | Liang Chen Pharmacy | National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Disease | Novel Dual-Acting Therapeutics Against High-Threat K. pneumoniae | $799,743 |
| 9/1/2026 | Soo-Kyung Lee Biological Sciences | National Inst of Neurological Disorders & Stroke | Mitochondrial gene regulation in CNS development | $3,014,166 |
| August 2026 | ||||
| 8/24/2026 | Leonard Egede Medicine | National Inst of Diabetes Digestive Kidney Disease | Conditional Cash Transfer and Basic Needs Resolution Intervention for Low Income Adults with T2DM | $3,854,904 |
| 8/20/2026 | Stylianos Andreadis Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering | National Heart Lung and Blood Institute | Engineering Self-healing, Cell-free and Regenerating Vascular Grafts | $2,849,116 |
| 8/20/2026 | Prashant Sankaran Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering | National Inst of Diabetes Digestive Kidney Disease | Reducing Geographic Disparity in Access to Kidney Transplantation Using Artificial Intelligence and Operations Research | $1,563,353 |
| 8/15/2026 | Daozhi Han Mathematics | National Science Foundation | Efficient high-order accurate numerical schemes for stationary statistical behavior of complex systems | $219,478 |
| 8/15/2026 | Elizabeth Thomas Earth Sciences | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: CAIG: Advancing long-term temperature reconstruction using physics-informed neural networks through lake model emulation | $525,530 |
| 8/15/2026 | Haipeng Cai Department of Computer Science and Engineering | National Science Foundation | CyberAI Innovation: Workforce Development for Integrated AI and Cybersecurity in Healthcare Systems | $500,000 |
| 8/13/2026 | Ruogang Zhao Department of Biomedical Engineering | National Cancer Institute | Engineered GLICO model to study mechanometabolic dynamics at the GBM-brain interface | $3,314,357 |
| 8/12/2026 | Ann-Marie Torregrossa Psychology | National Inst on Deafness & Other Comm Disorders | Determining the role of salivary proteins in taste and feeding | $3,016,154 |
| 8/7/2026 | Sarah Bowman Biochemistry | National Institute of General Medical Sciences | National Crystallization Center: Enabling Access to State-of-the-Art Crystallization Capabilities | $5,516,457 |
| 8/5/2026 | Feng Qin Physiology and Biophysics | National Institute of General Medical Sciences | Mechanisms of Heat Sensing by Nociceptive Vallinoid Receptors | $2,178,335 |
| 8/4/2026 | Gregory Loney Psychology | National Institute for Alcohol Abuse & Alcoholism | Neurobiological Factors Contributing to Tolerance to the Adverse Consequences of Alcohol | $2,120,500 |
| 8/1/2026 | Wenyao Xu Department of Computer Science and Engineering | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: CyberAI Innovation: A Scalable Pedagogy for Trustworthy Cyber-Physical Manufacturing Systems | $330,000 |
| 8/1/2026 | Daniel Smith School of Nursing | National Inst of Environmental Health Sciences | High Heat and Human Health: Heat Exposure in Restaurant Workers | $467,507 |
| 8/1/2026 | Hongxin Hu Department of Computer Science and Engineering | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: CyberAI Innovation: Educating the Future Workforce in Secure Agentic AI Software Development through an Open Learning Platform | $250,000 |
| 8/1/2026 | Zhenjia Wang Pharmaceutical Sciences | National Heart Lung and Blood Institute | DHA-loaded nanoparticles for inflammation resolution therapy | $2,009,237 |
| 8/1/2026 | Alexey Akimov Chemistry | National Science Foundation | Elements: Libra: The Modular Software for Nonadiabatic and Quantum Dynamics | $600,000 |
| 8/1/2026 | Raphael Fraser Medicine | National Inst of Diabetes Digestive Kidney Disease | Empowering Older Adults with Type 2 Diabetes Using Continuous Glucose Monitoring and Health Coaching for Individualized, Values-Concordant Care | $3,749,950 |
| 8/1/2026 | Larry Hawk Psychology | National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences | Improving Clinical Trial Efficiency and Quality: Randomized Controlled Evaluations of Remote vs. In-Person Methods | $2,993,425 |
| 8/1/2026 | Sharon Hewner Department of Computer Science and Engineering | National Science Foundation | Category III: Planning for a National Scale Data Platform for Personal Data | $484,422 |
| July 2026 | ||||
| 7/21/2026 | Rajendra Prasad Settem Department of Oral Biology | National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Res | Contribution of microbially produced methylglyoxal and glycation end products to periodontal inflammation and dysbiosis | $408,000 |
| 7/16/2026 | Christopher Nebelecky Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering | Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory | Investigation of Decentralized Fusion Approaches | $145,023 |
| 7/15/2026 | Hsinhan Tsai Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering | Carbonix Materials | C3: Graphene-Based Compressible Thermal Interface Materials for Advanced Semiconductor Systems | $185,610 |
| 7/10/2026 | Ramkumar Tiruvannamalai Annamalai Department of Biomedical Engineering | National Institute of General Medical Sciences | Biophysical Regulation of Macrophages Through Engineered Material Platforms | $2,164,220 |
| 7/9/2026 | Keith Kirkwood Department of Oral Biology | National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Res | Investigating the Impact of Biological Sex on the Pathophysiology of Radiation-Induced Oral Mucositis | $440,275 |
| 7/6/2026 | Robert Bies Pharmaceutical Sciences | Johns Hopkins University | The PrEP Optimization in Women via Event-Driven Regimens (POWER) Study | $358,925 |
| 7/3/2026 | Wenyao Xu Department of Computer Science and Engineering | National Science Foundation | REU Site: Frontier Technologies for Biometrics and Authentication | $450,000 |
| 7/1/2026 | Andrew Rogers Medicine | National Cancer Institute | Mechanisms of substance use behaviors among young adult cancer survivors: A mixed-methods ecological momentary assessment approach | $467,581 |
| 7/1/2026 | Spyridon Stavrou Microbiology and Immunology | National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Disease | Nef-independent SERINC5 regulation | $3,331,282 |
| 7/1/2026 | Uttam Singisetti Department of Electrical Engineering | Coherent/II-VI Foundation | Next Generation Ultrawide-Bandgap Electronics | $110,000 |
| 7/1/2026 | Ali El Solh Department of Anesthesiology | National Institute of General Medical Sciences | Anesthesiology Research Training Program | $928,749 |
| 7/1/2026 | Priya Banerjee Department of Physics | National Institute of General Medical Sciences | Fellowship for Joseph Basalla: Uncovering the Role of Intrinsically Disordered Regions in Regulating FOXG1-Chromatin Binding Dynamics | $237,708 |
| 7/1/2026 | Xiaoyu Chen Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering | National Science Foundation | CAREER: Distribution-In-Distribution-Out Analytics: Modeling, Inference, and Applications in Data-Rich Science and Engineering | $500,001 |
| 7/1/2026 | Per Stromhaug NYS Ctr of Excel in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences | NYS Department of Economic Development | UB Center for Advanced Technology in Big Data and Health Sciences - Year 5 | $1,000,000 |
| 7/1/2026 | Gregory Homish Community Health and Health Behavior CHHB | National Institute for Alcohol Abuse & Alcoholism | Research Training on Alcohol Etiology and Treatment | $2,341,093 |
| 7/1/2026 | Roberto Pili Medicine | National Cancer Institute | Therapeutic targeting for translocation renal cell carcinoma | $1,104,863 |
| 7/1/2026 | Leonard Egede Medicine | National Inst of Diabetes Digestive Kidney Disease | Efficacy of Continuous Glucose Monitoring Relative to Traditional Self-Monitoring of Blood Glucose in Non-Insulin Treated Adults with Poorly Controlled T2DM | $3,787,974 |
| 7/1/2026 | Alan Rabideau Department of Civil, Structural & Environmental Engineering | Buffalo Sewer Authority Wastewater Treatment Plant | Water Quality Research | $1,371,000 |
| June 2026 | ||||
| 6/10/2026 | Mikhail Pletnikov Physiology and Biophysics | National Institute of Mental Health | Dissecting the role for astrocytes in mediating adverse outcomes of maternal immune activation | $3,754,157 |
| 6/10/2026 | Hang Jin Jo Department of Rehabilitation Science | Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Dev | Noninvasive Neuromodulation to Improve Hand Motor Function in Multiple Sclerosis | $425,712 |
| 6/2/2026 | Soo-Kyung Lee | FOXP1 Medical Research Foundation | Regulated expression construct development for AAV based gene therapy for FOXP1 Syndrome | $300,000 |
| 6/2/2026 | Haiqing Lin Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering | Triad National Security LLC | Electrochemical Materials Studies | $396,857 |
| 6/1/2026 | Ramkumar Tiruvannamalai Annamalai Department of Biomedical Engineering | National Inst of Arthritis Musculoskeletal & Skin | Mechanistic Investigation of Lgals3+ Macrophages in Fracture Callus Fibrosis and Dysfunctional Repair | $372,171 |
| 6/1/2026 | Rudiyanto Gunawan Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering | National Institute of General Medical Sciences | Characterizing glycosylation regulatory networks using single-cell multiomics and mathematical modeling | $1,372,028 |
| 6/1/2026 | Jamir Marino Department of Physics | US Army Contracting Command | Heralding strongly correlated c-QED with Rydberg atomic arrays: a kinetically constrained quest | $555,628 |
| 6/1/2026 | Kaihang Shi Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering | National Science Foundation | CAREER: Advancing Understanding of Adsorption, Transport, and Interpenetration in Metal-Organic Frameworks with Pore Graphs | $549,292 |
| 6/1/2026 | Gregory Loney Psychology | Whitehall Foundation Incorporated | Cholinergic Insular Mechanisms Underlying Cue-Reactivity | $300,000 |
| 6/1/2026 | Stephanie Frasca Pediatrics | National Inst of Diabetes Digestive Kidney Disease | Promoting healthy dietary intake among families with obesity via a grocery shopping intervention | $3,745,764 |
| May 2026 | ||||
| 5/22/2026 | Kemper Lewis School of Engineering and Applied Sciences | NYS Energy Research and Development Authority | Connected Autonomous Vehicle Enclosure (CAVE) | $500,000 |
| 5/21/2026 | Lee Sinha Biochemistry | National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Disease | Genomics approaches to investigate the evolution of germinal center responses | $439,061 |
| 5/15/2026 | Nojin Kwak Asia Research Institute | Gyeonggi do Future Generation Foundation | 2026 Gyeonggi Province Youth Ladder Program in Buffalo | $151,195 |
| 5/14/2026 | Ekaterina Noyes Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health | Kaleida Health | Using Data Science to Improve Patient Safety and Outcomes | $130,364 |
| 5/12/2026 | Robert Bies Pharmaceutical Sciences | Johns Hopkins University | On-Demand HIV Prevention Across the Lifespan: The OPAL Study | $365,855 |
| 5/8/2026 | Sai Roshan Ayyalasomayajula Department of Computer Science and Engineering | Regents of the University of California, San Diego | DE-ICE: Dispersion Estimation and Ionophase Correction Engine for Reliable Arctic HF OTH Sensing | $440,120 |
| 5/5/2026 | Lin Zhang Department of Biomedical Engineering | National Inst of Neurological Disorders & Stroke | Conformable Cranial Ultrasound Patch for Monitoring Neonates with Germinal Matrix Hemorrhage | $433,643 |
| 5/1/2026 | Yifan Cheng Department of Earth Sciences | University of Wyoming | DISES-EX Rainbows on the Horizon: Understanding the Dynamics of Integrated Climate, River, Trout, Tourism, and Policy Systems in the Mountain West | $102,687 |
| 5/1/2026 | Garrett Neske Physiology and Biophysics | Whitehall Foundation Incorporated | Cholinergic modulation of higher-order thalamus and perception | $300,000 |
| 5/1/2026 | Jason Sprowl Pharmaceutical Sciences | National Cancer Institute | Assessment of efflux transport, pharmacokinetics and systems pharmacology impact on MMAE induced neurotoxicity | $410,545 |
| 5/1/2026 | Joyce Hwang Architecture | Mellon Foundation | Living Orchard | $195,000 |
| April 2026 | ||||
| 4/21/2026 | Murali Ramanathan Pharmaceutical Sciences | Gates Foundation | Agentic-AI Enabled Clinical Pharmacology Recommendations | $365,846 |
| 4/15/2026 | Chi Zhou Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering | NYS Energy Research and Development Authority | Carbon Sequestering Biogenic Insulating Exterior Wall Panels | $2,499,910 |
| 4/10/2026 | Hsinhan Tsai Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering | First Solar | Incorporating Metal-organic Frameworks as Oxygen Barrier in Encapsulation Material for Long-term Solar Panel Operation | $600,000 |
| 4/7/2026 | Lee Sinha Biochemistry | National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Disease | Identifying the functional impact of ZNF688 autoantibodies in oral lupus lesions | $160,100 |
| 4/1/2026 | Vincent Tutino Department of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences | American Heart Association Incorporated | Development of CT Radiomic Biomarkers for Optimizing Thrombectomy Strategy in Ischemic Stroke | $231,000 |
| 4/1/2026 | Mark Hicar Pediatrics | American Heart Association Incorporated | Using B cell responses to discover the etiology of Kawasaki disease | $100,000 |
| 4/1/2026 | Marcus Thomeer Pediatrics | Children's Guild Foundation | A New Home for the Institute for Autism Research | $450,000 |
| 4/1/2026 | Wenyao Xu Department of Computer Science and Engineering | National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering | mHealth Technologies for Assessing Hearing Disorders | $2,455,051 |
| 4/1/2026 | Nicholas Smith Pharmacy | Stanford University | The Center for Phage Pharmaceuticals (Phage Pharm) | $1,498,044 |
| 4/1/2026 | Xiuqian Mu Department of Ophthalmology | National Eye Institute | Atoh7 interacting proteins involved in retinal ganglion cell genesis | $440,275 |
| 4/1/2026 | Stephen Rudin Neurosurgery | Canon Incorporated | Next Generation X-ray Imaging | $100,000 |
| March 2026 | ||||
| 3/17/2026 | Nicholas Mastronarde Department of Electrical Engineering | Florida Atlantic University | SUPP: Networked Edge-AI on Programmable Computing Fabric | $1,118,556 |
| 3/13/2026 | Anne Kathryn Kauffman Department of Oral Biology | National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Res | Hiding in plain sight: integrating AI with targeted bench methods to discover and characterize viruses in the human body | $1,631,825 |
| 3/6/2026 | Daniel Woo Neurology | University of Cincinnati | Proteomics and Cognitive Decline Following Intracerebral Hemorrhage | $313,664 |
| 3/1/2026 | Yue Huang Microbiology and Immunology | National Institute of General Medical Sciences | Polysaccharide utilization and antimicrobial resistance in abundant gut bacteria | $2,170,845 |
| 3/1/2026 | Bartholomew Roberts The Regional Institute | Center For Regional Strategies | Regional Economic Development Support to CRS | $870,744 |
| 3/1/2026 | Jaye Derrick Community Health and Health Behavior CHHB | University of Houston | Acculturation, Social Context, Loneliness and the Development of Alcohol Problems in Latinx Individuals | $554,964 |
| February 2026 | ||||
| 2/15/2026 | Patricia Diaz-Moreno Department of Oral Biology | University of Pittsburgh | Treatment for Peri-implantitis via Local Immunomodulation and Effect on the Microbiome | $717,195 |
| 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 |
| 2/1/2026 | Negar Elhami - Khorasani Department of Civil, Structural & Environmental Engineering | Purdue University | FIRE-WUI: Community Resilience Assessment Framework Against WUI-Fires using Multi-Resolution Digital Twins | $422,665 |
| 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 | 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 | Kathleen Heim BCSR Administration | Erie County Department of Mental Health | Children, Youth and Families Mental Health Evidence-based Practice Project | $194,827 |
| 1/1/2026 | Diane Berdine Family Medicine | Erie County Department of Mental Health | High Risk Critical Time Intervention | $340,337 |
| 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 | Per Stromhaug Business and Entrepreneur Partnerships | NYS Department of Economic Development | NYS Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences | $1,000,000 |
| 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 Mackay Department of Geography | Arizona Board of Regents | RESEARCH-PGR: Exploring the Genetics of Drought Resistance with Field-based Phenomics and Biophysical Process-based Modeling | $104,981 |
| 1/1/2026 | Douglas Perrelli Anthropology | Multiple Sponsors | Archeological Survey Commercial Sites 2026 | $131,640 |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 | Benny Joyner Pediatrics | Mother Cabrini Health Foundation | Addressing Health Disparities in Pediatric Subspecialty Care through Integrated Social Work Support | $194,800 |
| 1/1/2026 | Jun Hwan Choi Department of Electrical Engineering | NXP USA Incorporated | Design and Modeling 1D and 2D Passive/Active Frequency-Scanning Metamaterial Antennas and Antenna Arrays Operating in W-band | $599,636 |
| 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 | Wei Sun Communicative Disorders and Sciences | Veterans Admin Western New York Healthcare Systems | VA IPA-Chen 2025-27 | $127,128 |
| 12/1/2025 | Bibhudatta Sahoo Department of Electrical Engineering | Excellerix Limited Liability Company | EXCISER: Express CMOS-Based Interference Suppression for EW Receivers-Phase-2 | $332,074 |
| 12/1/2025 | Soo-Kyung Lee Biological Sciences | FOXG1 Research Foundation | Molecular dissection of forebrain developmental deficits caused by mutations in human FoxG1 syndrome | $750,000 |
| 12/1/2025 | Andrew Talal Medicine | Empath Medical Innovations Incorporated | UB CAT: Multicomponent Facilitated Telemedicine Pilots | $114,000 |
| 12/1/2025 | Krishna Rajan Department of Materials Design and Innovation | Community Foundation of New Jersey | Collaboratory for a Regenerative Economy (CoRE) | $500,000 |
| November 2025 | ||||
| 11/28/2025 | Peter Elkin Department of Biomedical Informatics | Department of Veterans Affairs | IPA for Kendria Hall, MD | $116,530 |
| 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 | $375,020 |
| 11/11/2025 | Adnan Siddiqui Neurosurgery | Phenox Limited | PIANO: Prospective, multicenter, single-arm clinical trial to determine safety and effectiveness of the flow diverter in the treatment of wide-necked intracranial aneurysms | $112,968 |
| 11/5/2025 | Ralph Benedict Neurology | Sanofi Pharmaceuticals | Normalization Of Multinational Bicams Data: A Retrospective Regression-Based Analysis | $271,691 |
| 11/1/2025 | Peter Elkin Department of Biomedical Informatics | Department of Veterans Affairs | Knowledge Based Systems - IPA Skyler Resendez | $120,214 |
| 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 | 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 | FY26 University at Buffalo IPA - Prahalad Rangan | $124,084 |
| 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 | Sarah Ventre Pediatrics | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | New York State Children's Environment Health Center of Excellence | $335,000 |
| October 2025 | ||||
| 10/15/2025 | Anna Blumental-Perry Biochemistry | Empire Discovery Institute | JumpStart as a Novel Pathway to Modulate Mitochondrial Bioenergetics | $220,000 |
| 10/9/2025 | Teresa Quattrin Pediatrics | Sanofi US Services Incorporated | A Randomized, Double-blind, Phase 3 Study to Investigate the Efficacy and Safety of Teplizumab Compared with Placebo in Participants 1 to 25 Years of Age with Recently Diagnosed Stage 3 Type 1 Diabetes | $170,719 |
| 10/6/2025 | Kinga Szigeti Neurology | Bristol Myers Squibb Company | CN012-0052: A Phase 3, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Parallel Group Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of KarXT + KarX-EC for the Treatment of Cognitive Impairment Associated with Mild to Moderate Alzheimer's Disease | $158,857 |
| 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 | 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 | John Beverley Philosophy | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Proto-OKN Theme 2: OKN Fabric | $141,263 |
| 10/1/2025 | Cristanne Miller English | National Endowment for the Humanities | Marianne Moore's Notebooks: A Dynamic Record of Poetry in the Making and of Twentieth-Century Culture | $264,596 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Virginia Flood Learning and Instruction | National Science Foundation | CAREER: Embodied Responsive Teaching in Undergraduate Physics | $666,146 |
| 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 | 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 | Bernadette Gargano School of Law | Neighborhood Legal Services Incorporated | Western New York Eviction Prevention Project (NLS) | $164,609 |
| 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 | Cindy Sickora School of Nursing | New York Health Foundation | Expanding Access to Mobile Childhood Vaccine Clinics Across Western New York | $166,797 |
| 10/1/2025 | Mary Nell Trautner Sociology | Ichigo Foundation | Expanding the UB College in Prison Program | $340,000 |
| 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 | Thomas Russo Medicine | Veterans Admin Western New York Healthcare Systems | IPA MacDonald 2025-2027 | $180,730 |
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| 9/30/2025 | Adnan Siddiqui Neurosurgery | Siemens Medical Solutions USA Incorporated | UB Ionita AT 2025 Clinical Neuro | $109,437 |
| 9/26/2025 | Murali Ramanathan Pharmaceutical Sciences | 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 | $176,754 |
| 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 | 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 |
| 9/20/2025 | 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 |
| 9/16/2025 | 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 |
| 9/16/2025 | Jennifer Read Psychology | National Institute for Alcohol Abuse & Alcoholism | Friend-based Intervention to Reduce Alcohol-Involved Sexual Assault Risk | $3,019,506 |
| 9/15/2025 | 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 |
| 9/15/2025 | Lauren Fischer Urban and Regional Planning | State University of New York | Streetscape Designs for Extreme Heat and Climate Resilience | $360,000 |
| 9/15/2025 | Jochen Autschbach Chemistry | Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania | Expressing Tunable Emergent Quantum Phenomena in Molecular Materials with Strong Electron Correlations | $416,800 |
| 9/15/2025 | Thomas Covey Pharmacology and Toxicology | US Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity | Development of novel neural indices of auditory and visual processing speed disturbances in multiple sclerosis | $250,000 |
| 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 |
