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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | ||||
| 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 |
| 8/1/2026 | Zhenjia Wang Pharmaceutical Sciences | National Heart Lung and Blood Institute | DHA-loaded nanoparticles for inflammation resolution therapy | $2,009,237 |
| 8/1/2026 | 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 | Alexey Akimov Chemistry | National Science Foundation | Elements: Libra: The Modular Software for Nonadiabatic and Quantum Dynamics | $600,000 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 |
| 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 | Daniel Smith School of Nursing | National Inst of Environmental Health Sciences | High Heat and Human Health: Heat Exposure in Restaurant Workers | $467,507 |
| 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 |
| 7/3/2026 | Wenyao Xu Department of Computer Science and Engineering | National Science Foundation | REU Site: Frontier Technologies for Biometrics and Authentication | $450,000 |
| 7/1/2026 | 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 | Ali El Solh Department of Anesthesiology | National Institute of General Medical Sciences | Anesthesiology Research Training Program | $928,749 |
| 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 | Spyridon Stavrou Microbiology and Immunology | National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Disease | Nef-independent SERINC5 regulation | $3,331,282 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | Alan Rabideau Department of Civil, Structural & Environmental Engineering | Buffalo Sewer Authority Wastewater Treatment Plant | Water Quality Research | $1,371,000 |
| 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 | Uttam Singisetti Department of Electrical Engineering | Coherent/II-VI Foundation | Next Generation Ultrawide-Bandgap Electronics | $110,000 |
| 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 |
| 6/1/2026 | 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 | 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 |
| 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 | Gregory Loney Psychology | Whitehall Foundation Incorporated | Cholinergic Insular Mechanisms Underlying Cue-Reactivity | $300,000 |
| 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 | Joyce Hwang Architecture | Mellon Foundation | Living Orchard | $195,000 |
| 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 |
| 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 | Marcus Thomeer Pediatrics | Children's Guild Foundation | A New Home for the Institute for Autism Research | $450,000 |
| 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 | 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 | Nicholas Smith Pharmacy | Stanford University | The Center for Phage Pharmaceuticals (Phage Pharm) | $1,498,044 |
| 4/1/2026 | Stephen Rudin Neurosurgery | Canon Incorporated | Next Generation X-ray Imaging | $100,000 |
| 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 | Xiuqian Mu Department of Ophthalmology | National Eye Institute | Atoh7 interacting proteins involved in retinal ganglion cell genesis | $440,275 |
| March 2026 | ||||
| 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 | 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 |
| 3/1/2026 | Bartholomew Roberts The Regional Institute | Center For Regional Strategies | Regional Economic Development Support to CRS | $870,744 |
| 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 | 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 |
| 2/1/2026 | Eugene Morse Pharmacy | Fogarty International Center | FS: HIV Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics Research Training Program | $151,973 |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 | 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 | Benny Joyner Pediatrics | Mother Cabrini Health Foundation | Addressing Health Disparities in Pediatric Subspecialty Care through Integrated Social Work Support | $194,800 |
| 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 | 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 |
| 1/1/2026 | Diane Berdine Family Medicine | Erie County Department of Mental Health | High Risk Critical Time Intervention | $340,337 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 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 | 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 | Douglas Perrelli Anthropology | Multiple Sponsors | Archeological Survey Commercial Sites 2026 | $111,640 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | Andrew Talal Medicine | Empath Medical Innovations Incorporated | UB CAT: Multicomponent Facilitated Telemedicine Pilots | $114,000 |
| 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 |
| 11/5/2025 | Ralph Benedict Neurology | Sanofi Pharmaceuticals | Normalization Of Multinational Bicams Data: A Retrospective Regression-Based Analysis | $271,691 |
| 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 Frank LeHouillier | $113,227 |
| 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 | 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 Skyler Resendez | $120,214 |
| 11/1/2025 | Yuguang Li Chemistry | PlasmaChem Solutions Incorporated | STTR: Plasma Electrochemical System for Cost Competitive Air-to-Ammonia Production | $106,750 |
| 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 | $159,272 |
| 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 | $135,829 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
| September 2025 | ||||
| 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 | $176,536 |
| 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 | 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 |
| 9/16/2025 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Lauren Fischer Urban and Regional Planning | State University of New York | Streetscape Designs for Extreme Heat and Climate Resilience | $360,000 |
| 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 |
| 9/12/2025 | Parikshit Padhi Medicine | AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP | A Phase III, Randomized, Double-blind, Multicenter, Global Study of Rilvegostomig or Pembrolizumab in Combination with Platinum-based Chemotherapy for the Firstline Treatment of Patients with Metastatic Non-squamous Non-small Cell Lung... | $107,538 |
| 9/9/2025 | Richard Ohrbach Oral Diagnostic Sciences Administration | University of Pittsburgh | Collaborative for REsearch to Advance TMD Evidence (CREATE) | $3,889,585 |
| 9/3/2025 | Randall Rasmusson Physiology and Biophysics | Cytocybernetics | Real Time NEURON Simulation for Experimental Applications | $557,417 |
| 9/1/2025 | Jordana Maisel Urban and Regional Planning | Administration For Community Living | Addressing the Impacts of Severe Weather on People with Disabilities | $200,000 |
| 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 | 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 | $2,205,627 |
| 9/1/2025 | Alex Vecchio Department of Structural Biology | National Institute of General Medical Sciences | Structure and Assembly of Membrane Proteins at Tight Junctions | $2,338,994 |
| 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 | 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 | $537,334 |
| 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 | Jonathan Lovell Department of Biomedical Engineering | American Parkinson Disease Association Inc | a-synuclein active immunotherapy with pS129 nanoliposomes | $100,000 |
| 9/1/2025 | Edward Bednarczyk Pharmacy | Health Research Inc | Overdose Data to Action (OD2A) 2025-2026 | $115,000 |
| 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 | Brian Clemency Department of Emergency Medicine | State University of New York | OASAS Institute 2025-2027 | $1,253,000 |
| 9/1/2025 | Amit Goyal Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering | State University of New York | MOU: Center for Waste Tire Research | $750,000 |
| 9/1/2025 | Matthew Faytak Linguistics | National Science Foundation | Corpus phonetics and speech technology infrastructure | $101,674 |
| 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 | Andrew Hirsch Department of Computer Science and Engineering | National Science Foundation | SHF: Small: Open Choreographies via Session Types | $600,652 |
| 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 | Wanyi Nie Department of Physics | National Science Foundation | Exciton Dynamics in Proximitized Chiral Heterostructures | $550,000 |
| 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 | 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 | Jordana Maisel Urban and Regional Planning | Administration For Community Living | Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Universal Design Applications | $974,997 |
| 9/1/2025 | Steven Diver Chemistry | National Science Foundation | Bimacrocyclic Ligands for Selective Catalytic Reactions | $249,982 |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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 | John Richard Chemistry | National Institute of General Medical Sciences | Studies on Enzyme Activation | $605,248 |
| 8/15/2025 | Sandra Flash NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program | National Science Foundation | Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) | $394,417 |
| 8/15/2025 | Christine Schaner Tooley Biochemistry | National Institute of General Medical Sciences | Research and Career Training for Cellular, Biochemical and Molecular Scientists | $1,068,388 |
