BTC Clinical Research Achievement Awards
The annual Clinical Research Achievement Awards, supported by the UB Clinical and Translational Science Institute, honor the outstanding accomplishments of clinical research in the Buffalo Niagara region.
This annual competition seeks to identify major advances resulting from the region’s investment in research to benefit the health and welfare of our community. The awards honor investigators from the University at Buffalo or Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center serving as principal author published or in press in a peer-reviewed journal during the calendar year of the competition.
2024 awardees Andrew Talal, MD, MPH; Stanley A. Schwartz, MD, PhD; and Eunice S. Wang, MD.
Entries should exhibit innovation, creativity and scientific advancement in clinical research. They should contribute to the understanding of human disease and physiology, and demonstrate an impact on the understanding, prevention, diagnosis or treatment of disease.
Eligible submissions are those published or in press in a peer-reviewed journal during the calendar year of the competition. University at Buffalo or Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center investigators must serve as principal author, with research performed at a BTC institution.
Awardees will receive an invitation to present at the annual CTSI Forum held in March. The winners may also receive a travel stipend to the ACTS Translational Science meeting.
All nominees are encouraged to enter the Clinical Research Forum’s Top Ten Clinical Research Achievement Awards.
Entries for the 2024 BTC Clinical Research Achievement Awards are due by 11:59 p.m. on Friday, November 1, 2024. Nomination packets in a single PDF format can be submitted to CTSI Senior Research Administrator Erin Carnes. Download nomination form and see eligibility criteria.
Member | Title | Institution |
(chair) | SUNY Distinguished Professor, Department of Medicine | Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences |
Associate Dean for Research and Scholarship | School of Nursing | |
Associate Dean for Research | School of Public Health and Health Professions | |
| Senior Vice President and Associate Director for Translational Research | Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center | |
Senior Associate Dean for Research | School of Dental Medicine | |
SUNY Distinguished Professor | Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences | |
Professor and Chair, Department of Neurology | Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences |
Top Award: Andrew Talal, MD, MPH, Professor, Department of Medicine, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, “Integrated Hepatitis C-Opioid Use Disorder Care Through Facilitated Telemedicine: A Randomized Trial”
Finalist: Stanley A. Schwartz, MD, PhD, UB Distinguished Professor, Medicine and Pediatrics, Division Chief, Allergy, Immunology & Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, “Omics Analysis Reveals Galectin-3 to Be a Potential Key Regulator of Allergic Inflammation in Hereditary Angioedema”
Finalist: Eunice S. Wang, MD, Professor of Oncology, Leukemia Clinical Disease Team Leader, Chief, Department of Medicine — Leukemia Assistant Member, Tumor Immunology Program, Department of Immunology, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, “Ziftomenib in Relapsed or Refractory Acute Myeloid Leukaemia (KOMET-001): A Multicentre, Open-label, Multi-cohort, Phase 1 Trial”
Top Award: Leonard H. Epstein, PhD, SUNY Distinguished Professor and Division Chief, Behavioral Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, “Family-based Behavioral Treatment for Childhood Obesity Implemented in Pediatric Primary Care”
Finalist: Robert Fenstermaker, MD, Professor of Neurosurgery and Oncology, Chair, Department of Neurosurgery, Director, Neuro-Oncology Program, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, “Phase IIa Study of SurVaxM Plus Adjuvant Temozolomide for Newly Diagnosed Glioblastoma”
Finalist: Ram Samudrala, PhD, Professor and Chief, Division of Bioinformatics, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, “Multiscale Analysis and Validation of Effective Drug Combinations Targeting Driver KRAS Mutations in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer”
Top Award: Steven E. Lipshultz, MD, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, “The Genetic Architecture of Pediatric Cardiomyopathy”
Finalist: Qianqian Zhu, PhD, Professor of Oncology, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, and Co-Director, Biostatistics and Statistical Genomics Resource, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, “UACA Locus Is Associated With Breast Cancer Chemoresistance and Survival”
Top Award: Liise K. Kayler, MD, Program Director Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation, Chief of the Division of Transplant Surgery, Department of Surgery, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, “Hardest-to-place Kidney Transplant Outcomes in the United States”
Finalist: Brian Clemency, DO, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, “Efficacy of Inhaled Ciclesonide for Outpatient Treatment of Adolescents and Adults With Symptomatic COVID-19: A Randomized Clinical Trial”
Finalist: Steven E. Lipshultz, MD, A. Conger Goodyear Professor and Chair, Department of Pediatrics, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, “Late Health Outcomes After Dexrazoxane Treatment: A Report From the Children’s Oncology Group”
Top Award: Teresa Quattrin, MD, UB Distinguished Professor, Senior Associate Dean for Research Integration, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and CTSI Special Populations Core Director,
Finalist: Steven E. Lipshultz, MD, A. Conger Goodyear Professor and Chair, Department of Pediatrics, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences,
Finalist: Gil I. Wolfe, MD, FAAN, Professor and Chair, Irvin and Rosemary Smith Chair of Neurology, Department of Neurology, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences,
Top Award: John J. Leddy, MD, clinical professor of orthopaedics in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, “”
Finalist: Dhyan Chandra, PhD, associate professor of oncology at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, “”
Finalist: Brian Clemency, DO, associate professor of emergency medicine in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, “”
Top Award: Jeffrey M. Lackner, PsyD, professor of medicine in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, ""
Finalist: Michael J. LaMonte, PhD, MPH, associate professor of epidemiology and environmental health in UB's School of Public Health and Health Professions, ""
Finalist: Paresh Dandona, MD, PhD, SUNY Distinguished Professor, Department of Medicine, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, ""
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Top Award: Andrew Talal, MD, MPH, professor of medicine in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, “”
Finalist: Robert G. Rychtarik, PhD, senior research scientist in UB’s Research Institute on Addictions, “”
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Top Award: Gil I. Wolfe, MD, professor and chair, Department of Neurology, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, “”
Finalist: Sebastian G. Ciancio, DDS, Distinguished Service Professor and chair, Department of Periodontics and Endodontics, School of Dental Medicine, “”
Finalist: Rina Das Eiden, PhD, senior research scientist, Research Institute on Addictions, “”
Finalist: Timothy F. Murphy, MD, SUNY Distinguished Professor and director of UB’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute, “”
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