Research Awards
Career Achievement Research Award
Recognizes faculty at the professor level for their distinguished contributions to research. Awardee(s) is provided with a plaque and recognized at the department’s annual academic forum.
2023
Nipavan Chiamviminvat, M.D., Professor, Cardiovascular Medicine
Faculty Research Award
Recognizes faculty at the assistant and associate level for their distinguished contributions to research. Awardee(s) is provided with a plaque and recognized at the department’s annual academic forum.
2023
Enkhmaa Byambaa, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
John C. Rutledge Trainee Research Award
Dr. John (Jack) Rutledge, M.D. was an outstanding cardiologist and physician scientist who dedicated 45 years of his life to a distinguished career in academic medicine contributing greatly to elevating the standing of the University. He held many leadership roles and served as the department's Vice Chair for Research. He was admired by his colleagues for his many qualities including his intellect, creativity, and selflessness in advancing the careers of others having mentored over 70 health science trainees during his long and distinguished career including graduate students, residents, and fellows. The Trainee Research Award is named in his honor to acknowledge his remarkable legacy of dedication to mentoring and developing science trainees and early career faculty. Awards are given for outstanding papers or manuscripts published, submitted, or in preparation during current academic year.
Each awardee is presented with a $1,500 travel award and plaque. Each mentor is presented with a $500 travel award. Awards are distributed at the department’s annual academic forum. The award is intended to:
- Recognize and reward trainees (residents, clinical fellows, graduate students, and postdoctoral scholars) for excellence in research
- Encourage scientific academic careers
- Attract research-oriented medical students to our residency program
- Encourage trainees’ scholarship by pairing them with the highly successful mentors
- Increase departmental cohesion around trainee scholarship
- Encourage philanthropic support from the community for our department’s academic mission because of our commitment to developing medical scientists
Anthony Kong, M.D. - Mentor: Javier Lopez, M.D.
"Medical Disruptions During Center-based Cardiac Rehabilitation: A Necessary Appraisal for the Development of Emerging Remote and Virtual Care Models"
Sartajdeep Bobby Kahlon, M.D. - Mentor: Shio Urayama, M.D.
"Role of Endoscopic Ultrasound for Pre-Intervention Evaluation in Early Esophageal Cancer"
Ebaa Al-Obeidi, M.D. - Mentor: David Gandara, M.D.
"Convergence of Precision Oncology and Liquid Biopsy in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer"
Tamer Othman, M.D. - Mentor: Joseph Tuscano, M.D.
"Yttrium-90 ibritumomab tiuxetan plus ATG/TLI conditioning for allogeneic hematopoietic cell 3 transplantation in non-Hodgkin lymphoma"
Phung Thai, Ph.D. - Mentor: Nipavan Chiamvimonvat, M.D.
"Disruption of mitochondria-sarcoplasmic reticulum micro domain connectomics contributes to sinus node dysfunction in heart failure"
Paulo De Alcantara Rocha - Mentor: Martin Cadeiras, M.D.
"Neonatal Chemokine Markers Predict Subsequent Diagnosis of autism Spectrum Disorder and Delayed Development"
Richard C. Woodard Diabetes Research Trainee Award
- Reward trainees (residents, clinical fellows, graduate students, and postdoctoral scholars) for excellence in diabetes research
- Encourage trainee scholarship
Awards are given for outstanding papers or manuscripts published, submitted, or in preparation during current academic year. Awardees are presented with a $250 monetary award and plaque at the department’s annual academic forum.
2023
Ming-Fo Hsu, Ph.D. - Mentor: Maryam Afkarian, M.D., Ph.D.
"Deficiency of the Src homology phosphatase 2 in podocytes is associated with renoprotective effects in mice under hyperglycemia"
Anthony An Khong, M.D. - Mentor: Javier E. Lopez, M.D.
"Medical Disruptions During Center-based Cardiac Rehabilitation: A Necessary Appraisal for the Development of Emerging Remote and Virtual Care Models"
Nina Liu, M.D. - Mentor: Javier Lopez, M.D.
"Individualized Strength- and Aerobic-based Cardiac Rehabilitation Improves Functional Capacity and Metabolic Risk Factors in Patients with Diabetes"
Jennifer E. Norman Ph.D. - Mentor: Amparo Villablanca, M.D.
"A high sucrose diet modifies brain oxylipins in a sex-dependent manner"
Saivageethi Nuthikattu, Ph.D. - Mentor: Amparo Villablanca, M.D.
"The Brain’s Microvascular Response to High Glycemia and to the Inhibition of Soluble Epoxide Hydrolase Is Sexually Dimorphic"
Lankai Cathy Xu, M.D. - Mentor: Valentina Medici, M.D.
"Liver Cirrhosis Prediction Models in a Population of Latina and White Women"
Hish Yamauchi, M.D. and Family, Endowed Translational Research Award
- Support and promote collaborative translational research with focus on infectious diseases and endocrinology.
- M.D. physician researcher investigators at all levels.
Awards are given for outstanding proposals. Awardees receive $7,000 to support their project.
2023
Hiba Basheer, M.D., Health Science Assistant Clinical Professor, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
"Study of The Prevalence, Transcriptional Profile and Genetic Signature of Thyroid Cancer Among Transgender Females."