Past Translational Science Meeting Awards
Congratulations to the 2020 award winners! View the full video playlist on the ACTS YouTube channel.
Edward H. Ahrens, Jr. Award for Patient Oriented Research
2020 Jean Bennett, MD, PhD, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
2019 John H. Krystal, MD, Yale School of Medicine
2018 Daniel J. Rader, MD, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
2017 Henry Ginsberg, MD, Irving Institute for Clinical & Translational Science
2016 Robert Sherwin, MD, Yale University
2014 Steven K. Grinspoon, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital
ACTS Distinguished Investigator Award for Career Achievement and Contribution to Clinical and Translational Science for Translation from Early Clinical Use to Applicability for Widespread Clinical Practice
2019 Carl H. June, MD, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
2018 James G. Krueger, MD, PhD, Rockefeller University
2017 Peter J. Snyder, MD, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
2015 Francis E. Marchlinski, MD, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
2014 Robert M. Califf, MD, Duke University Medical Center
ACTS Distinguished Investigator Award for Career Achievement and Contribution to Clinical and Translational Science for Translation from Clinical Use into Public Benefit and Policy
2020 Diana Miglioretti, PhD, Translation from Clinical Use into Public Benefit and Policy
2019 David A. Asch, MD, MBA, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
2018 Jayme Locke, MD, MPH, FACS, University of Alabama at Birmingham
2017 Scott D. Halpern, MD, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
2015 Kevin Volpp, MD, PhD, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
2014 Marie R. Griffin, MD, MPH, Vanderbilt University
ACTS Distinguished Educator Award
2020 Emma A. Meagher, MD, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
2019 Christine Pfund, PhD and Christine Sorkness, PharmD, RPh, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2018 Lawrence F. Brass, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
2017 Ellen W. Seely, MD, Brigham Health, Brigham & Women's Hospital
2016 Doris Rubio, PhD, University of Pittsburgh
2015 Michael F. Fleming, MD, MPH of Northwestern University
2014 Eugene P. Orringer, MD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Team Science Award
2020 Kevin Sheth, MD, Yale School of Medicine
2019 Marcella Nunez-Smith, MD, MHS, and the ECHORN Team, Yale School of Medicine
2018 Roy S. Herbst, MD, PhD, and the Yale Cancer Center Immunology Team
2017 CONRAD
2016 Yale Diabetes Research Center
2015 Women's Health Initiative
2014 Community Partners in Care Council
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Barry Coller ACTS Excellence in Service Award
2017 Rebecca D. Jackson, MD, The Ohio State University
2014 Harry P. Selker, MD, MSPH, Tufts University Clinical and Translational Science Institute
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ACTS Early (Faculty) Career Development Award
2020 Steven Hicks, MD, PhD, Penn State College of Medicine
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ACTS Post-Doctoral Scholar Award
2020 Sarah Sheppard, MD, PhD, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
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ACTS Pre-Doctoral Scholar Award
2020 Uriel Kim, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
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AFMR Outstanding Investigator Award
2020 Nehal N. Mehta, MD, MSCE, FAHA, NIH, National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute (NHLBI)
2019 Kiran Musunuru, MD, PhD, MPH, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
2017 Scott D. Halpern, MD, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
2016 William J. Steinbach, MD, Duke University
2015 Dr. Keith Josephs, Jr. of Mayo Clinic
2014 Yutong Zhao, MD, PhD, University of Pittsburgh
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AFMR Junior Physician Investigator Award
2018 Jennifer Alexander-Brett, MD, PhD, Washington University in St. Louis
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PhRMA Foundation Award
2017 Paul M. Campbell, PhD, Drexel University College of Medicine
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PhRMA Foundation Research Starter Grants in Translational Medicine and Therapeutics
2020 Aileen Chang, MD, MSPH, George Washington University School of Medicine
2019 Sam Emaminejad, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
2018 A. Hunter Shain, PhD, University of California San Francisco, Mark Ebbert, PhD, Mayo Clinic, Qun Wang, PhD, Iowa State University
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Burroughs Wellcome Fund Trainee Travel Awards
The Burroughs Wellcome Fund has generously supported early career scholars and pre-doctoral trainees to take part in the annual Translational Science meeting since 2009. The $20,000 Burroughs Wellcome Fund grants provide trainees and scholars with travel awards to use toward airfare or hotel expenses for Translational Science. The scholars and trainees take part in unique career development activities, including mock study sections, meetings with NIH program officers, seminars on scientific career development, NIH tours, and research presentations. Below are the recipients for the 2019 travel awards.
| Awardee | Title | Institution |
| Sikoya Ashburn | A functional neuroimaging study of the cerebellum's involvement in children with reading and math disabilities | Georgetown University |
| Walid Ashmeik | Association of blood pressure and biochemical knee cartilage composition assessed by T2 relaxation time measurements: Data from the Osteoarthritis Initiative | University Of California, San Francisco |
| Shannon Barbour-Christensen | Assessing the protective potential of H1N1 influenza virus hemagglutinin head and stalk antibodies in humans | University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine |
| Haley Bednarz | The Relationship between Executive Function Brain Connectivity and Social Functioning in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder | Tulane University School of Medicine |
| Marion Bendixen | A TL1 Team Approach to Personalizing Donor Human Milk for the Preterm Infant | University of Pittsburgh |
| Rajpreet Chahal | Neural connectivity mechanisms linking off-time pubertal development and depression risk in adolescence | University of California, Davis |
| Ashley Choi | Bowel Ischemia after Continuous Flow Ventricular Assist Device Therapy: A Single Center Analysis | Duke University |
| Kadie Clancy | Machine Learning for Prediction of Pathologic Pneumatosis Intestinalis Using CT Scans | University Of California, San Francisco |
| Timothy Copeland | Nonclinical factors associated with contralateral prophylactic mastectomy among breast cancer patients in the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database | David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA |
| Alexandra Dreyfuss | A Mouse Model to Study Image-Guided, Radiation-Induced Cardiac Injury and Potential Clinically Targetable Biologic Mediators | University of Alabama at Birmingham |
| Morgan Ellis | Production of Engineered Cardiac Tissue for Disease Modeling | Auburn University |
| Henrietta Fasanya | TL1 Team Approach to Using a Combination of Ganglioside 2 and 3 as an Immunoaffinity Target for Circulating Osteosarcoma Cell Detection | Mount Sinai School of Medicine |
| Laila Fozouni | Frailty Associated with Increased Rates of Acute Cellular Rejection Within 3 Months After Liver Transplantation | Vanderbilt University Medical Center |
| Frances Gill | Implementing an Interdisciplinary, Student-Run Consult Service for Homeless Patients: The Critical Role of Community Partnerships | University of Alabama at Birmingham |
| Megan Gliozzi | Hemoglobin selectively inhibits renal proximal tubular uptake of proteins: Implications for vitamin D deficiency and kidney disease in sickle cell disease | Tufts University |
| Leonard Hickman | Electroencephalographic suppression from anesthesia and cognitive recovery | Mayo Clinic |
| Quenten Hooker | Effects of Motor Skill Training vs. Strength and Flexibility Exercise on Functional Limitations, Pain, and Movement Characteristics in People with Chronic Low Back Pain | Washington University in St. Louis |
| Michael Jonczyk | Breast Cancer Surgical Management :Novel Surgical Trends, Appropriate Axillary intervention, and associated Complications | Tufts University |
| Austin Jones | Assessing Racial Disparities in Hepatitis C Retention of Care | Tulane University School of Medicine |
| Alexandra Khodadadi | Factors Associated with Hesitancy of Human Papillomavirus Vaccination Among Latina Immigrant Mothers Despite Physician Recommendation | University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine |
| Uriel Kim | The Devil is in the Details: Unbalanced Gains in Healthcare Access and Affordability in the Health Insurance Exchanges | Case Western Reserve University |
| Eithan Kotkowski | Unpacking the Contributions of Metabolic Syndrome's Biometric Variables on Gray Matter Volume Using Linear Regression | Emory University School of Medicine |
| Monica Lieng | Association between Transfer of Children from the Emergency Department and Pediatric Readiness of the Hospital | University of California, Davis |
| Carissa Livingston | Sunitinib-Induced Cardiotoxicity in an Engineered Cardiac Microtissue Model | University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine |
| Lorena Marcano Bonilla | Associations of aspirin, non-aspirin NSAIDs, statins, and metformin with risk of biliary cancer: A Swedish population-based cohort study | University Of Florida Clinical and Translational Science Institute |
| Erica Monrose | Intrahepatic Cholestasis of Pregnancy (ICP) is associated with higher prevalence of NAFLD: a case-control study. | Tulane University School of Medicine |
| Alexandra Moussa-Tooks | Effects of Early Life Stress on Adult Behavioral and Neural Outcomes in Rats | Indiana University School of Medicine |
| Natalia Olchanski | Targeting Diabetes Prevention Programs: Individual Risk-Based Health Economic Analysis | Tufts University |
| Jake Owens | PRMT5 is a novel therapeutic target to enhance radiation therapy for cancer treatment | University of Pittsburgh |
| Harrison Penrose | Identification of Immune Cell Profiles and Molecular Pathways in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Driving Non-Response to Biologic Therapy | University Of Florida Clinical and Translational Science Institute |
| Mindy Pike | The association between components of the Life’s Simple Seven and incident end stage renal disease in the Southern Community Cohort Study | Vanderbilt University Medical Center |
| Ramy Rashad | Mycoplasma Induced Rash and Mucositis: How Affected Are the Eyes? | Tufts University |
| Alexander Razavi | Serum Metabolites from the Trimethylamine Pathway Associate with Left Ventricular Diastolic Function: The Bogalusa Heart Study | Tulane University School of Medicine |
| Adam Rocker | An Injectable Sulfonated Reversible Thermal Gel for Controlled and Localized Delivery of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor to Promote Cardiac Protection After a Myocardial Infarction | University of Colorado Denver |
| Lauren Saag | Association between HIV and early weight loss and the impact on subsequent treatment outcomes among patients with tuberculosis | University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine |
| Stephen Sloan | Combined Annulus Fibrosus and Nucleus Pulposus Repair Prevents Degeneration in the Ovine Lumbar Spine | Cornell University |
| Hrishikesh Srinagesh | Serial Biomarker Monitoring Predicts Long Term Outcomes in Acute Graft Versus Host Disease | University of Wisconsin |
| Elizabeth Walker | Dialysis facility profit status and referral for kidney transplant | Mount Sinai School of Medicine |
| Jacqueline Westerdahl | Using infant exertion to tailor treadmill intervention | Indiana University School of Medicine |
| Leah Zuroff | Toxicity of Released B Cell Products in Multiple Sclerosis: Effects on Neurons and Oligodendrocytes | Washington University in St. Louis |