Suzanne Bakken, RN, DNSc, the Alumni Professor of Nursing and Professor of Biomedical Informatics, a 2007 CaMPR Phase I award recipient and BMIR key member, has won the Friends of the National Institute of Nursing Research's highest honor, The Pathfinder Award.  Dr. Bakken has also received $104,000 over one year from the National Institute of Nursing Research for "Administrative Supplement for Comparative Effectiveness Research Workforce Development."

Andrea Califano, PhD, Professor of Systems Biology and founding Director of Columbia's Initiative for Systems Biology, a BMIR key member, and Barry H. Honig, PhD, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics and Director of the Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, received $18.7 million over five years from the National Cancer Institute for the National Center: Multiscale Analysis of Genomic and Cellular Networks (MAGNet).

Peter D. Canoll, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Pathology and Cell Biology, a 2007 and 2009 Imaging Core pilot award recipient, and Steven Rosenfeld, MD, PhD, the John and Elisabeth Harris Professor of Neurology and Professor of Pathology, have received a one-year $442,000 grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for "Myosin II and Glioma Dispersion."

Charles DiMaggio, PhD, MPH, Associate Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology and Epidemiology, a 2008 Irving Institute/CTO pilot award recipient, has received $350,000 over two years from the CDC/National Center for Injury Prevention and Control for "Child Pedestrian Injuries and Built Urban Environment: Evaluation of a Safe Route to School Program."

Burton L. Edelstein, DDS, MPH, Professor of Clinical Dental Medicine and of Health Policy and Management, a 2008 CaMPR Phase I award recipient, has been awarded two Health Resources and Services Administration training grants totaling $3 million over five years to expand web-based curricula in public health, public policy, and interdisciplinary care; promote dual training in public health and clinical dentistry; and increase community engagement by students, residents, and alumni.

Heather Greenlee, ND, PhD, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine, a 2008-09 KL2 scholar has received a two-year $379,000 grant from the National Cancer Institute for "Implementing Dietary Change Among Hispanic Breast Cancer Survivors."

Karen Marder, MD, MPH, the Sally Kerlin Professor of Neurology in the Sergievsky Center and in the Taub Institute, CRR Director and Irving Institute Associate Director, received $500,000 for 11 months from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for "Genetic Epidemiology of Parkinson's Disease."

Ramin Parsey, MD, PhD, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, a 2007 Imaging Core pilot award recipient, Myrna Weissman, PhD, Professor of Epidemiology (in Psychiatry), and Patrick McGrath, MD, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, have been awarded $7.6 million over four years from the National Institute of Mental Health for "Biosignatures of Treatment Remission in Major Depression."

Mishaela Rubin, MD, the Irving Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, a 2007 Irving Institute/CTO pilot award recipient, has received a two-year $400,000 grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases for "The Skeletal Effects of Reducing Inflammation in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus."

Melissa S. Stockwell, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics and of Population and Family Health, a 2008-09 CaMPR Phase I and II award recipient, has received $449,950 over two years from CDC/National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases for "Text 4Health-Kids: Text Message Reminder-Recalls for Early Childhood Vaccination."

Krishna Surapaneni, MD, a 2010 Irving Institute/CTO pilot award recipient, joined P&S July 1, 2010, as Assistant Professor of Clinical Radiology.

Aris Floratos, PhD, Assistant Clinical Professor of Biomedical Informatics, and Andrea Califano, PhD, Director of the J.P. Sulzberger Columbia Genome Center and Professor of Biomedical Informatics, both BMIR key members, have received a two-year $883,000 renewal from the international Serious Adverse Events Consortium for "iSAEC Data Analysis and Coordination Center."

Randolph S. Marshall, MD, the Elizabeth K. Harris Professor of Neurology, a 2007-08 CaMPR Phase I & II award recipient, received a four-year $5.3 million renewal from the National Institute on Neurological Disorders and Stroke for the New York Columbia Collaborative Specialized Program of Translational Research in Acute Stroke.

Michael Rosenbaum, MD, Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics and CRR Associate Director,and Rochelle Goldsmith, PhD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine were co-recipients of the Science Unbound Foundation's award for Best Paper in 2009 for "Effects of Experimental Weight Perturbation on Skeletal Muscle Work Efficiency, Fuel Utilization, and Biochemistry in Human Subjects," published online in the November 2009 edition of the American Journal of Physiology – Integrative and Comparative Physiology.

Athanasios I. Zavras, DMD, Associate Professor, and Director, Division of Oral Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and an Irving Institute Executive Committee member, has been awarded a one-year grant of $280,000 from the National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Research for research titled "Whole Genome Association Study of Oral Cancer."

Emilio Arteaga-Solis, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics-Pediatric Pulmonology, a 2010 Irving Institute/CTO pilot award recipient, was selected to receive a John M. Driscoll Jr., MD, Children’s Fund competition award to study the role of leptin deficiency in the development of obesity-associated asthma.

Kimberly Noble, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (and in the Sergievsky Center), a 2009-10 CaMPR Phase I & II award recipient, was selected to receive a John M. Driscoll Jr., MD, Children’s Fund competition award for research titled "Socioeconomic Status and Literacy Development: An Epidemiologic Approach."

Igor Matushansky, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine-Oncology, a 2009 Irving Institute/CTO pilot award recipient, received the three-year $450,000 Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award for research titled, "Implementing and Imaging Epigenetic Based Differentiation Therapy for Solid Tumors."

Kathleen Friel, PhD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurobiology (in Psychiatry), a 2008-09 KL2 scholar, was one of four CUMC faculty members to receive a Professional Schools Diversity Research Fellowship, part of a $2 million initiative by Columbia President Lee Bollinger to promote and develop careers of diverse junior faculty.

Ali G. Gharavi, MD, the Marc Anthony Zambetti Assistant Professor of Medicine, a 2007 Irving Institute/CTO pilot award recipient, was awarded a five-year, $1.7 million grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases for research titled, "Identifying the Earliest Events in HIV-1 Associated Nephropathy via Genome-Wide Detection of Aberrant Transregulation."

Kathleen Hickey, EdD, Assistant Professor of Nursing, a 2007 CaMPR Phase I award recipient, was selected to attend the National Human Genome Research Institute's Summer Workshop in Genomics at the National Institutes of Health in summer 2010.

Elaine Larson, RN, PhD, Professor of Pharmaceutical and Therapeutic Research, Professor of Epidemiology, a 2008-09 CaMPR Phase I & II award recipient and RKSER key member, has been appointed to serve a three-year term on the National Advisory Council for Nursing Research, which advises on matters relating to the conduct and support of nursing research, training, health information dissemination, and other programs.

Jeremy Mao, DDS, PhD, an Irving Institute Executive Committee member, has been named the Edward V. Zegarelli Professor of Dental Medicine, effective April 1, 2010.

Jonathan Lu, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, a 2009 Imaging Core pilot award recipient, has been selected as a Paul Marks Scholar, which provides an annual stipend of $100,000 for three years.

Jose Luchsinger, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Medicine, a 2009 CaMPR Phase I award recipient and 2007-10 Irving Scholar received a two-year research grant by the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation, "Pilot Trial of Metformin in the Prevention of Alzheimer's Disease."

Ali G. Gharavi, MD, the Marc Anthony Zambetti Assistant Professor of Medicine, a 2007 Irving Institute/CTO pilot award recipient and 2003-06 Irving Scholar, received a $99,205 supplement from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases for “Genetics of Renal Hypodyslasia.” 

Thomas L. Nickolas, MD, MS, the Herbert Irving Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, a 2009-12 Irving Scholar, 2007-08 KL2 scholar, and 2004 MS/POR graduate, received $53,796 from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases to supplement his study “Bone Quality and Mechanical Competence In Chronic Kidney Disease.”

Dawn Hershman, MD, MS, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and Co-Director of the Breast Program for the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, a 2006-09 Irving Scholar, received a one-year $191,171 grant from the Breast Cancer Research Foundation for “Interventions to Reduce Cancer Treatment Complications.”

Suzanne Bakken, RN, DNSc, the Alumni Professor of Nursing and Professor of Biomedical Informatics (P&S), a 2007 CaMPR Phase I award recipient and BMIR key member, received $385,314 from the National Institute of Nursing Research to supplement the Center for Evidence-based Practice in the Underserved. A second supplement of $125,000 for the center is designated for summer research experiences for students and science educators.

Jonathan M. Barasch, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine-Nephrology and of Anatomy & Cell Biology, a DNMR faculty member, received a $99,400 supplement from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases for "Cytokines Convert Epithelial Precursors to Nephrons."

R. Graham Barr, MD, DrPH, Irving Assistant Professor of Medicine and Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (Mailman), a 2009 Imaging Core pilot award recipient, received $970,456 from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for research titled "Genome-wide and Linkage Study of Quantitative Emphysema Phenotypes," in collaboration with Stephen S. Rich, PhD, from the University of Virginia.

Raphael A. Clynes, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine and of Microbiology & Immunology, a 2007 and 2008 Irving Institute/CTO pilot award recipient, was awarded $21,270 from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases to supplement his research on the "Pathogenic Role of Islet Cell Abs in Autoimmune Diabetes."

Karina W. Davidson, PhD, Irving Associate Professor of Behavioral Medicine and TRANSFORM Co-Director has received a $4.1 million grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for "Comparison of Depression Interventions after Acute Coronary Syndrome (CODIACS)."

Burton L. Edelstein, DDS, Professor of Clinical Dental Medicine and of Health Policy and Management (Mailman), a 2008 CaMPR Phase I award recipient, has received $875,007 from the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities for the study, "Bio-behavioral Chronic Disease Management by Families of Young Minority Children."

Adolfo A. Ferrando, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and of Pathology (in the Institute for Cancer Genetics), a 2007 Irving Institute/CTO pilot award recipient, received a $533,649 in additional funding from the National Cancer Institute for "Mechanisms of T-cell Leukemogenesis Induced by NOTCH1."

William P. Fifer, PhD, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, a 2009 Irving Institute/CTO pilot award recipient, was awarded $1.2 million in additional funding from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development for his study, "Prenatal Alcohol in Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and Stillbirth (PASS) Network."

Donald W. Landry, MD, PhD, the Samuel Bard Professor of Medicine, Chair of Medicine, and Organic Synthesis Core Director received $1.19 million from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for "Metabolism in Heart Failure Translational Research Center."

Randolph S. Marshall, MD, the Elizabeth K. Harris Professor of Neurology, a 2007-08 CaMPR Phase I and II award recipient, received two supplements totaling $230,551 from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke to further support the New York Columbia Collaborative SPOTRIAS.

Melissa S. Stockwell, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics and of Population and Family Health (Mailman), and Elaine Larson, RN, PhD, Associate Dean for Research (School of Nursing) and Professor of Epidemiology (Mailman), and RKSER key member, have received $999,759 from the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities for "Appropriate Care of URI in Children of Latino Immigrants: The ACURI Project," a study that was awarded both the CaMPR Phase I and II awards during 2008-09.

Gudrun Aspelund, MD, MS, Assistant Professor of Surgery, a 2009 MS/POR graduate, was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and inducted into the American Pediatric Surgical Association.

Karina W. Davidson, PhD, Associate Director of the Irving Institute, TRANSFORM Co-Director and Herbert Irving Associate Professor of Behavioral Medicine, has been named Director of the Center for Behavioral Cardiovascular Health.

Heather Greenlee, ND, PhD, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine, a 2008-09 KL2 scholar, received $764,339 over five years to study the effects of antioxidant supplementation during breast cancer adjuvant therapy.

Daniel Kass, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, a 2008 Irving Institute/CTO pilot award recipient, received an 18-month $75,000 award from the ENTELLIGENCE Young Investigators Award Program to continue support of his research, "Targeting the MetAP2 Pathway in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension."

Elaine Larson, PhD, Professor of Pharmaceutical and Therapeutic Research, Professor of Epidemiology, and RKSER key member received a five-year $3.7 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in collaboration with Franklin D. Lowy, MD, Professor of Medicine and Pathology for the study "Risk Factors for Spread of Staphylococcus aureus in Prisons."

Nancy Reame, PhD, Mary Dickey Lindsay Professor, Director of the PhD program in Nursing, and PCSR Director, received a three-year $750,000 Advanced Education Nursing Grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration to support the program development and implementation of a new PhD program for TRANSIT: Training Nurse Scientists in Interdisciplinary and Translational Research in the Underserved.

Wahida Karmally, DrPH, RD, CDE, CLS, Director of the Bionutrition Research Core, Associate Research Scientist, and Lecturer in Dentistry has recently been awarded Fellow status with the National Lipid Association (NLA), a nonprofit, multidisciplinary medical society with over 3,500 members dedicated to preventing cardiovascular disease and reducing illness and deaths stemming from cholesterol and triglyceride disorders.

Chunhua Weng, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, a 2008 CaMPR Phase I award recipient, has been awarded a three-year $1 million research project (R01) grant by the National Library of Medicine to improve the use of electronic health records in the clinical trials eligibility screening process $25,000 Columbia University Professional Schools Diversity Research Fellowship, part of a $2 million initiative from Columbia President Lee Bollinger, to support her research proposal "Bridging the Semantic Gap Between Research Eligibility Criteria and Clinical Data."

Burton Edelstein, DDS, MPH, Professor of Clinical Dental Medicine, Chair of the Social and Behavioral Sciences section, and Professor of Clinical Health Policy & Management, a 2008 CaMPR Phase I award recipient, chaired the most recent semi-annual meeting of the Global Child Dental Health Taskforce, which is focused on making tangible improvements in child oral health worldwide by 2025.

Andrew Einstein, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine in Cardiology and Radiology, a 2008-10 KL2 scholar, received the 2008 Katz Young Investigator Prize in Cardiology Research for his research on minimizing the risk of cancer associated radiation exposure from computed tomography angiogram (CTA), a new, non-invasive imaging technique for the assessment of levels of calcium and fatty deposits in the coronary arteries.