AGA announces awardees to receive research funding
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The American Gastroenterological Association announced the 17 researchers who will receive funding through the AGA Research Foundation Awards program, according to a press release.
The 2020 awards will offer $2.2 million in research funding to support investigators’ work that will enhance the understanding of gastrointestinal and liver conditions and lead to better treatment options for patients with these conditions.
“This year’s selected awardees are committed to transforming the gastroenterology field with their research projects that span the entire digestive tract,” Robert S. Sandler, MD, MPH, AGAF, chair, AGA Research Foundation, said in the release. “We are excited to continue the foundation’s tradition of excellence with the support of many gifted early career researchers and look forward to seeing how their research evolves with this funding.”
According to the release, 71% of the 2020 awardees are early career investigators and about one-third of awardees are performing clinical research. The award program recruits, retains and supports the GI and hepatology researchers. The foundation’s funding provides recipients with protected time to continue research to take it to the next level.
The 2020 AGA Research Foundation Awards program awardees are:
AGA Research Scholar Award
Andrea Geisz, PhD, from Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine
Haifa Mtaweh, MD, from The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto in Canada
Long H. Nguyen, MD, MS, from Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston
Shuang Wang, PhD, from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City
AGA-Gastric Cancer Foundation Ben Feinstein Memorial Research Scholar Award in Gastric Cancer
Samuel J. Klempner, MD, from Massachusetts General Hospital
AGA-Takeda Pharmaceuticals Research Scholar Award in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
José Ordovas-Montañes, PhD, from Boston Children’s Hospital
AGA-Caroline Craig Augustyn & Damian Augustyn Award in Digestive Cancer
Peter S. Liang, MD, MPH, from New York University Langone Health
AGA-R. Robert & Sally Funderburg Research Award in Gastric Cancer
Ajay Goel, PhD, from the Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center in Monrovia, California
AGA-Allergan Foundation Pilot Research Award in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Chun-Jun Guo, PhD, from Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City
AGA-Allergan Foundation Pilot Research Award in Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
Jun Wu, PhD, from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
AGA-Elsevier Pilot Research Award
Hien Dang, PhD, from Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Tirthadipa Pradhan-Sundd, PhD, from the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania
AGA-Pfizer Young Investigator Pilot Research Award in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Mallory Chavannes, MD, MHSc, from the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, California
Trevor M. Darby, PhD, MS, from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia
Michael Howitt, PhD, Stanford University School of Medicine in California
AGA-Rome Foundation Functional Gastrointestinal and Motility Disorders Pilot Research Award
Nitin Kumar Ahuja, MD, MS, from the University of Pennsylvania
Bindu Chandrasekharan, PhD, from Emory University
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