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Research Rainmakers: The UC Office of Research celebrates its outstanding researchers

Research Rainmakers: The UC Office of Research celebrates its outstanding researchers

 

On January 25th, the UC Office of Research celebrated the outstanding achievements of faculty’s sponsored research awards in fiscal year 2023. Those recognized are in the top 25% in each of three categories: Arts, humanities, social sciences (AHSS); Science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM), and College of Medicine researchers.  Additionally, the UC Office of Research also recognized the top collaborative research awards from across the university. 

Below is the full list of the researchers, their colleges, and the number of times they have been recognized for this accomplishment since fiscal year 2016. 

 

 

Allied Health Sciences

Pierce E Boyne, 6

Xan Boone, 3

Dana Michelle Harley, 3

Jennifer Jean Vannest, 3

Lesley J Becker, 1

Anne Elizabeth Roma, 1

 

Arts and Sciences

Hairong Guan, 8

Michael D. Sokoloff, 6

Sarah W Whitton, 6

Ryan J White, 4

Danielle Bessett, 3

Stacie F Holloway, 3

Steven Robert Howe, 3

Ashley Elizabeth Ross, 3

Joshua B Benoit, 2

Elizabeth A Hobson, 2

Philip James Ilten, 2

Wei Liu, 2

Annette Ruth Rowe, 2

Erinn L Green, 1

Joshua B Gross, 1

In-Kwon Kim, 1

Daniel Murphy, 1

Amy Townsend-Small, 1

Isiah M Warner, 1

Gregory Hal Winger, 1

 

Clermont College

James Cullen, 7

 

Design Architecture Art & Planning

Myoung Ok Kim, 2

Brooke C Brandewie, 1

Ashley Kubley, 1

 

Education Criminal Justice & Human Services

Benjamin M Kelcey, 8

Victoria Carr, 7

Deborah Marie Telfer, 6

Myrinda Schweitzer Smith, 5

Paula H. Smith, 5

Orville Mcdonald, 3

Jennifer Riggie Ottley, 2

Christina R Carnahan, 1

Tammy Lee Dean, 1

Kathryn Ann Doyle, 1

Casey Hord, 1

Joseph Samuel Johnson, 1

Mustafa Murat Ozer, 1

Hye Pae, 1

 

Engineering & Applied Science

Ephraim J. Gutmark, 7

Jason C. Heikenfeld, 7

Frank M Gerner, 6

Jay Lee, 6

John Martin Emmert, 4

Rashmi Jha, 4

Lilit Yeghiazarian, 4

Marc M Cahay, 3

Whitney B. Gaskins, 3

Dionysios D. Dionysiou, 2

Xiaodong Jia, 2

Prashant Khare, 2

Munir Darwish Nazzal, 2

Mohamed Ahmed, 1

Sundararaman Anand, 1

Sivaraman Balachandran, 1

Daniel Roman Cuppoletti, 1

Tao Li, 1

Mingming Lu, 1

Raj M Manglik, 1

Aashish Priye, 1

Mark J Schulz, 1

Vesselin N. Shanov, 1

Rajnikant Sharma, 1

Ying Sun, 1

 

Lindner College of Business

Katherine Anne Harmon, 1

 

Medicine

Richard D Branson, 8

Joseph P. Broderick, 8

Jose A. Cancelas-Perez, 8

Robert M. Cohen, 8

Melissa P Delbello, 8

Guochang Fan, 8

Carl J. Fichtenbaum, 8

Michael D Goodman, 8

Pooja Khatri, 8

Francis X. McCormack, 8

William Miller, 8

Diego Perez-Tilve, 8

Thomas B. Thompson, 8

T. John Winhusen, 8

Daniel Woo, 8

Ying Xia, 8

William Sean Davidson, 7

Steve Davidson, 7

Timothy A. Pritts, 7

Jaime C. Robertson, 7

Thomas C Blakeman, 6

Kelly Jo Brunst, 6

Albert Owens, 6

Sakthivel Sadayappan, 6

Yvonne M. Ulrich-Lai, 6

Jane J Yu, 6

Xiaoting Zhang, 6

John Thomas Cunningham, 5

Jiajie Diao, 5

Kevin Haworth, 5

James P. Herman, 5

Pamposh D. Kaul, 5

Ardythe Morrow, 5

Susan E. Waltz, 5

Jason Joseph Winnick, 5

Emily DeFranco, 4

Brandon Foreman, 4

Kristin Hudock, 4

Yu Luo, 4

Jason T McMullan, 4

Jeffrey R Strawn, 4

Achala Vagal, 4

Trisha Michel Wise-Draper, 4

Hyacinth Idu Hyacinth, 3

Gurjit Khurana-Hershey, 3

Aram Zabeti, 3

Debra Lynn Breneman, 2

John Clark Byrd, 2

Emily K. Curran, 2

Andrew P. Duker, 2

Jean Elwing, 2

Jason C Gardner, 2

Moises Arturo Huaman Joo, 2

Hani Kushlaf, 2

Tahir Latif, 2

Jareen Meinzen-Derr, 2

Saundra L Regan, 2

Tiina A. Reponen, 2

Richard J. Ryan, 2

Pier Paolo Scaglioni, 2

Ahmad Reza Sedaghat, 2

Abhinav Sidana, 2

Davendra Pratap Singh Sohal, 2

Michael Anthony Thomas, 2

Eric Steven Wohleb, 2

Manish Anand, 1

Amit Bhattacharya, 1

Robert Matthew Burkes, 1

Ranjan Deka, 1

Zhongyun Dong, 1

Konstantinos Drosatos, 1

Edward Anthony Faber, 1

Alan Bernard Fleischer, 1

Chen Gao, 1

Jun-lin Guan, 1

Nishant Gupta, 1

Bryan Christopher Hambley, 1

Igal Ifergan, 1

Jennifer Lynn Leddon, 1

Satish Kumar Madala, 1

Eva Akshitkumar Mistry, 1

Fabiano G. Nery, 1

Laura Benjamin Ngwenya, 1

Liran Oren, 1

Luis Patino Duran, 1

Charles Joseph Prestigiacomo, 1

Michael D Privitera, 1

Atsuo Sasaki, 1

Tom Conrad Maugans Seegar, 1

Shimul Shah, 1

Wei Shi, 1

Abhishek Singla, 1

Sandra L. Starnes, 1

Katherine Elizabeth Vest, 1

Kyle Walsh, 1

Jun Wang, 1

Lily Li Li Wang, 1

 

Nursing

Jennifer A Lanzillotta, 3

Tamilyn Bakas, 2

Donna Green, 2

 

Office of Research

Jane E. Combs, 1

 

Pharmacy

Timothy Nicholas Phoenix, 4

Yuhang Zhang, 4

Kevin Li, 3

Pankaj Desai, 1

Bingfang Yan, 1

 

VP Student Affairs

Cheri Lynn Westmoreland, 5

Deatra Renee Greene Ndiaye, 3

 

Top Collaborative Awards

Statewide Coordination of the Ohio Child Welfare Training Program (OCWTP)

Arts & Sciences Psychology & College of Allied Health Sciences School of Social Work

Steven Robert Howe, Xan Boone, Erinn L Green, and Stacie F Holloway

 

Strategy for Improving Stroke Treatment Response (SISTER) Trial

College of Medicine: Neurology and Rehabilitation & Radiology

Pooja Khatri, Yasmin N Aziz, Joseph P. Broderick, Eva Akshitkumar Mistry, Achala Vagal, and Lily Li Li Wang

 

Center for Clinical and Translational Science and Training - UL1 portion

College of Medicine: Psychiatry, Radiology & Pediatrics

Jeffrey R Strawn, Achala Vagal, Jareen Meinzen-Derr, and Jessica Kahn

 

Validation of Early Prognostic Data for Recovery Outcomes after Stroke for Future, Higher Yield Trials (VERIFY)

College of Medicine: Neurology and Rehabilitation & Radiology

Pooja Khatri, Achala Vagal, and Lily Li Li Wang

 

Treatment with Endovascular Intervention for STroke Patients with Existing Disability (TESTED)

College of Medicine: Neurology and Rehabilitation & Radiology

Eva Akshitkumar Mistry, Pooja Khatri, Abdelkader Mahammedi, Achala Vagal, and Lily Li Li Wang

 

CAPSTONE: Central And Peripheral STrOke inflammatioN with Exosomes

College of Medicine: Emergency Medicine, Environmental and Public Health Sciences, & Neurology and Rehabilitation & College of Engineering and Applied Science: Biomedical Engineering

Kyle Walsh, Leyla Esfandiari, Scott M Langevin, and Daniel Woo