Celebrate our Researchers
In health care, research is the foundation for everything we do. SUNY Downstate faculty and staff contribute daily to knowledge that shapes our world.
Whether our researchers peer through a microscope or put a microscope on the practice of healthcare itself, our work changes the world.
Research at SUNY Downstate has yielded decades of innovation. Ongoing work in the basic sciences, translational research and clinical trials continue that legacy. And we continue to make advances, in public health studies, health information technology and evidence-based research on nursing.
The result: Medicine and healthcare as equitable as it is advanced.
New Awards Received in 2025
Submitting grant proposals is not easy, nor is the work itself. Therefore, we want to congratulate the following researchers for their hard work in achieving this - no small feat!
Congratulations to the following researchers that have received a new award or competitive renewal in 2025. For more information on clinical trials open to enrollment, please visit our Clinical Trials website.
Carla Boutin-Foster, MD
Sponsor: American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2026
"ECHO - Early Exposure for College & High School Students in Orthopedics"
Sharon Glick, MD
Sponsor: Janssen Scientific Affairs LLC
July 1, 2025 - June 30, 2026
"Skin of Color Research Fellowship 2025-2026"
Sharon Glick, MD
Sponsor: Janssen Scientific Affairs LLC
July 1, 2025 - June 30, 2026
"SUNY Downstate Dermatology Skin of Color Graduate Research"
Sharifa Nasreen, MD, PhD, MPH
Sponsor: Regents of the University of Michigan
April 1, 2025 - May 31, 2025
"Consortium Coordinating Center for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research on COVID-19/Project: Trust in Health System & COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in the US"
Adam Budzikowski, MD
Sponsor: University of Rochester
January 1, 2025 - June 30, 2026
"Comparative Effectiveness of Carvedilol vs Metoprolol Succinate in Heart Failure Patients with an Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator"
Itsaso Garcia-Arcos, PhD
Sponsor: Sinsheimer Foundation
January 1, 2025 - December 3 1, 2025
"Metabloic Reprogramming of Type 2 Cells in Pulmonary Fibrosis"
Jessica E. Yager, MD
Sponsor: Mother Cabrini Health Foundation
January 1, 2025 - December 3 1, 2025
"Back to Brooklyn"
Nuri Jacoby, MD
Sponsor: American Academy of Neurology Institute
"Expanding Clinican-Educator Tracks in Neurology Training Programs Throguh National Strategic-Priority Setting: A Mized Methods Study"
Richard Rubenstein, MD, PhD
Sponsor: Morehouse School of Medicine
March 1, 2025 - September 30, 2025
"Neuroimagining and Biofluid-Based Biomarker Assessments as Translational Pathophysiological Outcome Measures in TBI"
John Danias, MD
Sponsor: National Eye Institute
April 1, 2025 - May 31, 2030
"Elucidating the Molecular Changes of the Outflow Pathway Extracellular Matrix that Regulate Outflow Facility in Steroid-Induced Ocular Hypertension & Open Angle Glaucoma"
Jenny Libien, MD, PhD
Sponsor: CurePSP
June 1, 2025 - August 30, 2025
"Exploring Glial Dysfunction and Genetic Pathways in PSP"
Bernice Porjesz, MD
Sponsor: J H Tharp TUW Charitable
January 1, 2025 - December 3 1, 2025
"2024 Tharp Award in Honor Bernice Porjesz"
Brian K. McNeil, MD
Sponsor: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
September 1, 2025 - August 3 1, 2027
"Health Policy Fellows Brian Keith McNeil"