By UBNow staff
Published July 28, 2025
Six Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences faculty members were cited as among UB’s best and brightest teachers and researchers by being named recipients of the university’s 2025 Exceptional Scholar and Teaching Innovation Awards.
The Exceptional Scholars Award honors faculty members for their outstanding research performance at different stages of their careers.
There are two awards: Sustained Achievement Awards for senior scholars and Young Investigator Awards for untenured scholars who received their terminal degree within the past eight years.
Both awards recognize work that has “garnered public and/or professional accolades beyond the norm.”
Sustained Achievement recipients are selected based on their body of work over a number of years.
The award is not meant to serve as a lifetime achievement honor, but rather as recognition for outstanding performance in a recent segment of a scholar’s career.
Recipients for 2025 from the Jacobs School are:
The Young Investigator Award is presented to untenured researchers whose work has garnered universal acclaim or been completed under the auspices of a prestigious fellowship grant.
Remi M. Adelaiye-Ogala, PhD, assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Hematology/Oncology, is a 2025 recipient in the Jacobs School.
UB’s Teaching Innovation Award recognizes faculty members who have used new methods and approaches to teaching that have had a demonstrable effect on enhancing student-learning outcomes, including innovative uses of educational technology.
All UB faculty members are eligible for the award.
A 2025 Jacobs School recipient is Jennifer A. Surtees, PhD, professor and chair of biochemistry, and associate dean for undergraduate education and STEM outreach.