Recent Publications and Grants

Engaged in diverse basic, translational and clinical research, our faculty routinely publish in prestigious journals and successfully compete for major grants from national funders.

Recent Publications

Egede LE, Campbell JA, Walker RJ, Fraser RA, Ekwunife O. (2025) Understanding the Roles of Fatalism and Self-Efficacy on Clinical and Behavioral Outcomes for African American with Type 2 Diabetes: A Systematic Review. Current diabetes reports (May), 25(1): 31.
Oubraim S, Fauzan M, Studholme K, Gordon C, Glaser ST, Shen RY, Ojima I, Kaczocha M, Haj-Dahmane S. (2025) Astrocytic FABP5 mediates retrograde endocannabinoid transport at central synapses. iScience (May), 28(5): 112342. doi:10.1016/j.isci.2025.112342
Rialon KL, Smith C, Rentea RM, Acker SN, Baird R, Beres AL, Chang HL, Christison-Lagay ER, Diesen DL, Englum BR, Gonzalez KW, Gulack BC, Ham PB, Huerta CT, Kulaylat AN, Levene TL, Lucas DJ, Mansfield SA, Pennell C, Ricca RL, Sulkowski JP, Tashiro J, Wakeman D, Yousef Y, Kelley-Quon LI, Kawaguchi A, . (2025) Functional Outcomes for Patients With Congenital Anorectal Malformations: A Systematic Review and Evidence-based Guideline From the APSA Outcomes and Evidence Based Practice Committee. Journal of pediatric surgery (May), 60(5): 162243.
Gonzalez Bosquet J, Polio A, George E, Tarhini AA, Cosgrove CM, Huang MS, Corr B, Leiser AL, Salhia B, Darcy K, Tarney CM, Dood RL, Dockery LE, Edge SB, Cavnar MJ, Landrum L, Rounbehler RJ, Churchman M, Wagner VM. (2025) Training, Validating, and Testing Machine Learning Prediction Models for Endometrial Cancer Recurrence. JCO precision oncology (May), 9: e2400859.
Huang C, Zheng E, Zheng W, Zhang H, Cheng Y, Zhang X, Shijo V, Bing RW, Komornicki I, Harris LM, Bonaccio E, Takabe K, Zhang E, Xu W, Xia J. (2025) Enhanced clinical photoacoustic vascular imaging through a skin localization network and adaptive weighting. Photoacoustics (Apr), 42: 100690. doi:10.1016/j.pacs.2025.100690
Falls Z, Zhang X, Jacobs DM, Jette G, Jordan AE, Gibson W, Bednarczyk EM, Elkin PL, Leonard KE. (2025) Predictors of the Rapid vs Longer Term Development of Opioid Use Disorder or Overdose among Clients Treated for an Alcohol Use Problem. Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs (Apr)
Falls Z, Zhang X, Jacobs DM, Jette G, Jordan AE, Gibson W, Bednarczyk EM, Elkin PL, Leonard KE. (2025) Predictors of the Rapid vs Longer Term Development of Opioid Use Disorder or Overdose among Clients Treated for an Alcohol Use Problem. Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs (Apr).
Winchester DJ, Singh L, Edge SB, Allison KH, Barlow WE, Bossuyt V, Chavez-MacGregor M, Conant EF, Connolly JL, De Los Santos JF, Hayes DF, Hylton NM, Mittendorf EA, Plichta JK, Provenzano E, Salerno KE, Sharma P, Symmans WF, Weaver D, Hortobagyi GN, , . (2025) Novel Postneoadjuvant Prognostic Breast Cancer Staging System. Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (Apr)JCO2401739.
Ruzhansky K, Li Y, Wolfe GI, Muppidi S, Guptill JT, Hehir MK, Dimachkie MM, Kaminski HJ, Howard JF, Narayanaswami P. (2025) Standardization of Myasthenia Gravis Outcome Measures in Clinical Practice. A Report of the MGFA Task Force. Muscle & nerve (Apr).
Lerman J, Restrepo Correa A.M. (2025) Sevoflurane Washin With the Dräger Apollo and GE Datex Ohmeda Aisys Workstations in Healthy Children. Pediatric Anesthesia (Apr) doi:10.1111/pan.15106
Nepali S, Chen M, Karthikeyan B, Sonkawade SD, Mahajan SD, Spernyak J, Sharma UC, Pokharel S. (2025) Claudin 1 dysregulation disrupts coronary microvascular integrity and impairs cardiac function. Atherosclerosis (Apr), 403: 119149.
Khedr M, Gandhi S, Roy AM, Alharbi M, George A, Attwood K, Khoury T. (2025) Breast biomarkers evolution between primary and distant metastasis: incidence and significance. Histopathology (Apr), 86(5): 793-804. doi:10.1111/his.15387
Kahlert L, Patel KD, Lichstrahl MS, Li R, He C, Gulick AM, Townsend CA. (2025) l-2,3-Diaminopropionate Binding Mode of the SulM Adenylation Domain Limits Engineering Monobactam Analogue Biosynthesis with Larger Substrates. JACS Au (Apr), 5(4): 1992-2003.
Thivalapill N, Jenkins TM, Inge TH, Xie C, Courcoulas AP, Harmon CM, Helmrath MA, Sisley S, Michalsky MP, Ryder JR, . (2025) Functional mobility and pain are improved for 6?years after adolescent bariatric surgery. Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) (Apr).
Tan MG, Downing MB, Harmon CB, Cappel JA. (2025) Repair of an Extensive Defect Involving the Nasal Sidewall, Cheek, and Medial Canthus. Dermatologic surgery : official publication for American Society for Dermatologic Surgery [et al.] (Apr), 51(4): 437-439.
Nitsche LJ, Curtin L, Sexton S, Khoury T, Prey JD, Yendamuri S, Demmy TL. (2025) Preclinical experience with cisplatin, gemcitabine, and doxorubicin in pulmonary suffusion. JTCVS open (Apr), 24: 484-495. doi:10.1016/j.xjon.2024.12.012
Oubraim S, Hausknecht K, Micov V, Shen RY, Haj-Dahmane S. (2025) Chemogenetic inhibition of prefrontal cortex inputs to dorsal raphe reduces anxiety behaviors in male rat model of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. Scientific reports (Apr), 15(1): 14397. doi:10.1038/s41598-025-99181-8
Lynn MB, Geddes SD, Chahrour M, Maillé S, Caya-Bissonnette L, Harkin E, Harvey-Girard É, Haj-Dahmane S, Naud R, Béïque JC. (2025) Nonlinear recurrent inhibition through facilitating serotonin release in the raphe. Nature neuroscience (Apr).

Research Grants

A phase 3 double-blind study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of oral ozanimod compared to oral fingolimod in children and adolescents with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis. Michael Dwyer, III (Co-Investigator). Bristol Myers Squibb. $1,649,376. 6/1/2023-12/1/2032.
CTSA State University of New York at Buffalo. Zackary Falls (Contributor). National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS). $29,204,726. 1/1/2025-12/1/2031.
Clinical and Translational Science Award. Core Operations Special Populations. Ralph Benedict (Co-Investigator). NIH. $29,204,726. 1/1/2025-12/1/2031.
Clinical and Translational Science Award. University at Buffalo Clinical and Translational Science Institute. Timothy Murphy (Principal Investigator). NIH. 1/1/2025-12/1/2031.
Molecular Physiology of NMDA Receptors. Gabriela Popescu (Principal Investigator). NINDS. $4,200,000. 5/1/2023-4/1/2031.
NIH NCATS ASPIRE Design Award. Ram Samudrala (Principal Investigator). NIH. $100,000. 9/1/2019-1/1/2030.
NIH NCATS ASPIRE Reduction-to-Practice Award. Ram Samudrala (Co-Principal Investigator). NCATS. $1,220,000. 8/1/2021-1/1/2030.
Selective galactosylceramidase ablation to study the pathogenesis of Krabbe leukodystrophy. Pablo Paez (Co-Investigator). National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS). $1,950,000. 2/1/2025-1/1/2030.
Selective galactosylceramidase ablation to study the pathogenesis of Krabbe leukodystrophy. Daesung Shin (Principal Investigator). NIH. $2,013,407. 12/1/2024-12/1/2029.
Overdose Data to Action in States (OD2A): Bio surveillance. Brian Clemency (Principal Investigator). Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Subaward from NYS Department of Health/Health Research Inc.). $250,000. 9/1/2024-8/1/2029.
Rhythm Evaluation for AntiCoagulaTion for Atrial Fibrillation (REACT AF). Anne Curtis (Co-Investigator). NIH. $66,278. 8/1/2023-7/1/2029.
Leveraging small molecule inhibitors to improve CD19 CAR T cell immunotherapy for KMT2A-rearranged ALL. Lisa Niswander (Principal Investigator). NIH/NCI. 7/1/2024-7/1/2029.
Characterizing the role of Elevated dNTP pools in sensitizing the replisome. Jennifer Surtees (Principal Investigator). NIGMS. $2,448,745. 9/1/2024-6/1/2029.
NIMHD Center of Excellence in Investigator Development and Community Engagement. Timothy Murphy (Principal Investigator). NIH. $3,600,000. 7/1/2024-6/1/2029.
Molecular Mechanisms of Severe Diabetic Retinopathy. Joshua Jianxin Wang (Co-Investigator). NIH/NEI. $2,374,855. 2/1/2020-5/1/2029.

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