Award Winner Stories

The Stories Behind the Top 10 Award Winners

The Clinical Research Forum’s annual Top 10 Clinical Research Achievement Awards honor outstanding accomplishments in clinical research. This national competition seeks to identify major advances resulting from the nation’s investment in research to benefit the health and welfare of its citizens. These award-winning studies exemplify major advances resulting from the nation's investment in research to benefit the health and welfare of its citizens, and reflect the influential work being conducted by investigators at nearly 60 research institutions and hospitals across the United States, as well as at partner institutions from the around the world.

The Journal of Clinical and Translational Science (JCTS) features the award recipients' stories. Click on the links below to learn about how each recipient got involved in clinical research and how they navigated their award-winning research:

Aaron Richterman, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases), Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine at the University of  Pennsylvania - "The effects of government-led cash transfers on all-cause mortality in low - and middle-income countries" 

Andrew H. Talal, MD, MPH, Professor of Medicine, Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo - "Hepatitis C Treatment through Facilitated Telehealth in Opioid Use Disorder"

 

David Maahs, MD, PhD, Lucile Salter Packard Professor of Pediatrics, Stanford University- "Teamwork, Targets, Technology, and Tight Control (4T) study"

Demilade Adedinsewo, M.B., Ch. B., Assistant Professor of Medicine, Mayo- "Clinic Non-invasive detection of cardiac allograft rejection with artificial intelligence"

 

 Evan Weber, PhD, Assistant Professor, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia/The University of Pennsylvania- "Memory Reprogramming Enhances CAR T Cell Efficacy"

 

Kevin Ward Gibbs, MD, Associate Professor of Pulmonary/Critical Care/Allergy and Immunology/Internal Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine- "Noninvasive Ventilation for Preoxygenation During Emergency Intubation"

James LaBelle, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology/Stem Cell Transplant, University of Chicago- "Stem Cell Gene Therapy for Patients with Sickle Cell Disease"

Jonathan M. Davis, MD, Vice-chair of Pediatrics, Tufts Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine- "The GEMINI Study"

 

Keith McCrae, MD, Staff and Professor of Molecular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic- "Pomalidomide for Bleeding in Patients with Heditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia"

Loren Miller, MD, MPH, Professor and Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases, Lundquist Institue at Harbor-UCLA- "Protect Trial: Protecting Nursing Home Residents from Infection and Hospitalization"

Mehdi Shishehbor, DO, MPH, PhD, President, Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute and Professor of Medicine, Cleveland University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center - "The PROMISE II Trial, Percutaneous Deep Vein Arterialization for the Treatment of Late-Stage Chronic Limb-Threatening Ischemia (PROMISE)"

Nasser Altorki, MD, David B. Skinner, M.D. Professor of Thoracic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine  - "Lobar or Sublobar Resection for Peripheral Stage IA Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer"

Waldemar A. Carlo, MD, Co-Division Director of Neonatology, Edwin M. Dixon Chair in Neonatology Professor of Pediatrics, University of Alabama at Birmingham  - "Azithromycin to Prevent Sepsis or Death in Women Planning a Vaginal Birth"