The American Gastroenterological Association Research Foundation awarded 52 researchers funding in its 2017 award year.
Here are the award winners:
AGA Research Scholar Award
- Silvia Affo, PhD, Columbia University, New York, NY
- Michael Dougan, MD, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston
- Jay Thiagarajah, MBBS, PhD, Boston Children's Hospital
AGA-Takeda Pharmaceuticals Research Scholar Award in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Josephine Ni, MD, University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia
AGA-Gastric Cancer Foundation Research Scholar Award in Gastric Cancer
- Jose Saenz, MD, PhD, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
AGA-Bernard Lee Schwartz Designated Research Scholar Award in Pancreatic Cancer
- Florencia McAllister, MD, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston
AGA-R. Robert and Sally Funderburg Research Award in Gastric Cancer
- Zhibin Chen, MD, PhD, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
AGA-Caroline Craig Augustyn and Damian Augustyn Award in Digestive Cancer
- Saha Nissim, MD, PhD, Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston
AGA-June and Donald O. Castell, MD, Esophageal Clinical Research Award
- Kristle Lynch, MD, University of Pennsylvania
AGA-Dannon Gut Microbiome in Health Award
- Gary D. Wu, MD, University of Pennsylvania
AGA-Microbiome Junior Investigator Research Award
- Jeannette Messer, PhD, The University of Chicago
AGA-Medtronic Research and Development Pilot Award in Technology
- Bani Chander-Roland, MD, Northwell Hofstra School of Medicine in Hempstead, N.Y.
AGA-Pfizer Young Investigator Pilot Research Award in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Shrinivas Bishu, MD, University of Michigan in Ann Arbor
- David Boone, PhD, Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis
- Sarah Glover, DO, University of Florida in Gainesville
AGA-Rome Foundation Functional Gastroenterology and Motility Pilot Research Award
- Gianluca Cipriani, PhD, Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.
- Geoffrey Preidis, MD, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine in Houston
AGA-Elsevier Pilot Research Award
- Jennifer Lai, MD, The Regents of the University of California in San Francisco
- Jill Smith, MD, Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
AGA-Elsevier Gut Microbiome Pilot Research Award
- Minghua Tang, PhD, University of Colorado Denver in Aurora
AGA Investing in the Futures Student Research Fellowship
- Chandler Brown, Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C.
- Carlos Lodeiro, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso Paul L. Foster School of Medicine
- Alyssa Murillo, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine
- Kristeen Onyirioha, University of Texas San Antonio Health Sciences Center
- Gabriela Portilla Skerrett, San Juan Bautista School of Medicine in Puerto Rico
- Ray Ramirez, Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk
- Rani Richardson, University of Pennsylvania
- Nefertiti Tyehemba, State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse
- Elsie Ureta, California State University of Los Angeles
- Carlos Zavala, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
AGA-Moti L and Kamla Rustgi International Travel Award
- Zahra Dantes, PhD, Gastroenterology Laboratory, Klinikum rechts der Isar, TUM in Munich, Germany
- Magali de Bruyn, PhD, KU Leuven in Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium
AGA-GRG Fellow Abstract of the Year
- Parambir Dulai, MBBS, UC San Diego
AGA-GRG Fellow Abstract Prize
- Edward Barnes, MD, University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill
- Daniel Duncan, MD, Boston Children's Hospital
- Amy Engevik, PhD, Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn.
- Tossapol Kerdsirichairat, MD, University of Michigan Health System
- Anne-Marie Overstreet, PhD, Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis
- Shusuke Toden, PhD, Baylor University Medical Center/Baylor Research Institute
- Amy Tsou, MD, PhD, Boston Children's Hospital
- Lavanya Viswanathan, MD, MS, Augusta (Ga.) University
- Hongtao Wang, MD, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital
AGA Student Abstract of the Year
- Michael Laffin, MD, University of Alberta in Canada
AGA Student Abstract Prize
- Lauren Cole, University of Arizona College of Medicine in Phoenix
- Cindy Law, University of Ottawa in Canada
- Christopher Moreau University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
- Satish Munigala, , MPH, St. Louis University
- Rajiv Perinbasekar, MD, University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore
- Chung Sang Tse, MD, Mayo Clinic
- Anika Ullah, UC San Diego
- Kathy Williams, MS, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University in Camden, N.J.
- Quan Zhou, University of Michigan