Honors and Grants

Colin Harrington, Medical Science and Psychiatry and Human Behavior, received the Senior Citation from the MD Class of 2026, the highest honor awarded by the graduating class.

Audrey Tyrka, Psychiatry and Human Behavior, received the SUNY Purchase Distinguished Alumni Award at their commencement ceremony on May 15. Dr. Tyrka graduated summa cum laude from Purchase College in 1988 with a degree in psychology.

Thomas Bartnikas, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, B. Star Hampton, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Elizabeth O. Harrington, Medicine, and Alan Morrison, Medicine, received a five-year renewal of The Warren Alpert Medical School Basic Translational Research T35 grant in Cardiovascular Diseases. The program links medical students with faculty and their research projects on the molecular basis and pathobiology of cardiovascular, blood, and pulmonary diseases and related conditions, and/or the outcomes of prevention and treatment of these diseases. Funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, the program has run continuously since 2009.

Thomas B. Bartnikas and Arturo Andrade, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, received $2,457,583 for “Balancing Iron and Manganese Homeostasis in Hereditary Hemochromatosis” from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.     

Edward Huey,  Psychiatry and Human Behavior, received $984,818 for “ARTFL LEFFTDS Longitudinal Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration, Cycle 2 (ALLFTD2)- Clinical Core,” a subaward from the Mayo Clinic through the National Institute on Aging.

Tyler R. Kartzinel, Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, received $229,691 for “Collaborative Research: LTREB RENEWAL: Experimental determination of trophic dynamics and energy flows in a semiarid habitat in Chile” from the National Science Foundation.

Jonathan D. Kurtis, Mandar Naik, and Tanbir Najrana, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, received $3,813,153 for “Discovery and development of novel antimalarial drugs” from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

John Marshall,  Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry, received $468,815 for “Novel BDNF-TrkB enhancing therapeutic to treat traumatic brain injury” from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.

Martin S. Taylor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, received $70,000 for “Ultrasensitive Line-1 Protein Assays for Early Cancer Diagnosis from Pap smears and other fluids” from the Rhode Island Life Science Hub.

Edward Wilson, Neuroscience, received $125,100 for “Development of a Scalable CSF YWHAG:NPTX2 ELISA Assay for Cognitive Prognosis in Early AD,” a subaward from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai through the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation.