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Residents Shine for 29th annual Research Day
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Congratulations to our Internal Medicine and Med/Peds residents for impressive presentations during Resident Poster Day, a time-honored tradition for young clinician scientists. There were 24 posters on clinical cases, QI projects, research, or educational innovation. Check out the winners' research summaries and a photo presentation here.
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Top Stories
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Pilot Research Awards Program Expands to Support Team Science
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DOM's Pilot Research Awards program is expanding its 2026-27 awards to include cross-divisional research among scientists of all career stages. The goal is to offer a collaborative-project mechanism designed to foster team science, generate preliminary data, and position investigators for larger multi-investigator extramural grants. Up to four proposals will receive funding of up to $30,000 for individual proposals, or up to $60,000 for multidisciplinary collaborative projects. More details.
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Kidney Transplant Team Spotlights Record-Setting Survivor
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Miklos Molnar, MD, PhD, of Nephrology and Transplant Institute, joined colleagues in celebrating a kidney recipient whose organ is 100 years old. The local man was 16 years old when our doctors transplanted a kidney from his mother, who was born in 1926. Read this remarkable story.
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Trio of Scientists' Teamwork Nets Prestigious NCI Grant
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An innovative team of pancreatic cancer researchers has begun a new multi-investigator project funded by a $3 million National Cancer Institute grant. The effort unifies separate discoveries from the Wilmot Cancer Institute on how tumors hide from the immune system and spread, aided by a cell’s 24-hour “sleep-wake” cycle. Read more.
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AMWA Honors Algase for Leadership, Mentorship
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Leslie Algase, MD, of Primary Care, was selected to receive the INSPIRE Award from the American Medical Women’s Association Leadership Council. She is being celebrated for exemplary leadership, mentorship, and a deep commitment to changing the culture of medicine. Read more.
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Bulletin Board
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Opportunities & Updates
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Registration is open for the Infectious Disease and Immunity Symposium on November 2. The emphasis is on research at the intersection of infection, immunity, and human diseases. Sessions include Transplant Immunology and Infection; Neuroscience and Infectious Disease; and Microbes, Environment, Infection and Immunity. The all-day event will be held in the Flaum Atrium and Class of ‘62 Auditorium. Register here.
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Submission deadline extended for Research in Health Equity Symposium: Proposals for oral presentations, posters, and workshops during the 2027 symposium are due October 15. The Office of Engagement and Wellbeing event, set for February 4-5, focuses on healing communities.
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Webinar on Strong Expansion Project—What’s Ahead: What’s Ahead: CEO David Linehan will moderate a discussion on the Strong Expansion Project, what it means and what’s ahead, featuring SMH Chief Operating Officer Deirdre Salanger and Chief Nurse Executive Kate Valcin. Register here for the October 5 discussion.
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RFA: CTSI Pilot Studies Program in Translational Science: This program funds pilot projects in translational science through multiple awards that address fundamental challenges and barriers common to translational science research, which generates scientific and operational innovations to overcome longstanding challenges in the translational research pipeline. CTSI will fund projects that focus on generalizability, dissemination, and implementation of solutions, making research faster, more efficient, and more impactful. Read the RFA for more information about the five awards.
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Nominate Faculty for Academic Mentoring Excellence: Awards are given in three categories: junior faculty, basic science research, and clinical care and research (residents, fellows, and clinical trainees). Nominations are due October 26 and awardees will be honored at the April 19 Faculty Recognition Celebration.
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Off the Clock
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Faculty and staff turned out in huge numbers to run, walk, and pedal during 2026 Wilmot Warrior Weekend September 19 and 20. More than $880,000 was raised for cancer research and the Judy DiMarzo Cancer Survivorship Program at Wilmot Cancer Institute. Find more familiar faces in the photo gallery.
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Special Announcements
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Publications
- Carla Casulo, MD, of Hematology/Oncology, was an author of " Patterns of Care, Outcomes, and Prognostics for Transformed Follicular Lymphoma in the Rituximab Era," published in Haematologica.
- Yumei Feng Earley, MD, PhD, of Nephrology, was an author of “ORAI CaČ⁺Channels and STIM1 Drive Capillary-to-Arteriole Communication in Neurovascular Coupling,” published in Science Signaling.
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Miklos Z. Molnar, MD, PhD, of Nephrology, was an author of “Performance of the iBox Prognostication System in African American Kidney Transplant Recipients” published in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.
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Social Spotlight
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