Faculty Grants

  • Gary Miller, Environmental Health Sciences: $976,667 over five years from Cancer Research UK for "SAMBAI: Societal, Ancestry, Molecular and Biological Analyses of Inequalities."
  • Ying Wei, Iuliana Ionita-Laza, and Molei Liu, Biostatistics: $3,638,845 over five years from the National Institute on Aging for "Statistical Framework for Unraveling Age-Dependent Genetic Landscape of Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias: Harnessing Large-Scale EHR and DNA-Biobank Integration."
  • Wafaa El-Sadr, ICAP, Receives $1,584,460 Award from Gilead Sciences Through the NIH-funded HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN)
  • Allison Aiello and Daniel Belsky, Columbia Aging Center: $3,509,528 over five years from the National Institute on Aging for "Testing effects of cash transfers on biological aging and risk for Alzheimer’s Disease."

  • Lauren Houghton, Epidemiology: $3,373,752 over five years from the National Cancer Institute for "SPECTRUM (Studying PRIDE to Enhance Cancer screening guidelines for TRansgender Users of gender-affirMing hormones)."
  • Daniel Giovenco, assistant professor of sociomedical sciences, received a R61 grant from the National Cancer Institute ($675,599) to examine the impact of cigarette “corrective statements” now required by Department of Justice to be posted in U.S. tobacco retailers.
  • The U.S. National Institutes of Health awarded $7,722,583 to Columbia University to create and oversee an Exposomics Coordinating Center to organize and stimulate research on the human exposome—the cumulative measure of environmental exposures and corresponding biological responses. The Network for Exposomics in the U.S. Coordinating Center (NEXUS) is led by Gary Miller, Vice Dean for Research Strategy and Innovation and Professor of Environmental Health Sciences. Read more.
  • Silvia Martins, Epidemiology: $324,949 over five years for a subaward from the National Institute on Drug Abuse for "The Impact of Community Infrastructure Reinvestment Programs on Opioid Misuse and Opioid Overdose.
  • Gary Miller, Vice Dean for Research Strategy and Innovation and professor of Environmental Health Sciences was selected for the 2024 Sparks NS Parkinson’s Translational Research Program for his project, “Preventing Dopamine-Induced Neurotoxicity in Parkinson's Disease.” Awardees receive up to $2,000,000 in funding for their projects, as well as mentorship and educational opportunities.
  • Markus Hilpert, Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglou, and Ana Navas-Acien, Environmental Health Sciences Awarded $3,178,833 over four years from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences for "Air Pollution and Cardiovascular Disease in American Indian Communities.
  • "Sandra Albrecht, Epidemiology: $306,121 over five years for a subaward from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases for "National Center for Engagement in Diabetes Equity Research: National CEDER."
  • W. Ian Lipkin and CII received $500,000) for a third round of funding  from  the New York State Biodefense Commercialization Fund for CapSeq: a sensitive tool for rapid differential diagnosis of infectious disease and detection of anti-microbial resistance elements.
  • Rachel Shelton, Sociomedical Sciences: $3,095,521 over five years from the National Cancer Institute for "Strategies for Reaching and Impacting Our Communities Sustainably (NWP-ROCS Program)."
  • Jeanine Genkinger, Epidemiology: $659,367 over five years for a subaward from the National Cancer Institute for "Center for SOcial CApital (SOCA): Promoting Multigenerational Health."
  • Sen Pei, Environmental Health Sciences: $414,659 over two years from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for "Inference of heterogeneous transmission of antimicrobial resistant pathogens in healthcare settings.
  • Julie Herbstman and Amy Margolis, Environmental Health Sciences: $7,646,645 over two years from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development for "Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health in ECHO II: Impact of environmental exposures on children's health and the co-morbidity of asthma and ADHD."
  • Alfred Neugut, Epidemiology: $1,032,911 over two years from Kyowa Kirin for "Columbia Center for Clinical Pharmacoepidemiology, Pharmacovigilance, and Health Outcomes Research."
  • Miriam Rabkin, ICAP: $30,000,000 over five years from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for "Strengthening Regional, National, and Subnational Institutional Capacities to Sustainably Combat HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)."
  • Susan Michaels-Strasser, ICAP: $7,440,000 over five years from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for "Strengthening Scale Up of HIV Prevention, Care and Treatment Programs in South Sudan under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)."
  • Jamie Daw, Health Policy & Management awarded $3,587,634 over five years from the National Institute of Nursing Research for "Integrated Supportive Care Policies to Improve Maternal Health Equity: Evaluating the Multi-level Effects and Implementation of Doula Programs for Medicaid-Eligible Birthing People in New York City."
  • Susan Michaels-Strasser, PhD, ICAP: $1,420,000 over two years from Resolve To Save Lives for "Epidemic Ready Primary Healthcare (ERPHC): Strengthening Service Delivery and Public Health."
  • Jeremy Kane, PhD, Epidemiology: $2,696,906 over three years from the National Institute of Mental Health for "The impact of changes in social determinants of health during the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal study of the Asenze cohort in South Africa."
  • Silvia Martins, MD, PhD, Epidemiology: $4,004,867 over five years from the National Institute on Drug Abuse for "Social safety net programs as interventions to reduce opioid-related harms in reproductive-age women."
  • Ruby Fayorsey, MD, ICAP: $47,000,000 from the U.S. Agency for International Development for "HIV Care and Treatment Activity."
  • Rafal Tokarz, PhD, Center for Infection and Immunity: $2,529,566 over five years from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for "Genetic basis for persistence of Borrelia burgdorferi."
  • Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, ICAP: $60,000,000 over five years from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for "Regional Partnerships to Strengthen National Data Capacities for HIV, TB, and Other Pandemic Preparedness and Response under PEPFAR."
  • Pia Mauro, PhD, Epidemiology: $3,457,257 over five years from the National Institute on Drug Abuse for "Substance use treatment and county incarceration: Reducing inequities in substance use treatment need, availability, use, and outcomes."
  • Wenpin Hou, PhD, Biostatistics: $2,031,090 over five years from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for "Methods for inferring and analyzing gene regulatory networks using single-cell multiomics and spatial genomics data."
  • John Santelli, MD, Population and Family Health: $3,633,393 over five years from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development for "Rakai Orphans in Communities."
  • Parisa Tehranifar, DrPH, Epidemiology: $2,016,928 over three years from the National Cancer Institute for "Advancing breast cancer risk prediction in national cohorts: the role of mammogram-based deep learning."
  • Christine Mauro, PhD, Biostatistics: $399,818 over five years for a subaward from the National Institute on Drug Abuse for "The OUD Cascade of Care and Critical Outcomes: Longitudinal Linkage with Opioid Use."
  • Rafal Tokarz, PhD, Center for Infection and Immunity: $1,284,388 over two years from the Department of Defense for "Direct Detection of Tick-Borne Agents in a Single Point-of-Care Test."
  • Melissa DuPont-Reyes, PhD, Sociomedical Sciences: $472,988 over two years from the National Institute of Mental Health for "Leveraging Latinx Adolescents, Photovoice, and Longitudinal Data to Disentangle the Bidirectional Effects of Social Media and Mental Health."
  • Paris Adkins-Jackson, PhD, Epidemiology: $627,210 over five years from the National Institute on Aging for "The role of adverse community-level policing exposure on disparities in Alzheimer's disease related dementias and deleterious multidimensional aging."
  • Rupak Shivakoti, PhD, Epidemiology: $536,424 over four years for a subaward from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for "Decrease Emerging Resistant Infection through Surveillance and Control In Networks Globally."