AGA is proud to share the 71 recipients selected to receive research funding through our annual AGA Research Foundation Awards Program. The program serves as a catalyst for discovery and career growth among the most promising researchers in gastroenterology and hepatology.
RESEARCH SCHOLAR AWARDS
AGA RESEARCH SCHOLAR AWARD
- Alexander Nguyen, MD, PhD, The Regent of the University of California, Los Angeles
- Jeffrey W. Patterson-Fortin, MD, PhD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
- Ken Y. Hui, MD, PhD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
AGA-GASTRIC CANCER FOUNDATION BEN FEINSTEIN MEMORAL RESEARCH SCHOLAR AWARD IN GASTRIC CANCER
- Martina Molgora, PhD, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
AGA-TAKEDA PHARMACEUTICALS RESEARCH SCHOLAR AWARD IN INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE
- Brooke R. Druliner, PhD, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
SPECIALTY AWARDS
AGA-CAROLINE CRAIG AUGUSTYN & DAMIAN AUGUSTYN AWARD IN DIGESTIVE CANCER
- Simon Schwörer, PhD, University of Chicago, Illinois
AGA-R. ROBERT & SALLY FUNDERBURG RESEARCH AWARD IN GASTRIC CANCER
- Bryson W. Katona, MD, PhD, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia
AGA-BRISTOL MYERS SQUIBB FELLOWSHIP-TO-FACULTY TRANSITION AWARD
- Siyan Cao, MD, PhD, Washington University in St. Louis
- Amit Ringel, MD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
PILOT AWARDS
AGA PILOT RESEARCH AWARD IN DIGESTIVE DISEASE HEALTH DISPARITIES
- Sharad Wadhwani, MD, MPH, University of California, San Francisco
AGA PILOT RESEARCH AWARD IN HEALTH DISPARITIES
- Enrique Soto Pérez de Celis, MD, PhD, MS, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán
AGA PILOT RESEARCH AWARD
- Diana L. Snyder, MD, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
- Michael Li, MD, MPH, University of California, San Francisco
- Patricia Bloom, MD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- Edward Barnes, MD, MPH, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill
AGA-AMGEN PILOT RESEARCH AWARD IN DIGESTIVE DISEASE HEALTH DISPARITIES
- Laura Targownik, MD, MSHS, University of Toronto/Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH AWARDS
AGA-AMAN ARMAAN AHMED FAMILY SUMMER UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH AWARD
- Gwyneth Garramone, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California
- Ella McLaren, University of California, San Diego
- Nathan Moy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
- Hussein Elfayoumy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
- Isabelle Garcia-Fischer, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts
- Lidia Appell, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
- Katherine Burkman, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
- Alexa Boylan, Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia
AGA-DR. HARVEY YOUNG EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION’S YOUNG GUTS SCHOLAR PROGRAM
- Lucy Zhao, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Cambridge
- Andrew Tran, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
- Sohaib Hassan, Rutgers University – Verzi Lab, New Brunswick, New Jersey
- Varun Ponnusamy, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor
- Daniella Montalvo, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida
- Sara Chough, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York
ABSTRACT AWARDS
FELLOW ABSTRACT AWARDS
- David Flores Marin, MD, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
- Jesse Platt, MD, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
- Devika Gandhi, MD, Loma Linda University, California
- Amanda Krause, MD, University of California, San Diego
- Cynthia Tsay, MD, Mphil, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland
- Suha Abushamma, MD, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Ohio
- Obaidul Islam, PhD, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Floria
- Sakteesh Gurunathan, MD, New York University School of Medicine, New York
- Aaron Yeoh, MD, Stanford Hospital & Clinics, California
- Yang Xiao, PhD, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
- Jacques Gonzales, PhD, MS, Michigan State University, East Lansing
- Kai Wang, MD, PhD, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Hoyeol Kim, PhD, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, New York, New York
- Babajide Ojo, PhD, MS, Stanford University, California
AGA FELLOW ABSTRACT OF THE YEAR AWARD
- Stefania Tocci, PhD, MS, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
STUDENT ABSTRACT AWARDS
- Pritha Chatterjee, MS, University of California, Riverside
- Ela Contreras Panta, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
- Mihir Shah, MD, MBBS, John H. Stroger Hospital of Cook County, Chicago, Illinois
- Yuhan Fu, DO, Metrohealth Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio
- Raissa Nana Sede Mbakop, MD, Piedmont Athens Regional Medical Center, Athens, Georgia
- Eleazar Montalvan-Sanchez, MD, Indiana University School of Medicine, Bloomington
- Sarang Gupta, MD, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Ontario
- Daniel Kim, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Hannah Hrncir, Emory University, Decatur, Georgia
- Zarwa Saqib, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
- Ying Zhu, MD, PhD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- Lizeth Cifuentes, MD, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pennsylvania
- Sharvani Dhandibhotla, MBBS, MS, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
- Lauren Lynch, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
AGA STUDENT ABSTRACT OF THE YEAR AWARD
- Gabrielle Waclawik, MD, MPH, University of Wisconsin, Madison
AGA ABSTRACT AWARD FOR HEALTH DISPARITIES RESEARCH
- Soyoun Min, PhD, Lerner Research Institute (fellow), Cleveland, Ohio
- Xiaobei Zhang, PhD , David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles (fellow)
- Matthew Zhao, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles (student)
- Hannah Fiske, MD, Brown University/Rhode Island Hospital (student), Providence
AGA-APFED ABSTRACT AWARD IN EOSINOPHILIC GI DISEASES
- Matthew Buendia, MD, Vanderbilt University Medical Center – Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital, Nashville, Tennessee
- Alexandra L. Strauss, MD, University of Pennsylvania Health System, Philadelphia
- Mira Yang, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois
AGA-MOTI L. & KAMLA RUSTGI INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL AWARD
- Aviv Pudipeddi, MBBS, Concord Repatriation General Hospital, Sydney, Australia
- Dianqin Sun, MBBS, Mmed, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands
