2023 ACG Junior Faculty Development Grant
The ACG Junior Faculty Development Award is a three-year award, newly increased to $450,000, designed to support a junior faculty member of outstanding promise to establish an independent, productive career in gastroenterology or hepatology. This award of $150,000 per year for each of three years provides salary support for protected time to young investigators at critical points in their career development.
NYU Langone School of Medicine
Optimizing Preoperative Care for Older Adults with IBD
University of California, San Francisco
Predictors and Biomarkers of Immune-Related Toxicities and of Treatment Response to Immunotherapy in Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Kira Newman, MD, PhD
University of Michigan
Clostridioides difficile Susceptibility in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Baylor College of Medicine
A Health Informatics Approach to Reduce Missed Opportunities for Barrett’s Esophagus Screening
2023 ACG Health Equity Research Award
The Health Equity Research Award is a two-year award with funding up to $75,000 ($50,000 year-one, $25,000 year-two based on progress) to support actionable science that will translate to reducing health and/or healthcare disparities, thereby promoting health equity.
Massachusetts General Hospital
Improving Digestive Healthcare in Sexual and Gender Minority Communities
2023 ACG Clinical Research Awards
Each year, the Institute offers Clinical Research Awards, in the amount of $50,000 for original clinical research. In 2023, 4 investigators were funded.
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Epidemiology and Gut-Skin Immune Pathogenesis of the Association Between Crohn’s Disease and Hidradenitis Suppurativa
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Incomplete Polyp Resection during Colonoscopy: Development and Testing of a New Colonoscopy Quality Metric
Virginia Commonwealth University
Serial Multi-Omic Analysis After Equi-Caloric Vegetarian, Vegan, and Non-Vegetarian Meals in Cirrhosis and Impact on Hyperammonemia
Mayo Clinic Jacksonville
Effectiveness and Safety of Virtual Reality for the Treatment of Functional Dyspepsia
*ACG/BMS Clinical Research Award
Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) has provided unrestricted support to the ACG Institute for Clinical Research and Education. In recognition, the ACG/BMS Clinical Research Award is designated after the ACG Research Committee has made its grant decisions and the awardees have accepted.
2023 ACG Clinical Research Award Pilot Grant Recipients
Each year, the Institute offers Clinical Research Pilot Awards, in the amount of $15,000 for original clinical research. In 2023, 4 investigators were funded.
University of Michigan
Pilot Study to Explore Microbiome Changes with Lactulose in Cirrhosis
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Understanding Gastrointestinal Alpha-gal Syndrome
Children’s National Medical Center
Investigating Microbiome and Metabolome Changes with Fecal Microbiota Transplantation in Chronic Granulomatous Disease-Associated Colitis
Yale University
Biomarkers for the Diagnosis and Prognosis of AKI in Patients with Cirrhosis
2023 Medical Resident Clinical Research Award
The ACG Medical Resident Clinical Research Award is a one-year award in the amount of $10,000 for original clinical research. For 2023, 5 investigators were funded. This award separately supports travel to the ACG Annual Scientific Meeting.
Duke University Medical Center
Interval Colonoscopy Screening for the Detection of Dysplasia in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
University of Miami
Utilizing Patient Navigation and Education to Improve Disparities in Transplant for Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Boston Medical Center Corporation
Clinico-Pathological Analysis of Rectal Neuroendocrine Tumors
University of California San Francisco
Effects of Ustekinumab on PSC Outcomes among Patients with Moderate to Severe IBD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Who, What, and When? A Retrospective Evaluation of Palliative, Supportive, and End of Life Care for People with Liver Disease
2023 Medical Student Research Award
The ACG Medical Student Research Award is an award for first, second, or third-year medical students, of up to $5,000 for a 6-10 week summer research project in gastroenterology or hepatology. For 2023, 3 medical students were funded. This award separately supports travel to the ACG Annual Scientific Meeting.
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Identification of Epigenetic Factors that Protect against Crohn’s Disease Development in those at High Genetic Risk for Disease
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
SOCCER: Study Of forCeps Cannulation during ERcp
The Hospital for Sick Children / University of Toronto
Understanding Multimorbidity in the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Population with Machine Learning