NCI R50 Research Specialist Award Recipients – Clinician Scientists

The Research Specialist Award supports exceptional clinician scientists who provide leadership in the development of national clinical trials, service to the NCI clinical trials networks, and play key roles in clinical trials infrastructure within their institutions.

55 grants have been awarded over three fiscal years (FY).

FY2025 Awards
FY2024 Awards
FY2023 Awards

FY2025

Principal Investigator	Institution	NIH Reporter
Raid Aljumaily, M.D.	University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center	View Project(s)
Naomi Haas, M.D.	University of Pennsylvania	View Project(s)
Boyu Hu, M.D.	University of Utah	View Project(s)
Theodore Laetsch, M.D.	The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia	View Project(s)
Andrew Lassman, M.D.	Columbia University Health Sciences	View Project(s)
Tara Lin, M.D.	University of Kansas Medical Center	View Project(s)
Michael Lowe, M.D.	Emory University	View Project(s)
Peter Martin, M.D.	Weill Medical College of Cornell University	View Project(s)
Loren Mell, M.D.	University of California, San Diego	View Project(s)
Mark Mishra, M.D.	University of Maryland, Baltimore	View Project(s)
Lauren Nye, M.D.	University of Kansas Medical Center	View Project(s)
Kim Reiss Binder, M.D.	University of Pennsylvania	View Project(s)
Eric Schafer, M.D.	Baylor College of Medicine	View Project(s)
Eric Sherman, M.D.	Sloan Kettering Institute for Cancer Research	View Project(s)
Rachna Shroff, M.D.	University of Arizona	View Project(s)
Kelly Stratton, M.D.	University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center	View Project(s)
Marie Wood, M.D.	University of Colorado Denver	View Project(s)

FY2024

Principal Investigator	Institution	NIH Reporter
Floor Backes, M.D.	Ohio State University	View Project(s)
Ajay Bansal, M.D.	University of Kansas Medical Center	View Project(s)
Joaquina Baranda, M.D.	University of Kansas Medical Center	View Project(s)
Sharon Castellino, M.D.	Emory University	View Project(s)
Akhil Chawla, M.D.	Northwestern University at Chicago	View Project(s)
Elie Dib, M.D.	Saint Joseph Mercy Health System	View Project(s)
Linda Duska, M.D.	University of Virginia	View Project(s)
Cathy Eng, M.D.	Vanderbilt University Medical Center	View Project(s)
Alex Herrera, M.D.	Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope	View Project(s)
Samuel Klempner, M.D.	Massachusetts General Hospital	View Project(s)
Van Morris, M.D.	University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center	View Project(s)
Maureen O'Brien, M.D.	University of Colorado Denver	View Project(s)
Ciara O'Sullivan, M.D.	Mayo Clinic Rochester	View Project(s)
Sameer Parikh, M.B.B.S.	Mayo Clinic Rochester	View Project(s)
Heather Symons, M.D.	Johns Hopkins University	View Project(s)
Scott Tagawa, M.D.	Weill Medical College of Cornell University	View Project(s)
Jason Zell, D.O.	University of California, Irvine	View Project(s)

FY2023

Principal Investigator	Institution	NIH Reporter
Jonathon Cohen, M.D.	Emory University	View Project(s)
Stephen Chun, M.D.	University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center	View Project(s)
Jeffrey Dome, M.D., Ph.D.	Children's Research Institute	View Project(s)
Britt Erickson, M.D.	University of Minnesota	View Project(s)
Jennifer Foster, M.D.	Baylor College of Medicine	View Project(s)
Stephanie Gaillard, M.D., Ph.D.	Johns Hopkins University	View Project(s)
Thomas George, M.D.	University of Florida	View Project(s)
Karyn Goodman, M.D.	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	View Project(s)
Mehdi Hamadani, M.D.	Medical College of Wisconsin	View Project(s)
Nobuko Hijiya, M.D.	Columbia University Health Sciences	View Project(s)
Salma Jabbour, M.D.	Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences	View Project(s)
Brian Jonas, M.D., Ph.D.	University of California at Davis	View Project(s)
Michelle Kim, M.D.	University of Michigan at Ann Arbor	View Project(s)
Sarah Leary, M.D.	Seattle Children's Hospital	View Project(s)
Jyoti Mayadev, M.D.	University of California, San Diego	View Project(s)
Janice Mehnert, M.D.	New York University School of Medicine	View Project(s)
Brian Shuch, M.D.	University of California Los Angeles	View Project(s)
Michael Soulen, M.D.	University of Pennsylvania	View Project(s)
Deborah Stephens, D.O.	University of North Carolina Chapel Hill	View Project(s)
Geoffrey Uy, M.D.	Washington University	View Project(s)
Nina Wagner-Johnston, M.D.	Johns Hopkins University	View Project(s)