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Emory 1% Award

The Emory 1% Awards honors and recognizes faculty who have received study section scores in the top 1 percentile on a grant proposal.

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Awardees

2024

  • Paul Dawson (pediatrics)
    • Hepatoprotective Mechanisms of Systemic Bile Acid Transporter Inhibitors
  • Theresa Gillespie (hematology and medical oncology)
    • Georgia Science Education Initiative NCI YES (GA-YES)
  • Sumin Kang (hematology and medical oncology)
    • Dissecting and Targeting MAST1 Signaling in chemoresistant Cancers
  • Christopher LaRock (microbiology and immunology)
    • GSDMA roles in skin innate immune defense
  • Gregory Melikian (pediatrics)
    • Imaging protease activation and maturation of single HIV-1 particles
  • Lena Ting (biomedical engineering)
    • Context-dependent turning of muscle spindles

2023

  • Lakshmi Dasi (biomedical engineering) 
  • Maya Fayfman (medicine)
  • Randy Hall (pharmacology and chemical biology) 
  • Jie Jiang (cell biology)
  • Hanjoong Jo (biomedical engineering)
  • Sumin Kang (hematology and medical oncology) 
  • Anna Knight (gynecology and obstetrics) 
  • Gregory Lesinski (hematology and medical oncology) 
  • Lefteris Michailidis (pediatrics) 
  • John Oshinski (radiology and imaging sciences) 
  • Alyssa Panitch (biomedical engineering) 
  • Ravi M. Patel (pediatrics)
  • Chrystal Paulos (surgery)
  • Zhaohui Qin (cell biology) 
  • Matt Rowan (cell biology) 

2022

  • Henry Blumberg, MD (medicine)
  • Ann Chahroudi, MD, PhD (pediatrics) 
  • Carlos del Rio, MD (medicine) 
  • Theresa Gillespie, PhD (surgery)
  • Colleen Kelley, MD (medicine) 
  • Steven Liang, PhD (radiology and imaging sciences) 
  • Adam Marcus, PhD (hematology and medical oncology) 
  • Nael McCarty, PhD (pediatrics) 
  • Felipe Quiroz, PhD (biomedical engineering) 
  • Jeff Sands, MD (medicine) 
  • Amit Shah, MD (medicine) 
  • Steven Sloan, MD, PhD (human genetics) 
  • Susan Wall, MD (medicine) 
  • Young-sup Yoon, MD, PhD (medicine)  

2021

  • Christine Dunham, PhD (biochemistry) 
  • Zhiyong Lin, PhD (medicine) 
  • Raymond Lynch, MD (surgery) 
  • Susmita Parashar, MD, MPH (medicine) 
  • Raymond Schinazi, PhD (pediatrics) 
  • Guido Silvestri, MD, PhD (pathology and laboratory medicine) 

2020

  • Jing Chen, PhD (hematology and medical oncology)
  • Paul Doetsch, PhD (biochemistry)
  • Jennifer Felger, PhD (psychiatry and behavioral sciences)
  • Ashwanth Francis, PhD (pediatrics)
  • Holly Gooding, MD (pediatrics)
  • Andrew Miller, MD (psychiatry and behavioral sciences)
  • David Schuster, MD (radiology and imaging sciences)
  • Jennifer Wong, PhD (human genetics)
  • Marianne Yee, MD (pediatrics)
  • Muxiang Zhou, MD (pediatrics)

2019

  • Henry Blumberg, MD (medicine)
  • Anne Fitzpatrick, PhD, RN (pediatrics)
  • Neel Gandhi, MD (medicine)
  • Joe Nocera, PhD (neurology)
  • Michael Woodworth, MD (medicine)
  • Steven Yeh, MD (ophthalmology)

2018

  • Xingming Deng, MD, PhD (radiation oncology)
  • Adriana Galvan, PhD (neurology)
  • Christopher LaRock, PhD (microbiology and immunology)
  • David Myers, PhD (pediatrics)
  • Viranuj Sueblinvong, MD (medicine)

2017

  • I. Raul Badell, MD (surgery)
  • Max Cooper, MD (pathology and laboratory medicine)
  • Shawn Hochman, PhD (physiology)
  • Marina Sorrentino Hernandes, PhD (medicine)
  • Kiyoko Takemiya, MD, PhD (medicine)
  • Wei Zhou, PhD (hematology and medical oncology)
Past Awardees
Awards and Distinctions
  • Faculty Recognitions Week
    • 2024 Clinical Distinctions
    • 2024 Regional, National, and International Awards
    • 2024 Senior Promotions
    • Dean's Teaching Award
    • Distinguished Service Award
    • Emory 1% Award
    • Excellence in Patient Care
    • Excellence in Research Awards
    • Hidden Gems
    • Innovation for Impact Award
    • Innovations in Clinical Care Award
    • Lifetime Service and Leadership Award
    • Mentoring Award
    • MilliPub Club
    • Preceptor of the Year Award
    • Scientific Integrity Award
    • Site-Based Awards
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • Emory at Grady Awards
  • Evangeline T. Papageorge Distinguished Teaching Award
  • National Academy of Medicine
  • National Academy of Sciences
  • SOM Staff Awards