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Awards
Recent Awards to Surgery Research Faculty:
Award: 2026 UR-CTSI Translational Science Scholar Award
Title: A Novel and Dynamic Cardiopulmonary Assessment for Preoperative Evaluation in Lung Cancer
PI: Dr. Paul Feingold
Description:
This collaborative study with the Department of Pulmonology aims to improve our understanding of how patients will breathe and feel after lung surgery. We propose using a simple walking test combined with heart rate and breathing measurements, rather than relying only on traditional pulmonary function testing. We hope this project will provide more sensitive risk stratification for our surgical patients and also demonstrate the functional advantage of sublobar resections (such as wedge or segmentectomy) over lobectomies.
Award: 2026-2028 American College of Surgeons Faculty Research Fellowship
Title: Investigating the Mechanism of Epinephrine-Induced Dermal Fibroblast Progenitor Cell Depletion and Delayed Wound Healing
PI: Dr. Alessandra Moore
Description:
This proposal studies delayed and disordered wound healing, which remains a major source of morbidity for surgical patients. The proposal addresses a major knowledge gap by uncovering how chronic stress—specifically mediated by epinephrine—impairs healing by affecting dermal fibroblast progenitor cells (DFPs), which are essential for skin regeneration. Dr. Moore's research findings reveal a mechanistic link between stress hormone exposure and impaired surgical wound healing and will guide the development of targeted interventions to improve outcomes for patients experiencing unexpected, stress‑related delays in healing and recovery.
Award: Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP) 2025 Breast Cancer Research Program (BCRP) Clinical Research Extension Award
Title: Long-Term Follow-Up of the Comparison of an Operation to Monitoring, With Option of Endocrine Therapy (COMET) Study
PI: Dr. Anna Weiss (Partnering PI through Alliance NCTN Foundation)
Description:
The Principal Investigators (Dr. Anna Weiss from the University of Rochester and Dr. Shelley Hwang from Duke University) of this application propose to determine whether active monitoring (AM) is noninferior to guideline concordant care (GCC) for low-risk ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) with long-term follow-up. The project’s specific aims are (1) to determine with long-term follow-up whether the ipsilateral invasive cancer rate for AM is noninferior to that for GCC, (2) to build and validate mammogram-based qualitative and machine learning models for invasive progression using baseline and longitudinal breast imaging data, and (3) to profile genome-wide methylation status in DCIS and correlate with outcome to construct a methylation-based prediction model for long-term risk of developing invasive breast cancer.