Faculty Researcher Award

Faculty Researcher Award

Purpose: This award acknowledges and celebrates a faculty member recognized for their clinical and/or bench research, which contributes to the advancement of medicine, demonstrates collaboration and mentoring of learners (medical students, residents/fellows, and/or graduate learners) and faculty, and enhances the research reputation of the UMKC School of Medicine.

Award Description

The faculty recipient should be an individual who has:
• Made significant contributions to medical literature through research, including peer-reviewed publications and presentations
• Obtained grant funding
• Sustained record of collaborating and mentoring learners and faculty in research

Eligibility

• Must be a tenure-track or non-tenure-track faculty member in the UMKC School of Medicine for a minimum of five years
• Must have received grant funding as a principal investigator or co-principal investigator, OR
• Consistently contributed as co-investigator on funded research

Geographic Scope

UMKC School of Medicine faculty only

Who Can Nominate

• UMKC staff, faculty, students, residents/fellows, administrators, clinical affiliates, or community members
• Self-nominations are acceptable

Prior Winners

• 2025 – Nihar R. Nayak, DVM, Ph.D.
• 2024 – Jennifer Schuster, M.D.
• 2023 – Stephen D. Simon, Ph.D.
• 2022 – Peter Koulen, Ph.D., FARVO
• 2021 – John Spertus, M.D., M.P.H.
• 2020 – John Q. Wang, Ph.D.