Press/media

• ARCHIVED: Press/media and video section of the Nutritious Rice for the World project.

• April 17, 2024: The 2024 CTSI Annual Forum showcased our work on the multiscale analysis and validation of effective drug combinations targeting driver KRAS mutations in non-small cell lung cancer which was named finalist for a Buffalo Translational Consortium Clinical Research Achievement Award.
• April 4, 2023: An article about various grants we received in 2022 totalling $3-4 million was published in JSMBS News.
• February 21, 2023: An article about our NCATS ASPIRE Reduction-to-Practice Challenge grand prize victory was published in JSMBS News.
• October 19, 2022: We were named winners of the NCATS Reduction-to-Practice challenge grand prize (stage 2, milestone 3).
• May 2, 2022: We were named winners of the NCATS ASPIRE Reduction-to-Practice challenge stage 2, milestone 2.
• September 29, 2021: We were named winners of the NCATS ASPIRE Reduction-to-Practice challenge stage 2, milestone 1.
• April 23, 2021: We were named winners of the NCATS ASPIRE Reduction-to-Practice challenge stage 1.
• December 23, 2020: Shotgun Drug Repurposing Aids Fight Against COVID-19, University at Buffalo School of Medicine Insight newsletter. This is one of several articles that have been written about our work on COVID-19 but it's really awesome work being done by my group, particular Will Mangione and Zack Falls that I want to highlight here (also it's a nice picture of the three of us, which I will also post on our group pictures page.
• December 16, 2020: Translational Spotlight Volume 10, Issue 24 highlighting the below collaboration with Onai, Inc. under faculty headlines.
• December 3, 2020: Artificial Intelligence Collaboration Seeking To Hasten COVID-19 Insights Scienmag Science Magazine highlighted a NSF grant and collaboration with Onai, Inc. and Gaurav Chopra to use our CANDO drug discovery repurposing and EHR records to find therapies against COVID-19.
• July 3, 2020: Suny Research Responds Issue 14 listing our COVID-19 research as noteworthy.
• April 1, 2020: CTSI Translational Studies Pilot which was led by Zack Falls and Sarah Mullin along with myself and Peter Elkin.
• October 31, 2019: Ram Samudrala was given an University at Buffalo Exceptional Scholar - Sustained Achievement Award:
  • UB Celebration of Academic Excellence
  • UB MD news
  • Images of award, receipt, and vignette.
• October 28, 2019: Ram Samudrala was named an NCATS ASPIRE Design Challenge Award winner:
  • NIH site.
  • UB JSMBS news article.
  • UB news article.
  • Niagara Frontier Publications.
  • Images of award and receipt.
• April 15, 2017: Ram Samudrala's application to the MacArthur Foundation's 100&Change Competition in 2016 was named a Top 200 Applicant. The application's score was one standard deviation greater (better) than the median score of the top 200 applicants.
  • Top 200 badge
• May 4, 2013: A blog missive on my CANDO talk was published by Jen Davis.
• July 20, 2010: Ram Samudrala won the 2010 NIH Director's Pioneer Award:
  • NIH site.
  • Image of award.
• May 21, 2010: Ram Samudrala won the 2010 Undergraduate Research Mentor Award (snaphot of web page with mentee comment).
• November 24, 2009: IBM/World Community Grid won the 2009 Asian Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Award for our Nutritious Rice in the World project in the area of poverty alleviation.
• October 7, 2008: Our automated approach for analysing protein function is highlighted by the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR). See PLoS Computational Biology 4(9): e1000181 to read the paper.
• July 14, 2008: More than 200 media articles have been written about our Nutritious Rice for the World project, including in the New York Times Business Week, Fortune, CNN Money, The Times of India, and also a variety of other international media outlets.
• January 30, 2007: The Washington Research Foundation's 25th annual report showcases my work on therapeutic discovery.
• October 10, 2006: The paper entitled "Identifying inhibitors of the SARS coronavirus proteinase" by Ekachai Jenwitheesuk and Ram Samudrala published in Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters 13: 3989-3992, 2003 resulted in a Most Cited Paper 2003 - 2006 Award.
• July 21, 2006: An article in the Journal of Proteome Research highlights the Bioverse Integrator in their TOOLbox section.
• February 10, 2005: An article about my New Investigator Science in Medicine Lecture was published in University Week.
• December 25, 2004: The Seattle Times published an article I wrote about biological evolution being a fact and not a theory (i.e., the process of evolution is different from theories explaining how evolution occurs).
• November 1, 2004: An article on systems biology in Northwest Science and Technology Autumn 2004 issue featured our research.
• October 9, 2003: The University of Washington's The Daily and a variety of other media outlets have written something about my TR100 (world's top young innovators) selection by MIT Technology Review.
• July 7, 2003: The New York Times published a letter I wrote about genetic engineering, stating my belief that directed genetic engineering (the ability to self-evolve) is a natural consequence of evolution (i.e., if the ability to self-evolve arises, it will be selectively advantageous).
• March 3, 2001: An article about the Advanced Technology Initiative under which I was recruited was published in University Week.
• November 4, 1994: Science did a cool feature on the Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology (CARB) where I did my graduate work which tells people about the research I'm doing (p863).