Academy for Excellence in Team Science
Inductees
2022
This multidisciplinary team of researchers, health professionals, and educators effectively developed and led technological and societal breakthroughs in our fight against chronic wasting disease and other neurodegenerative diseases at the intersection of human, animal, and environmental health.
Lauren Bernstein, MVB, MPH , Assistant Professor, Community Medicine, Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences
David Fulton, PhD , Professor and Assistant Unit Leader, Wildlife - Minnesota Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit
Diana Karwan, PhD, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Water Resources Science
Adam Landon, PhD , Adjunct Assistant Professor, College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences
Peter Larsen, PhD , Assistant Professor, Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
Roxanne Larsen, PhD , Associate Professor, College of Veterinary Medicine
Sang-Hyun Oh, PhD , Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Sanford P. Bordeau Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Jonathan Oliver, PhD , Assistant Professor, Division of Environmental Health Sciences
Marc Schwabenlander, MPH , Associate Director, Minnesota Center for Prion Research and Outreach
Tiffany Wolf, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Veterinary Population Medicine
Jason Bartz, PhD , Professor and Chair of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Creighton University
2020
Integrating research with clinical practice, this team of three physician-scientists pioneered the use of total pancreatectomy with islet autotransplantation as a treatment for severe chronic pancreatitis in children.
Melena Bellin, MD , Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Srinath Chinnakotla, MD , Professor, Department of Surgery; Surgical Director, Liver Transplantation, Department of Surgery ; Executive Medical Director, Pediatric Abdominal Transplantation, Department of Surgery
Bernhard Hering MD , Executive Director, Schulze Diabetes Institute; Professor, Department of Surgery
Sarah Jane Schwarzenberg, MD , Professor, Department of Pediatrics; Division Director, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition; Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs, Department of Pediatrics; Co-Director, Cystic Fibrosis Center
2019
This team used its interdisciplinary expertise to greatly influence tobacco science and policy in the US and worldwide.
Stephen Hecht, PhD , Wallin Land Grant Professor of Cancer Prevention, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
Dorothy Hatsukami, PhD , Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Sharon Murphy, PhD , Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics
Anne Joseph, MD, MPH , Wexler Professor of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine
This team used its interdisciplinary expertise to make substantive contributions on the impact of diabetes and obesity on the brain.
Elizabeth Seaquist, MD , Professor of Medicine, Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism
Gülin Öz, PhD , Professor, Department of Radiology, Center for Magnetic Resonance Research
Amir Moheet, MBBS , Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism
Silvia Mangia, PhD , Associate Professor, Department of Radiology
Lynn Eberly, PhD , Professor, Division of Biostatistics
Lisa Coles, MS, PhD , Associate Director of Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacometrics, Center for Orphan Drug Research