Two Buffalo State College Researchers Receive SUNY Chancellor's Awards
Buffalo State College researchers Drs. Subodh Kumar and Harish Sikka received Chancellor's Research Recognition Awards from the State University of New York for their work at the Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry Laboratory at the Great Lakes Center for Environmental Research and Education. SUNY Chancellor Robert King honored 38 of New York's most important and innovative scientists at a dinner in Albany on Oct.24.
"These award-winning faculty members of the State University of New York are working to make scientific breakthroughs that will prevent or heal medical disorders and ailments, protect the environment, create new pharmaceuticals and help us understand the origins of the universe," said Chancellor King.
Kumar is the senior scientist of the Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry Laboratory at Buffalo State College's Great Lakes Center and an adjunct research professor at Buffalo State College. Since joining the SUNY faculty in 1983, he has been awarded research grants totaling more then $8 million from various federal, state and private agencies, primarily the National Institutes of Health and the Environmental Protection Agency. His research has resulted in one patent and more than 85 publications in leading peer-reviewed journals in the field of chemistry and health sciences. He was recently invited to serve on several panels of the National Institutes of Health to review research proposals submitted to the agency in the area of cancer research.
Sikka is the research director of the Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry Laboratory of the Great Lakes Center at Buffalo State College. His accomplishments in environmental toxicology have been acknowledged both nationally and internationally. His current research focuses on understanding how chemical carcinogens induce mutagenesis and carcinogenesis. He has been awarded grants totaling more than $8 million from federal, state, and private agencies since he came to Buffalo State College in 1982 and his research has resulted in more then 80 publications in leading peer-reviewed journals in his field. In 2000, he was awarded the Buffalo State College President's Award for Research, Scholarship and Creativity.
"These award-winning faculty members of the State University of New York are working to make scientific breakthroughs that will prevent or heal medical disorders and ailments, protect the environment, create new pharmaceuticals and help us understand the origins of the universe," said Chancellor King.
Kumar is the senior scientist of the Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry Laboratory at Buffalo State College's Great Lakes Center and an adjunct research professor at Buffalo State College. Since joining the SUNY faculty in 1983, he has been awarded research grants totaling more then $8 million from various federal, state and private agencies, primarily the National Institutes of Health and the Environmental Protection Agency. His research has resulted in one patent and more than 85 publications in leading peer-reviewed journals in the field of chemistry and health sciences. He was recently invited to serve on several panels of the National Institutes of Health to review research proposals submitted to the agency in the area of cancer research.
Sikka is the research director of the Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry Laboratory of the Great Lakes Center at Buffalo State College. His accomplishments in environmental toxicology have been acknowledged both nationally and internationally. His current research focuses on understanding how chemical carcinogens induce mutagenesis and carcinogenesis. He has been awarded grants totaling more than $8 million from federal, state, and private agencies since he came to Buffalo State College in 1982 and his research has resulted in more then 80 publications in leading peer-reviewed journals in his field. In 2000, he was awarded the Buffalo State College President's Award for Research, Scholarship and Creativity.
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