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This is self-indulgent self-aggrandising narcissism at its purest. As if the rest of my site isn't, but I collected digital medals ("digimedals", cf. Special Agent Oso) when it was less uncool to collect them. See also: my CV and my research group's vanity section.

• 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 24, 2023: My image of a lake in the Chilean Andes was promoted to a quality image on Wikimedia Commons.
• February 21, 2023: An article about our NCATS ASPIRE Reduction-to-Practice Challenge grand prize victory was published in JSMBS News.
• November 23, 2022: The astrophotograph of the Jellyfish Nebula was honoured as the International Winner in the 2021 International Wiki Science Competition in the astronomy category. The images of Sharpless 216 (also promoted as a quality image as well as a featured picture) and the Heart nebula (featured picture) were International Runners-Up. This was also reported on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
• October 19, 2022: We were named winners of the NCATS Reduction-to-Practice challenge grand prize (stage 2, milestone 3).
• June 6, 2022. The astrophotograph of the Flying Bat and Squid nebulae Sh2-129/Ou4 widefield (c-shorgb) was promoted to a featured picture on Wikimedia Commons.
• June 3, 2022. The astrophotograph of the Flying Bat and Squid nebulae Sh2-129/Ou4 widefield (c-shorgb) was promoted to a quality image on Wikimedia Commons.
• May 2, 2022: We were named winners of the NCATS ASPIRE Reduction-to-Practice challenge stage 2, milestone 2.
• April 22, 2022: The astrophotograph of sh2-216 was promoted to a featured picture on Wikimedia Commons.
• April 19, 2022: The astrophotograph of sh2-216 was promoted to quality image status on Wikimedia Commons.
• March 31, 2022: The astrophotograph of the Jellyfish Nebula was honoured with the Jury's Prize in the 2021 National Wiki Science competition in the astronomy category and will be selected to represent the US in the International Competition along with three other images that were also selected as finalists (Heart nebula, Sharpless 216, NGC 7822).
• March 24, 2022: An article on the Composer blog about my investing philosophy.
• March 13, 2022: My astrophotograph of the Jellyfish nebula was promoted to a featured picture on Wikimedia Commons.
• February 9, 2022: My astrophotograph of the Heart nebula was promoted to a featured picture highlighting the finest images on Wikipedia.
• January 13, 2022: My astrophotograph of the Heart nebula was promoted to a featured picture on Wikimedia Commons.
• September 29, 2021: We were named winners of the NCATS ASPIRE Reduction-to-Practice challenge stage 2, milestone 1.
• July 1, 2021: The astrophotograph of the Elephant Trunk's nebula was promoted to a quality image on Wikimedia Commons.
• June 13, 2021: The astrophotograph of the Flying Bat and Squid nebulae Sh2-129/Ou4 widefield (c-shorgb) was selected as the TSS APOD posted on this thread.
• May 1, 2021: The astrophotograph of the NGC7822 nebula and open cluster in Cepheus was selected as the TSS APOD posted on this thread.
• April 30, 2021: The astrophotograph of the NGC7822 nebula and open cluster in Cepheus was selected as the Stellar Shot of the Week. (See original write up here.)
• April 23, 2021: We were named winners of the NCATS ASPIRE Reduction-to-Practice challenge stage 1.
• March 19, 2021: The astrophotograph of the Jellyfish nebulae Ced73/Ced74/IC443/IC444/LBN840/LBN841/LBN844/Sh2-248/Sh2-249/SNR G189.0+03.0/VdB75 narrowfield - 37h was selected as the TSS APOD posted on this thread.
• 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.
• October 3, 2020: The astrophotograph of the Squid nebula Ou4 (c-orgb) was selected as the TSS APOD posted on this thread.
• August 12, 2020: The astrophotograph of the Heart (Ced7Cr26/IC1805/LBN654/Mel15/Sh2-190) and Fishead (Ced6/IC1795/LBN645/NGC896) Nebulae (c-sho) was selected as the TSS APOD posted on this thread.
• July 5, 2020: The astrophotograph of the The Wizard Nebula Ced206/Cr452/LBN511/NGC7380?Sh2-142/Sh2-143 (c-sho) was selected as the TSS APOD posted on this thread.
• July 3, 2020: Suny Research Responds Issue 14 listing our COVID-19 research as noteworthy.
• June 21, 2020: The astrophotograph of the Sh2-132 the Lion Nebula in Ha was selected as the TSS APOD posted on this thread.
• June 1, 2020: The astrophotograph of the IC1396 Nebula including the Elephant's Trunk was selected as a national finalist in the 2019 Wiki Science Competition in the United States, to be represented in the International Competition. View further details of the image on AstroBin.
  
• 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: I received 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: I 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: My application to the MacArthur Foundation's 100&Change Competition in 2016 was named a Top 200 Applicant. The application's 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.
• September 27, 2011: My purchase of a Colbert Super PAC T-shirt was revealed juxtaposed to the Stephen and Melinda Gates Foundation.
• July 20, 2010: I won the 2010 NIH Director's Pioneer Award:
  • NIH site.
  • Image of award.
• May 21, 2010: I 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 the Nutritious Rice in the World project in the area of poverty alleviation that I lead.
• October 7, 2008: An automated approach for analysing protein function developed by my group 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 the Nutritious Rice for the World project that I lead, including in:
  • The New York Times
  • Business Week
  • Fortune,
  • CNN Money
  • The Times of India
  • and a variety of other international media outlets
• January 30, 2007: The Washington Research Foundation's 25th annual report showcases our research on therapeutic discovery.
• November 3, 2006: My play review of All in the Timing was plagiarised by the Minnesota Monticello Times.
• October 10, 2006: The paper entitled "Identifying inhibitors of the SARS coronavirus proteinase" by Ekachai Jenwitheesuk and myself published in Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters 13: 3989-3992, 2003 resulted in a Most Cited Paper 2003 - 2006 Award.
• June 27, 2006: StudySphere seleted my primer on the ethics of intellectual property as one of the best educational resources on the Web.
• June 25, 2005: The Seattle Times published a letter I wrote in response to John McKay defending the Patriot Act.
• 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 a letter 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).
• April 5, 2002: The Seattle Times published a letter I wrote about the Israeli-Palestianian conflict, arguing why suicide bombing is a logical strategic decision made during a war.
• January 11, 2001: The Infinite Nietzsche: The Three Metamorphoses was published in The Cosmic Powers Unlimited Fanzine (issue #55).
• October 27, 2001: An interview about Free Music was published in Tinfoil.
• October 4, 2001: The Seattle Times published a letter I wrote in response to Michael Kelly's article attacking pacifists.
• March 1, 2001: An article about the Advanced Technology Initiative under which I was recruited in University Week.
• February 26, 2001: The Bangkok Post published my letter about the presence of the Falungong group in Thailand.
• January 31, 2001: The The Free Music Philosophy was cited at Allsound.org.
• May 18, 2000: The The RIAA vs. Free Music article was duplicated at MusicDish.
• March 1, 2000: Creativity and Ownership: Where is the Balance?, The Future of Music, and The Free Music Philosophy were published in the book Libres Enfants Du Savoir Numérique.
• February 1, 2000: Forked a process representing my life at the University of Washington. (That is, this is the official fork start date for my career as a professor.)
• February 1, 2000: The TWISTED HELICES logo was used by MusicDish in a novel way! Also, the Beam me up, Hilary and the DiY Guide to Making Music articles were duplicated at MusicDish.
• January 29, 2000: The Beam me up, Hilary article was duplicated at mp3.com.
• October 5, 1999: The Webmaster Certification Program at Pennsylvania State University is studying my musings on good and bad design on the web.
• September 1, 1999: An article in The Pitt News mentions my ULC/CARB "religion".
• July 11, 1999: Music Ramblings was given a Top100 Distinctive Music Sites award.
• July 6, 1999: Free Music: Progress and Prospects was published in MusicDish.
• July 5, 1999: The Free Music Philosophy was referenced in Upside Magazine in an article titled Can't Stop the Music.
• June 30, 1999: The Free Music Philosophy was published in MusicDish.
• June 21, 1999: The Future of Music was published in Auricle.
• June 4, 1999: The The Future of Music was published in MusicDish.
• February 10, 1999: The Free Music Philosophy and the The Future of Music articles were referenced in Brett Watson's article Philosophies of Free Software and Intellectual Property.
• January, 1999: The story about a serious car crash I was involved in a long time ago was featured in In Motion magazine.
• December, 1999: The Free Music Philosophy was referenced in Feyo Kolff's law school thesis titled The Harmonic Highway.
• December 18, 1998: The Free Music Philosophy was referenced in the New York Times.
• December 8, 1998: The future of music article was published on mp3.com.
• December 2, 1998: The future of music article was published in the Shareware Music Machine News.
• August 6, 1998: MPEG3.com sitelist ranking (three stars out of five) for the Free Music Philosophy.
• July 23, 1998: Links2Go Key Resource award in the Pink Floyd topic.
  
• July 18, 1998: The Free Music Philosophy was referenced in the print version of Billboard Magazine.
• June 12, 1998: The Free Music Philosophy was referenced in Wired News and Fox News with regards to the OnLine Guitar Archive (OLGA) being shut down.
• April 20, 1998: Extra Crispy Award.
  
• April 10, 1998: A reference to the Free Music Philosophy on mp3.com.
• March 8, 1998: The Teddy Bair Award.
  
• March 8, 1998: The Critical Mass Award.
  
• March 8, 1998: The Stines Award.
  
• March 8, 1998: A + Web Design Approved Award.
  
• October 7, 1997: The Bunny Award for the best web page.
  
• September 25, 1997: The Free Music Philosophy was a Surfer's Pick in Yahoo!.
• July 11, 1997: The Free Music Philosophy was featured in an article in Forbes online.
• June 30, 1997: A Touch of Magick award.
• June 23, 1997: JAUP award.
  
• June 20, 1997: Lycos Top 5% listing for the The Cheesy Primus Page.
  
• June 10, 1997: The Free Music Philosophy was featured in an article in Wired News.
• June 5, 1997: The First Annual Montgomery Burns Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence.
  
• May 27, 1997: Webmeister award.
  
• May 20, 1997: Gee! award.
  
• April 15, 1997: First Internet Knight in The Internet Honours!
  
• March 26, 1997: MusicSearch Site of the Day.
• March 18, 1997: The Net's Best Bets award.
• January 1, 1997: A short excerpt about the Free Music Philosophy was featured in the January 1997 GNU's Bulletin.
• November 10, 1996: The Cheesy Primus page was referenced in an article titled Chattering Class in The Washington Post.
• October 13, 1996: The newsgroup alt.fan.ram-samudrala with the topic "The War Against Intellectual Property" was created by a Matthew H. Fields (note that this was created as a response against my views on intellectual property (in a humourous way to get rid of me)).
• Sometime, 1996: Internet Success Top 100 award (in the entertainment category) for my home page.
• Sometime, 1996: GameSpot HotSpot award for my essay on Time Travel.
• June 30, 1996: Personal Home Page Award for the week of June 30, 1996.
• Sometime, 1996: My home page and the Cheesy Primus page are rated among the top 5% of all sites on the Internet by Point Survey. You can read the reviews by clicking here and here. The page also appears in their book containing the top 1000 sites on the Web.
  
• November 7, 1995: The Cheesy Primus page was Rock Site of the Day.
• October, 1995: May 14, 1995: The Free Music Philosophy was referenced in an article titled Pirates on the Internet in the October 1995 issue of Musicians' Magazine.
• May 14, 1995: The Free Music Philosophy was referenced in an article titled Music wants to be free on the cyberspace frontier in the San Diego Union-Tribune.
• April 28, 1995: My Eagles Hell Freezes Over concert review was referenced in an article titled The Eagles are landing at Sandstone in the Music section of the Kansas City Star.
• November 4, 1994: The Cheesy Primus page was voted Best WWW Band Page in a poll that was initially part of the Ultimate Band List when it was first created.
• November 4, 1994: Science magazine 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).