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Three Studies by LDI Senior Fellows Win Clinical Research Forum Awards
Chen and Roberts in Top 10, Groeneveld a Top 10 Finalist
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Two studies by LDI Senior Fellows Yong Chen, PhD, and Eric T. Roberts, PhD, are among the 2026 Top 10 Clinical Research Achievement Awards announced by the Clinical Research Forum. A third LDI Senior Fellow, Peter W. Groeneveld, MD, MS, is among 10 additional studies honored as finalists.
The Clinical Research Forum was established in 1996 to facilitate discussions among senior clinical research leaders from leading academic health and science systems about the unique challenges facing clinical research. Its awards focus largely on work funded by the National Institutes of Health Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) Program.
“Innovation and Novelty”
The Forum’s announcement said the 2026 study award winners “were selected based on the degree of innovation and novelty involved in the advancement of science; contribution to the understanding of human disease and/or physiology; and potential impact upon the diagnosis, prevention, and/or treatment of disease.”
The cited study by Chen, a Professor of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics at Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine, was “Long COVID Associated with SARS-CoV-2 Reinfection Among Children and Adolescents in the Omicron Era (RECOVER-EHR).” The honored work of Roberts, an Associate Professor of General Internal Medicine at the Perelman School, was “Loss of Subsidized Drug Coverage and Mortality Among Medicare Beneficiaries.”
The finalist study, “Impact of the MISSION Act on Quality and Outcomes of Interventional Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery Among Veterans,” was by Groeneveld, a Professor of Medicine at the Perelman School and Co-Director of the Center for Health Care Evaluation, Research, and Promotion at Philadelphia’s Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center.
Additional Honors for Penn Medicine
In addition to these three, three more Perelman School of Medicine faculty members—Angela DeMichele, MD, MSCE; Lewis Chodosh, MD, PhD; and Rebecca Ahrens-Nicklas, MD, PhD—were Top 10 winners, and two other Perelman faculty members—Peter A. Merkel, MD, MPH, and Jakub Svoboda, MD—were finalists.
The Forum’s announcement went on to note that the honored studies “exemplify major advances resulting from the nation’s investment in research to benefit the health and welfare of its citizens. They reflect the influential work being conducted by investigators at nearly 60 research institutions and hospitals across the United States and at partner institutions from around the world.”
The awards will be presented May 11 at the Top 10 Clinical Research Achievement Awards in Washington, D.C. At that event, one of the Top 10 studies will be singled out to receive the Herbert Pardes MD Clinical Research Excellence Award, named in memory of Clinical Research Forum board member Herbert Pardes for his profound impact on clinical research and academic medicine. In addition, Distinguished Clinical Research Achievement Awards will be presented to two other Top 10 studies.
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