PROVIDENCE, R.I. – November 7, 2025 – Advance RI-CTR, the leading collaborative for clinical and translational research in Rhode Island, today announced that Dr. Chathuraka Jayasuriya, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Orthopaedics at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and Rhode Island Hospital, is the recipient of the inaugural Award for Clinical and Translational Research Excellence.

This special opportunity award has been created in honor of the 10-year anniversary of Advance RI-CTR and to celebrate our collective Decade of Discovery. We are pleased to announce that we will be awarding $10,000 to an early career investigator who embodies clinical and translational research excellence in the state of Rhode Island.

In year 10 of our program, The Survey, Qualitative and Applied Data (SQuAD) Research Core will play an integral role in Advance RI-CTR’s consultation services, with Drs. Clark and Dunsiger serving as co-Leads of Advance RI-CTR’s Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design (BERD) Core.

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