Noyes Receives National Organization’s Team Science Award

Katia Noyes, PhD, team science core director in the University at Buffalo’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI), has received the 2023 Team Science Award from the Association for Clinical and Translational Science. Noyes’ research has repeatedly demonstrated that team-based approaches in research and care delivery significantly outperform services provided by individuals working alone.

ACTS is a nonprofit membership association of translational scientists from the nation’s leading academic medical centers. Its annual Translational Science Awards recognizes investigators for their outstanding contributions to the clinical research and translational science field. The ACTS Team Science Award acknowledges and catalyzes the growing importance of interdisciplinary teams to the translation of research discoveries into clinical applications and eventually widespread clinical practice.

Noyes was recently named SPHHP’s associate dean for translational and team science. She is also director of the Division of Health Services Policy and Practice; director, MPH concentration in health services administration; and professor, Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health.

Noyes’ research topics over the past 20 years include health outcomes and quality of care assessment, economic evaluation of health care programs and regional care delivery in surgical oncology. She is among the academics “who are pioneering, globally, the study of team-based cancer care delivery, with a particular interest in communities that are underserved,” Nick Sevdalis, professor at King’s College London, wrote in a letter supporting Noyes’ nomination for the ACTS award.

Noyes credited UB CTSI, her UB colleagues in the School of Public Health and Health Professions, her project coordinator Liz Bengert, and her research team for their creativity and passion for promoting team-based approach in translation science: “I have been extremely fortunate to have colleagues and mentors who genuinely value collaborative work and create a culture of success that is shared and where challenges are tackled together.”