2024 ETSU Distinguished Faculty Award in Research: Dr. Cuihong Jia

Dr. Cuihong Jia, an associate professor in the East Tennessee State University Quillen College of Medicine’s Department of Biomedical Sciences, earned the Distinguished Faculty Award in Research.
Jia, who joined ETSU in 2014, has nearly three dozen publications under her belt and has quickly established herself as one of the university’s premier researchers - translating $50,000 in internal college grants to more than $2.5 million in federal funding, including $662,499 from the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Department of Defense in 2024.  
Much of Jia’s research is on neurological issues such as the sense of smell, post-traumatic stress disorder, and multiple sclerosis.