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The ATA supports thyroid research through the generosity of members, patients, industry, and workplace donors enabling the ATA to award thyroid research grants since 1996. ThyCa: Thyroid Cancer Survivors, Inc., a member of the ATA Alliance for Patient Education and Thyroid Head and Neck Cancer Foundation (THANC) contribute significant thyroid research grants establishing additional grants for young investigators that are awarded (in total) by expert reviewers on the ATA Research Committee. Our thanks to the members of the ATA Research Committee who have contributed their time and expertise over many years to the advancement of thyroidology.
2008 ATA Research Grant Recipients
2008 ATA Grant
Nashaat Z. Gerges, PhD
Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Role of Neurogranin in Hypothyroidism-induced Synaptic Plasticity Deficits
2008 ATA Grant
Hiroaki Kimura, PhD
The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland
Macrophage Causes Thyroid Diseases in LMP7 KO Mice: A New Spontaneous Thyroiditis Model
2008 ATA ThyCa Grant – Thyroid Cancer
Michael S. Fenton, PhD
West Los Angeles VA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
Regulation of Sodium/Iodide Symporter (NIS) Gene Expression in Thyroid Cancer
2008 ATA ThyCa Grant – Medullary Thyroid Cancer
Libero Santarpia, MD, PhD
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
Identification of microRNA (miRNA) Target Genes in Human Medullary Thyroid Cancer: A Specific Role of miRNAs to Promote Invasion and Metastasis
2008 ATA THANC Grant –Thyroid Cancer
Ann Gramza, MD
Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon
Identification of Primary and Secondary RET Kinase Mutations Associated with Vandetanib (ZD6474) Resistance in Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma
2008 ATA THANC Grant –Thyroid Cancer
Rebecca Leboeuf, MD
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
Reacquisition of RAI Uptake of RAI-refractory Metastatic BRAF (+) Thyroid Cancers by Pretreatment with the Selective MEK Inhibitor AZD6244
2008 ATA THANC Grant –Thyroid Cancer
Undraga Schagdarsurengin
Institute of Genetics, Giessen, Germany
Epigenetic Inactivation of Ras Effectors in Thyroid Neoplasm
2008 Second Year Grant Awardees
Helmut Grasberger, MD
Brian Kim, MD
Krystian Jazdzewski, MD, PhD – ThyCa Grant
Mabel Ryder, MD – ThyCa Grant
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