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| NEW YORK, NY | For Immediate Release |
Yuri Nikiforov Awarded American Thyroid Association’s 2007 Van Meter Award October 6, 2007—Yuri Nikiforov, M.D., Ph.D., of Pittsburgh, Pa., was honored with the American Thyroid Association’s (ATA) prestigious 2007 Van Meter Award today at the ATA’s 78th Annual Meeting in New York City, where he also delivered the lecture, “Radiation-induced Thyroid Cancer: Lessons from the Past and Hopes for the Future.” Established in 1930, the Van Meter Award honors an investigator who has made outstanding contributions to research on the thyroid gland. The award is the ATA’s oldest and most anticipated because it is kept secret until the recipient presents a major lecture at the ATA Annual Meeting. Dr. Nikiforov is currently a professor of pathology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, where he runs his research laboratory and the Division of Molecular Anatomic Pathology. He studied medicine and experimental pathology in his hometown of Minsk, Belarus, where he also practiced pathology and was involved in pathological evaluation and research on thyroid cancers arising in children following the Chernobyl nuclear accident. After moving to the United States in 1993, Dr. Nikiforov did postdoctoral research fellowships in Pathology and Endocrinology at the Rhode Island Hospital, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, and University of Cincinnati. After validating his medical degree and finishing residency training, he joined the faculty at the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Nikiforov is the author of more than 70 research articles and of several book chapters. He serves on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, Endocrine Pathology, and Human Pathology. Dr. Nikiforov serves as an ad-hoc member of the National Institute of Health Integrative Clinical Endocrinology and Reproduction Study Section. His research over the years has been supported by the Knoll Thyroid Research Clinical Fellowship Award and grants from the National Institutes of Health and American Cancer Society. For more information, please contact the ATA at thyroid@thyroid.org. |
