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.
2007 ATA Research Grant Recipients
2007 ATA THANC Grants – Thyroid Cancer
Caroline S. Kim, MD – Tufts Medical Center, Brookline, Massachusetts
Identification and Analysis of Signature Gene Alterations that Contribute to Thyroid Cancer Progression
Kepal N. Patel, MD – New York University, New York, New York
MUC1 Mediates Invasion and Augments the Malignant Phenotype of Thyroid
Rebecca E. Schweppe, PhD – University of Colorado, Aurora, Colorado
The Role of FAK and Src Signaling in Thyroid Cancer Cells Resistant to MKK1/2 Inhibition
2007 ATA Grants
Helmut Grasberger, MD – University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Application of Reverse Genetics in the Identification of Defects in the Dual Oxidase Maturation Factor in Humans
Brian Kim, MD – Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
Thyroid Hormone, Type 2 Deiodinase, and Energy Expenditure in Human Skeletal Muscle
2007 ATA ThyCa Grant – Thyroid Cancer
Krystian Jazdzewski, MD, PhD – Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
The Role of miR146a in PTC
2007 ATA ThyCa Grant – Medullary Thyroid Cancer
Mabel Ryder, MD – Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
The Role of Tumor-Associated Macrophages on Thyroid Cancer Progression
2007 Second Year Grant Awardees
Sara Danzi, PhD
Honey Reddi, PhD
Lionel Groussin, MD – ThyCa Grant
Xianmin Xia, PhD – ThyCa Grant
