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.
2005 ATA Research Grant Recipients
2005 ATA Grants
Heike Heuer, PhD – Leibniz Institute for Age Research – Fritz Lipmann Institute, Jena, Germany
Generation and Analysis of Mice Deficient in the Thyroid Hormone Transporter MCT8
Bin Xu, PhD – University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Mechanism of Regulation Gene Expression by Thyroid Hormone Receptors through RNA Binding Pathways
2005 ATA ThyCa Grant – Thyroid Cancer
Erich Sturgis, MD, FACS – The University of Texas M D Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
Radiation Response Genotype & Risk of Papillary Thyroid Cancer: A Case-Control Study
2005 ATA ThyCa Grant – Medullary Thyroid Cancer
Matthias Schott, MD – Heinrich-Heine-University of Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany
Induction of Cytotoxic Immunity in Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma by Dendritic
2005 Second Year Grant Awardees
Orsolya Dohan, MD
Raymond Douglas, MD, PhD
Sareh Parangi, MD – ThyCa Grant
