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.
2006 ATA Research Grant Recipients
2006 ATA Grants
Sara Danzi, PhD – NYU School of Medicine/North Shore University Hospital, Manhasset, New York
Novel Thyroid Hormone Based Therapies for Human Cardiac Disease
Honey V. Reddi, PhD – Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
Determination of the Oncogenic Potential of PAX8/PPARy Fusion Protein (PPFP) and Elucidation of its Mechanism of Action in Follicular Thyroid Carcinoma
2006 ATA ThyCa Grant – Thyroid Cancer
Lionel Groussin, MD, PhD – Cochin Institute, Paris, France
Regulation and Expression of Dual Specificity Phosphatases in Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma
2006 ATA ThyCa Grant – Medullary Thyroid Cancer
Xianmin Xia, PhD – The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
Targeting p55PIK phosphoinositide-3 kinase (PI 3-kinase) in the Treatment of Human Thyroid Cancers
2006 Second Year Grant Awardees
Heike Heuer, PhD
Bin Xu, PhD
Erich Sturgis, MD, FACS – ThyCa Grant
Matthias Schott, MD – ThyCa Grant
