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
2009 ATA Research Grant Recipients
2009 ATA Grants
David G. McFadden, MD, PhD – Thyroid Associates, Boston, Massachusetts
Modeling BRaf-dependent thyroid cancer in the mouse
Leonard Moise, ScB, PhD – University of Rhode Island, Providence, Rhode Island
Induction of Antigen-Specific Tolerance in Autoimmune Thyroiditis
2009 ATA ThyCa Grant – Thyroid Cancer
Dingxie Liu, MD, PhD – Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
Dually Targeting the MAP Kinase and PI3K Pathways in Thyroid Cancer
2009 ATA ThyCa Grant – Medullary Thyroid Cancer
Martin A. Walter, MD – University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland
Somatostatin-coupled Nanoparticles for Imaging and Therapy of Medullary Thyroid Cancer
2009 ATA THANC Grant – Thyroid Cancer
Jena D. French, PhD – University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado
CD4+ T Lymphocyte Polarization in Papillary Thyroid Cancer
2009 Second Year Grant Awardees
Nashaat Z. Gerges, PhD
Hiroaki Kimura, PhD
Michael S. Fenton, PhD – ThyCa Grant
Libero Santarpia, MD, PhD – ThyCa Grant
Ann Gramza, MD – THANC Grant
Rebecca Leboeuf, MD – THANC Grant
Undraga Schagdarsurengin, PhD – THANC Grant
