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
2010 ATA Research Grant Recipients
2010 ATA Grants
Jens Mittag, PhD – Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Regulation of Presympathetic Neuronal Activity by Thyroid Hormone
Mayrin Correa-Medina, PhD – University of Miami, Miami, Florida
Deiodinase type 3 is critical for pancreatic islet development and function
2010 ATA ThyCa Grant – Thyroid Cancer
Tania Pilli, MD, PhD – University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
The role of MADD, an IG20 gene splice variant, and its potential use as therapeutic target in the anaplastic thyroid cancer
2010 ATA ThyCa Grant – Medullary Thyroid Cancer
Rozita Bagheri-Yarmand, PhD – The University of Texas M D Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
Activating transcription factor 4 (ATF4), a novel putative tumor suppressor gene in medullary thyroid cancer
2010 ATA THANC Grant
Wen T. Shen, MD – University of California, San Francisco, California
The Biological Relevance of mtDNA Damage in Hurthle Cell Neoplasms: A 3-Dimensional Molecular Model
2010 Second Year Grant Awardees
Leonard Moise, PhD – University of Rhode Island, Providence, Rhode Island
David McFadden, MD, PhD – Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Dingxie Liu, MD, PhD – Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland – ThyCa
Martin Walter, MD – University Hospital Basel, Switzerland – ThyCa (MTC)
Jena French, PhD – University of Colorado at Denver, Colorado – THANC
