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
2011 ATA Research Grant Recipients
2011 ATA Grants
Inna Astapova, PhD – Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Harvard Medical School) Boston
Elucidating the in vivo Mechanisms by Which Thyroid Hormone Regulates Energy Expenditure
Mihaela Stefan, PhD – Mount Sinai School of Medicine New York, New York
Role of interferon alpha in development of AITD: Epigenetic regulation of key genes
2011 ATA ThyCa Grants – Thyroid Cancer
Naifa Busaidy, MD – University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, Texas
A PI3K based phophoproteome signature to predict prognosis and response to therapy in BRAF mutant papillary thyroid carcinoma
Carmelo Nucera, MD, PhD – Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Harvard Medical School) Boston
Targeting BRAFV600E with an orally available selective inhibitor in novel in vitro and in vivo preclinical models of human papillary thyroid cancer
2011 ATA ThyCa Grant – Medullary Thyroid Cancer
Joanna Klubo-Gwiezdzinsk, PhD – Washington Hospital Center/Georgetown University Washington, DC
The Role of the Translocator Protein (TSPO) in the Thyroid Cancer Response to the Treatment
2011 Second Year Grant Awardees
Jens Mittag, PhD – Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Mayrin Correa-Medina, PhD – University of Miami, Miami, Florida
Tania Pilli, MD, PhD – University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois – ThyCa
Rozita Bagheri-Yarmand, PhD – University of Texas M D Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas – ThyCa Medullary Thyroid Cancer
Wen T. Shen, MD, University of California, San Francisco, California – THANC
