ATA Announces Women Advancing Thyroid Research Award Recipients

By May 4, 2021 February 26th, 2024 Past News Releases, Thyroid Journal

The American Thyroid Association (ATA) celebrates the recipients of the Women Advancing Thyroid Research Award.  This award recognizes and honors the work of young women that are leading outstanding thyroid research.

“Core to the American Thyroid Association’s mission is supporting our members’ career development and fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion in the field.  The Women Advancing Thyroid Research Award is one way that we can recognize not only the role that our members play in advancing research and clinical care, but also their contributions to supporting the American Thyroid Association community.  Drs. Klubo-Gwiezdzinska, Maraka and Papaleontiou are globally recognized experts and we congratulate them on this well-deserved recognition,” said Jacqueline Jonklaas, MD, PhD, ATA’s Secretary. “We wish them continuing success in their careers”.

The American Thyroid Association thanks Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. and the Rosalind Franklin Society, sponsors of this award.

“The Rosalind Franklin Society is thrilled to congratulate these eminent scientists. They bring important attention to the critical contributions of women and multicultural perspectives to the advancement of thyroid research,” Karla Shepard Rubinger, Vice President & Director, Professional Education, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers. 

About the American Thyroid Association®
The American Thyroid Association (ATA) is dedicated to transforming thyroid care through clinical excellence, education, scientific discovery and advocacy in a collaborative and diverse community. ATA® is an international professional medical society with over 1,800 members from 43 countries around the world. The ATA® promotes thyroid awareness and information through Clinical Thyroidology® for the Publica resource that summarizes research for patients and families, and extensive, authoritative resources on thyroid disease and thyroid cancer in both English and Spanish. The ATA® website www.thyroid.org serves as a bonafide clinical resource for patients and the public who look for reliable thyroid-related information.

About Mary Ann Liebert
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers is known for establishing authoritative peer-reviewed journals in many promising areas of science and biomedical research. A complete list of the firm’s more than 90 journals, books, and newsmagazines is available on its website.

About the Rosalind Franklin Society
The Rosalind Franklin Society recognizes and celebrates the contributions of outstanding women in the life sciences and affiliated disciplines, promotes broadened opportunities for women in the sciences, and through its many activities motivates new generations of women to this calling.  The Society honors the achievements of Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958), a British x-ray crystallographer whose extraordinary work, though largely overlooked and under-appreciated at the time, was crucial to the discovery of DNA’s structure by James Watson and Francis Crick.