AHNS Research Announcements and Opportunities

Turn to this section for information about AHNS grants being offered to researchers, reports from those already funded, resources sponsored by AHNS or its members, new discoveries in clinical and basic science research pertinent to head and neck cancer along with information about grants from NIH, ACS and other sources.

• Grant Information
  • AAO-HNSF/AHNS Surgeon Scientist Career Development Award
  • AHNS/AAO-HNSF Young Investigator Award
  • AHNS Pilot Funds
  • AAO-HNSF/AHNS Surgeon Scientist Career Development Award
  • AHNS RFA (1) (Synthes Award)
    
    
• Grant Reports
  
  
• Clinical Trials

Congratulations to the 2009 AHNS Award Winners!

AHNS Alando J. Ballantyne Resident Research Pilot Grant

• Alec Vaezi, MD, University of Pittsburgh
  "Implications of Abnormal Mitosis in Chromosomal Instability and Tumorigenesis"

AHNS Pilot Research Grants

• Raewyn Seaberg, MD, PhD, University of Toronto
  "MECT1-MAML2 Fusion Transcript in Patients with Mucoepidermoid Carcinoma"
  
  
• Irina Chaikhoutdinov, MD, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  "Characterization of Squamous Cell Carcinoma Related Oncogene 5/DCUN1D5"

AHNS/AAO-HNS Young Investigator Awards

• Babak Givi, MD, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  "MAPK Pathway as a Determinant of Vaccinia Oncolytic Efficacy in Thyroid Cancer"
  
  
• Rutherford (Weg) Ongkeko, MD University of California: San Diego
  "BMI1 in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma Stem Cells"

AHNS/AAO-HNS Surgeon Scientist Career Development Award

• Neil Gross, MD, Oregon Health and Science University
  "Phase I/II Study of Postoperative Adjuvant Chemoradiation for Cutaneous SCCHN"