American Head & Neck Society

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American Head & Neck Society | AHNS

The mission of the AHNS is to advance Education, Research, and Quality of Care for the head and neck oncology patient.

AHNS Research Announcements and Opportunities

The links below provide 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.

Congratulations to the 2021 AHNS Award Winners!

AHNS Pilot Grant 

Ryan Carey, MD
University of Pennsylvania
“Targeting T2Rs to activate apoptosis in oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma”

AHNS/AAO-HNSF Young Investigator Combined Award

Theresa Guo, MD
The Regents of the University of California, San Diego
“Establishing immunogenicity of splice variant derived neoantigens in HNSCC”

AHNS Alando J. Ballantyne Resident Research Pilot Grant 

Sarah Dermody, MD
University of Michigan
“Circulating Tumor DNA (ctDNA) Urine Kinetics in HPV-related head and Neck Cancer”

AHNS Alando J. Ballantyne Resident Research Pilot Grant sponsored by AHNS Endocrine Surgery Section and EISAI Pharmaceuticals

Tom Barrett, MD
Washington University School of Medicine
“Spatial Architecture of Immune Evasion in Head and Neck Squamous Cell”

AHNS Alando J. Ballantyne Resident Research Pilot Grant sponsored by AHNS Presidential Request for Application Pilot Award on Basic and Translational Research

Rebecca Gao, MD
University of Michigan
“Nanopore Sequencing for the Real-Time Detection of Melanoma-Involved Lymph Nodes”

AHNS Presidential Request for Application Pilot Award on Mucosal Head and Neck Cancer Research

Albert Han, MD
The Regents of the University of California
“The microbiome of oral tongue squamous cell carcinoma in young patients”

 

Myers’ Summer Travel Fellowship in Otolaryngology for under-represented minority medical students

This program is sponsored by the American Head and Neck Society Research and Education Foundation, thanks to the very generous contributions of Dr. Eugene Myers and Dr. Jeffrey Myers, as well as other AHNS donors.  It is intended to expose an under-represented minority medical student to the field of Head and Neck surgery specifically and Otolaryngology in general.
A grant of $5,000 will be awarded to a medical student to cover travel, lodging and food expenses for the summer experience.  This summer program offers the interested candidate the opportunity to work in a Department of Academic Excellence in Head and Neck Surgical Oncology that has an approved Fellowship Training Program from the Advanced Training Council of the AHNS.  Participants will be assigned to a clinical faculty mentor and will rotate on his or her clinical service and have the chance to participate in the care of Head and Neck Cancer patients in the outpatient setting, inpatient environment, as well as the operating room.  Summer fellows will also have the opportunity to perform basic, translational, clinical, or population based research under the guidance of a chosen/assigned research mentor.
We are requesting applicants to submit: 
  • A personal statement, not more than 500 words (one page, single-spaced) detailing why you want this fellowship experience. Please include in the personal statement your underrepresented minority status
  • A copy of your CV to be included with the personal statement
  • A letter of recommendation
  • Students must be in good standing at an accredited US medical school
The 2021 Myers’ Summer Travel Fellowship application is now closed.
 
Recipients of this travel fellowship award will be expected to engage in a research project with a mentor of their choosing or one of our volunteer mentors from the AHNS. This could be a new project, or an ancillary project nested within an ongoing investigation.
At the end of the fellowship, the awardees are expected to provide a summary of their experience in its totality, a brief summary of what they learned and the most impactful experiences throughout the summer. This should include feedback on what worked well and what did not.
In addition, the awardees will be required to submit an abstract-like document summarizing their research project including objectives, methods, results and conclusions. Submission to an otolaryngology-related meeting is encouraged but not required and this would be at the discretion of the mentor.

Congratulations to the recipients:

2021: Symone V. Jordan

University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, KY
MD Candidate, Class of 2024
“Parathyroid Carcinoma: An NCDB Analysis to Understand Diagnostic Challenges and
Outcomes of a Rare Endocrine Tumor”

2020: Derrick B. Lewis

Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Rochester, Minnesota
MD Candidate, Class 2023
“Improving Care for Patients with HPV+ Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma”

2019: Ezinne U. Agwaramgbo 

University of Miami Florida, Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
MD Candidate, Class of 2022
“Determining correlation between point of care and ELISA tests in detecting P16 biomarker protein”

2018: Frantzlee LaCrete

University of Nebraska Medical Center
MD Candidate, Class of 2024

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