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 2011 AHNS Award Winners!

  • AHNS Alando J. Ballantyne Resident Research Pilot Grant:
    Jonathan R. George, MD, MPH, University of California: San Francisco "Case-control Study of a Novel Head & Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma Biomarker".
  • AHNS Pilot Research Grant:
    Waleed M. Abuzeid, MD, University of Michigan "STAT3 Inhibition for the Treatment of Head and Neck Cancer".
    Sunshine M. Dwojak, MD, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary "Outcomes Among American Indians in South Dakota with Squamous Cell Carcinoma".
  • AHNS Pilot Research Grant:
    Osamu Tetsu, MD, PHD, Regents of the University of California: San Francisco "Improvement of EGFR Targeted Therapy for Salivary Gland Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma".
  • AHNS/AAO-HNS Young Investigator Award:
    Natalya Chernichenko, MD, Yale University "The Role of Rho Family Proteins in Perineural Invasion by Cancer Cells".
    Paul M. Weinberger, MD, Medical College of Georgia "Minimally Invasive Multiplexed Assays for the Detection of Thyroid Cancer".
  • Robert Maxwell Byers Award:
    Parul Sinha, MBBS, MS, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri "Extracapsular Spread Is Neither a Strong Negative Prognosticator Nor a Useful Adjuvant Therapy Determining Factor in P16+ Surgically Treated Oropharynx Carcinoma".
  • Best Resident Basic Science Paper:
    Joseph A. Knowles, MD, University of Alabama at Birmingham "Targeted Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound Improves Detection of Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma in Vitro and in Vivo".
  • Best Resident Clinical Paper:
    Lorien M. Paulson, MD, Oregon Health and Sciences University "The Role of Molecular Markers and Tumor Histology in Central Lymph Node Metastasis of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma".
  • Best Prevention & Early Detection Paper:
    Jan Gosepath, MD, PhD, Department of ORL-HNS HSK Wiesbaden, Germany
    "First Systematic Intraoperative Application of Confocal Endomicroscopy for Early Detection and Resection of Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Head and Neck".