Award Winners

Paul LoGerfo Research Award Winners

2023

Claire Graves, MD
University of California Davis
"Dynamic PET/CT for Lateralization of Aldosterone Hypersecretion"

Aditya Shirali, MD
University of Florida
"Characterizing the Role of Immunosenescence in Differentiated Thyroid Cancer in the Older Adult"

2022

James Wu, MD
UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine
"Liquid Biopsy for Thyroid Cancer: Enumeration and Molecular Profiling of Thyroid-derived Extracellular Vesicles"

Taylor C Brown, MD, MHS
Washington University in St. Louis and John Cochran VA
"Credentialing Human DNA Polymerase Theta (POLQ) as a Novel Therapeutic Target in Aggressive Thyroid Cancer"

2021

Priya H. Dedhia, MD, PhD
The Ohio State University
"Targeting Wnt and IGF2 pathways in adrenocortical carcinoma"

Brenessa Lindeman, MD, MEHP
University of Alabama at Birmingham
"Entrustable Professional Activities in Endocrine Surgery: Ensuring Trainees are Prepared for Unsupervised Practice"

2020

Samira Sadowski, MD
National Institutes of Health
"Novel Treatments Targeting Epigenetic Regulation of Somatostatin Receptor Type 2 Expression in Radionuclide-Refractory Neuroendocrine Tumors"

Dawn Elfenbein, MD
University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Randomized Controlled Trial of Preoperative Steroids in Autoimmune Thyroid Disease"

2019

Mahsa Javid, MD, PhD
Medical University of South Carolina
"The role of advanced glycation end products in thyroid cancer"

Naira Baregamian, MD
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
"Immunometabolic Glutathione Pathway-dependent Targeting of Tumor Progression in Thyroid Cancer"

2018

Heather Wachtel, MD
University of Pennsylvania
"Circulating miRNA signatures in primary hyperparathyroidism"

David Schneider, MD
University of Wisconsin
"Using patient language for measuring quality of life in thyroid cancer"

2017

Xavier Keutgen, MD
Rush University Medical Center
"Transcriptional analysis of syndromic and sporadic pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors yields novel genotype specific targets"

Raymon Grogan, MD
University of Chicago
"Microbiome alterations and thyroid cancer risk"

2016

Basic Science
Dhaval Patel, MD
National Institutes of Health
"Comprehensive Metabolomic Analysis of Adrenocortical Carcinoma: Toward Improved Diagnosis, Prognosis and Therapeutic Targets"

Clinical Research
Susan Pitt, MD, MPHS
University of Wisconsin
"Decision-Making about Papillary Thyroid Microcarcinoma Treatment"

2015

Basic Research
Brian Untch, MD
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
"RTKs in Resistane to RAS Inhibition in Thyroid Cancer"

Clinical Research
Insoo Suh, MD
Univeristy of California San Francisco
"FDG-PET Imaging for Parathyroid Tumors"

2014

Michael Stang, MD
University of Pittsburgh
"Lysosome Centered Signaling and Regulation of Autophagy in a Model of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma"

2013

Jason D. Prescott, MD
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
"Development of a High Throughput in vivo Screening System for Small Molecule Activators of Thyroid Differentiation: In Search of Novel Agents for Treatment of Undifferentiated Thyroid Cancer"

2012

Daniel Ruan, MD
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
"Overcoming Medullary Thyroid Cancer Resistance to Vandetanib: Characterization of the Mechanisms"

2011

Naris Nilubol, MD
National Cancer Institute
"Identification and Validation of Novel Anticancer Compounds for the Treatment of Adrenocortical Cancer"

2010

Rebecca S. Sippel, MD
University of Wisconsin – Madison
"Characterization of Age-Related Changes in the Notch1 Pathway in Well-Differentiated Thyroid Cancers"