FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ON April 13, 2010
AAN and AAN Foundation Award Nearly $2 Million for Brain Research Fellowships
TORONTO -
The 好色先生 (AAN) and the are providing $1,985,000 in 2010 to 14 recipients of clinical research training fellowships to support brain research. The fellowships are designed to support clinical research for a variety of neurologic disorders. The fellowships will be awarded at the AAN鈥檚 62nd Annual Meeting in Toronto, Wednesday, April 14, 2010. The AAN Annual Meeting is the world鈥檚 largest gathering of neurologists with more than 10,000 attendees and over 2,000 presentations on the latest advances in neurologic research. Clinical research is the fundamental transition stage between discovery and treatment. Clinical research provides the scientific basis for all forms of care, addresses patient and caregiver needs, and is the backbone for drug development and cost-effectiveness studies needed to improve lives. Fellowships provide recipients with up to three years of 鈥減rotected time鈥� with salary which allows them to continue important research projects in their chosen interests. This year鈥檚 recipients and their research titles include: AAN Foundation Clinical Research Training Fellowships Suzanne Goh, MD Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY Title: 鈥淣euroanatomical Bases for the Phenotypic Heterogeneity of Autism Spectrum Disorders鈥� Khalid A. Hanafy, MD, PhD Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY Title: 鈥淯sing Human Brain Interstitial Fluid to Determine the Role of Microglia in Poor Grade Subarachnoid Hemorrhage鈥� Eugenia Ho, MD Children鈥檚 Hospital Boston, Boston, MA Title: 鈥淪tudy of Cerebral Blood Flow in Pediatric Stroke Using Perfusion and Diffusion-Weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging鈥� Vikram Khurana, MD, PhD Massachusetts General Hospital, Cambridge, MA Title: 鈥淓stablishing and Validating a Stem Cell-Based Model of Synucleinopathy鈥� William C. Kreisl, MD National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD Title: 鈥淚maging Brain Inflammation in Alzheimer鈥檚 Disease and Minor Cognitive Impairment鈥� Michael Kruer, MD Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR Title: 鈥淒isease Gene Discovery in Neurodegeneration with Brain Iron Accumulation (NBIA)鈥� Nicte Mejia, MD Massachusetts General Hospital, Cambridge, MA Title: 鈥淚mproving Access to Neurologic Care鈥� Kevin Sheth, MD University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD Title: 鈥淧hysiological Predictors of Outcome in Traumatic Brain Injury鈥� AAN Foundation Clinical Research Training Fellowship in Stroke Sharon Poisson, MD University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA Title: 鈥淧ilot Randomized Controlled Trial of Nursing Protocol to Avoid Foley Catheter Placement in Stroke Patients鈥� AAN Foundation Practice Research Training Fellowship Farrah Mateen, MD John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD Title: 鈥淒evelopment of a Guillain-Barre Syndrome Surveillance System in Low Income Countries: A Multi-National Feasibility Study鈥� AAN Foundation Robert Katzman, MD, Clinical Research Training Fellowship in Alzheimer鈥檚 Research Winston Chiong, MD, PhD University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA Title: 鈥淐ognitive Components of Vulnerability to Fraud in Aging and Mild Cognitive Impairment鈥� AAN Foundation/Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of America Clinician-Scientist Development Award Jeffrey Guptill, MD Duke University Medical Center, Raleigh, NC Title: 鈥淎nalysis of Costs, Resource Utilization, Practice Patterns, and Outcomes in Myasthenia Gravis鈥� AAN Foundation/Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers John F. Kurtzke, MD, FAAN Clinician-Scientist Development Three-Year Award Gabriele De Luca, MD, PhD Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN Title: 鈥淕enetic-Pathologic Correlations in Multiple Sclerosis鈥� AAN Foundation/National Multiple Sclerosis Society Clinician-Scientist Development Award Zongqi Xia, MD, PhD Brigham and Women鈥檚 Hospital, Boston, MA Title: 鈥淓xploring the Function of the TNFRSF1A Allele Associated with Multiple Sclerosis (MS)鈥� The 62nd Annual Meeting of the AAN takes place at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
