Ray Sawaya Trainee Award
Ray Sawaya Trainee Award
(previous AANS/CNS Section on Tumors Trainee Award)
AWARDS
| Year | AANS | CNS |
|---|---|---|
|
2024 |
Brandon Santhumayor Revisiting the Evans Index: Radiographic Predictors of Hydrocephalus Risk After Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Vestibular Schwannoma |
Smruti Mahapatra |
|
2023 |
Mojtaba Dayyani RAGE Inhibitor (TTP488) as an Alternative to Dexamethasone for Managing Cerebral Edema Following Brain Tumor Surgery |
Pavel Ricardo Rojas, Diogo Garcia, Jordan J. Jones DWI and ADC Changes in Patients with Glioblastoma IDH-Wild Type Following Surgical Tumor Resection |
|
2022 |
Jordan Jones Plasma Circulating Tumor DNA Enables Detection of Temozolomide Resistance in Glioma |
Diogo Garcia Intra-operative near real-time detection of tumor infiltration in IDH-mutant gliomas using desorption electrospray ionization-mass spectrometry (DESI-MS) |
|
2021 |
Not Given |
David Asuzu Pituitary adenomas evade apoptosis via noxa degradation in Cushing’s disease |
|
2020 |
Sricharan Gopakumar Oncolytic Viral Delivery Into The Surgical Resection Cavity For The Treatment Of Glioblastoma In A Murine Model |
Corey M Gill, BS BA Peritumoral Edema Correlates with Mutational Burden in Meningiomas |
|
2019 |
Truong Do CD200 Inhibition Enhanced the Anti-glioblastoma Effects of Autologous Tumor Vaccination for In Vivo Murine and Canine Glioblastoma models |
Connor Liu Oncolytic Viral Delivery Into The Combination Immune Treatment of a Highly Aggressive Orthotopic Murine Glioblastoma with Checkpoint Blockade Inhibition and Neoantigen Vaccination |
|
2018 |
Amparo Myrelle Wolf The Risk of Malignancy after Stereotactic Radiosurgery |
Amar S. Shah The Impact of Intraoperative MRI and Other Factors on Survival for Patients with Newly Diagnosed Glioblastoma. A Multi Center Assessment of Over 800 Patients |
|
2017 |
Arman Jahangiri Discovery of A Novel Integrin/Tyrosine Kinase Complex That Drives Brain Metastases |
|
|
2016 |
Kristen A. Batich CMV-targeted Dendritic Cell Vaccines Increase Survival for Randomized Patients with Glioblastoma in Successive Trials |
Hormuzdiyar H. Dasenbrock
Unplanned Reoperation After Craniotomy for Tumor: A National Surgical Quality Improvement Program Analysis |
|
2015 |
Darryl Lau A Prospective Phase II Clinical Trial of 5-Aminolevulinic Acid to Correlate Intraoperative Fluorescence Intensity with Histologic Cellularity |
Isaac Jonathan Pomeraniec Early Versus Late Gamma Knife Radiosurgery Following Transsphenoidal Resection for Nonfunctioning Pituitary Macroadenomas: A Matched Cohort Study |
|
2014 |
Javier Figueroa> Mesenchymal Stem Cell Exosomes Enhance Glioma Stem Cell Viability and Stemness via Delivery of MicroRNA |
Sabih Tariq Effendi Insular Glioma Resection: The MD Anderson Experience |
|
2013 |
Eric Michael Thompson |
Eric Michael Thompson |
|
2012 |
Phiroz Tarapore |
Gillian Harrison |
|
2011 |
Arthur Chou |
Orin Bloch |
|
2010 |
Nicholas Marko |
Selby Chen |
|
2009 |
Andrew Foy |
Walavan Sivakumar |
| Year | AANS | CNS |
|---|---|---|
|
2024 |
Mojtaba Dayyani RAGE Inhibitor (TTP488) as an Alternative to Dexamethasone for Managing Cerebral Edema Following Brain Tumor Surgery |
Pavel Pichardo Rojas |
|
2023 |
Brandon Santhumayor Revisiting the Evans Index: Radiographic Predictors of Hydrocephalus Risk After Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Vestibular Schwannoma |
Pavel Ricardo Rojas, Diogo Garcia, Jordan J. Jones DWI and ADC Changes in Patients with Glioblastoma IDH-Wild Type Following Surgical Tumor Resection |
|
2022 |
Jordan Jones Plasma Circulating Tumor DNA Enables Detection of Temozolomide Resistance in Glioma |
Diogo Garcia Intra-operative near real-time detection of tumor infiltration in IDH-mutant gliomas using desorption electrospray ionization-mass spectrometry (DESI-MS) |
|
2021 |
Not Given |
David Asuzu Pituitary adenomas evade apoptosis via noxa degradation in Cushing’s disease |
|
2020 |
Sricharan Gopakumar Oncolytic Viral Delivery Into The Surgical Resection Cavity For The Treatment Of Glioblastoma In A Murine Model |
Corey M Gill, BS BA Peritumoral Edema Correlates with Mutational Burden in Meningiomas |
|
2019 |
Truong Do CD200 Inhibition Enhanced the Anti-glioblastoma Effects of Autologous Tumor Vaccination for In Vivo Murine and Canine Glioblastoma models |
Connor Liu Oncolytic Viral Delivery Into The Combination Immune Treatment of a Highly Aggressive Orthotopic Murine Glioblastoma with Checkpoint Blockade Inhibition and Neoantigen Vaccination |
|
2018 |
Amparo Myrelle Wolf The Risk of Malignancy after Stereotactic Radiosurgery |
Amar S. Shah The Impact of Intraoperative MRI and Other Factors on Survival for Patients with Newly Diagnosed Glioblastoma. A Multi Center Assessment of Over 800 Patients |
|
2017 |
Arman Jahangiri Discovery of A Novel Integrin/Tyrosine Kinase Complex That Drives Brain Metastases |
|
|
2016 |
Kristen A. Batich CMV-targeted Dendritic Cell Vaccines Increase Survival for Randomized Patients with Glioblastoma in Successive Trials |
Hormuzdiyar H. Dasenbrock
Unplanned Reoperation After Craniotomy for Tumor: A National Surgical Quality Improvement Program Analysis |
|
2015 |
Darryl Lau A Prospective Phase II Clinical Trial of 5-Aminolevulinic Acid to Correlate Intraoperative Fluorescence Intensity with Histologic Cellularity |
Isaac Jonathan Pomeraniec Early Versus Late Gamma Knife Radiosurgery Following Transsphenoidal Resection for Nonfunctioning Pituitary Macroadenomas: A Matched Cohort Study |
|
2014 |
Javier Figueroa> Mesenchymal Stem Cell Exosomes Enhance Glioma Stem Cell Viability and Stemness via Delivery of MicroRNA |
Sabih Tariq Effendi Insular Glioma Resection: The MD Anderson Experience |
|
2013 |
Eric Michael Thompson |
Eric Michael Thompson |
|
2012 |
Phiroz Tarapore |
Gillian Harrison |
|
2011 |
Arthur Chou |
Orin Bloch |
|
2010 |
Nicholas Marko |
Selby Chen |
|
2009 |
Andrew Foy |
Walavan Sivakumar |
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