The Awards Committee is happy to report that the Tumor Section offered 27 awards to high scoring abstracts submitted this year, more than any other section at the AANS and CNS meetings. While the pandemic limited our ability to physically come together at the AANS meeting this year, the Tumor Section was committed to honoring awards for the top scoring abstracts submitted to the AANS. In addition, the Tumor Section award winners have now been determined for the CNS annual meeting this year. The awardees reflect the high caliber and spectrum of basic science, translational, and clinical research pursued within the neurosurgical oncology field.
Additionally, the prestigious Ab Guha award will be recognized at this year’s CNS meeting. The Ab Guha award is jointly granted by the Tumor Section and the Society of Neuro-Oncology (SNO) and is awarded on alternating years at the CNS or SNO Annual Meeting after selection by voting members of the Tumor Section and SNO. We are thrilled to announce that Gelareh Zadeh, MD, PhD is the winner of the 2021 Ab Guha award.
We are hopeful to be able to meet again this October in Austin for the Tumor Section Satellite meeting and the CNS annual meeting. Please join us in congratulating this year’s Tumor Section Award winners for the AANS and CNS 2021 below.
2021 AANS Tumor Section Award Winners
(13 awards given this year)
Award | Title | Recipient | |
| National Brain Tumor Society (NBTS) Award | Alliance A071601: Phase II Trial of BRAF/MEK Inhibition in Newly Diagnosed Papillary Craniopharyngiomas | Priscilla Brastianos | |
| Stryker CNS Tumor Award | Stimulated Raman Histology for Rapid Intraoperative Diagnosis of Meningiomas | Long Di | |
| Southeastern Brain Tumor Foundation (SBTF) | Characterization of the Minimal Residual Disease in Human Glioblastoma Approaches in Glioblastoma | Maleeha A Qazi | |
| Zeiss Brain Tumor Research Award | Next-Generation Modality for Intraoperative Tumor Histoarchitecture Discrimination: Prospective Utilization of In Vivo Confocal Laser Endomicroscopy | Irakliy Abramov | |
| Integra Foundation Award | RNA Polymerase II Meningioma Mutations Dysregulate Transcriptional Pause-Release and Exhibit Susceptibility to CDK9 Inhibition | Victoria Clark | |
| Mizuho Minimally Invasive Brain Tumor Surgery Award | Deep Neural Networks Can Perform Automated Instrument Detection in Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery | Guillaume Georges Kugener | |
| American Brain Tumor Association Young Investigator Award | Intra-operative microdialysis for tumor biomarker discovery–a candidate platform for accelerated pharmacodynamic feedback. | Terence Calvin Burns | |
| Lunsford and Leksell Radiosurgery Award | Dose to Neuroanatomical Structures Surrounding Pituitary Adenomas and the Effect of Stereotactic Radiosurgery on Neuro-endocrine Function: An International, Multicenter Study | Isaac Jonathan Pomeraniec | |
| Brainlab Neurosurgery Award | Long-term survival following PDT for HGG depending on MGMT | Artemii Rynda | |
| Rosenblum-Mahaley Clinical Research Award | Outcomes and Complications following Treatment for Sacral Chordoma: A Comparison between the United States Experience and Carbon Ion Radiation Therapy at the National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science & Technology | Mohamad Bydon | |
| Journal of Neuro-Oncology Award | Cytolytic Score Correlates with An Immunosuppressive Tumor Microenvironment and Reduced Survival in Medulloblastoma | Jia-Shu Chen | |
| Synaptive Preuss Research Award | Rational Development of Synergistic Therapies Alongside BMI1 Inhibition for Group 3 Medulloblastoma. | David Bakhshinyan | |
| Ronald L. Bittner Award on Brain Tumor Research | B-cell-based Vaccine, An Effective Immunotherapy for Preclinical Models of Glioblastoma | Brandyn Castro |
2021 CNS Tumor Section Award Winners
(14 awards given this year)
Award | Title | Recipient | |
| National Brain Tumor Society (NBTS) Award | Dendritic Cells Immunotherapy in the Treatment of Glioblastoma | Roberta Rehder | |
| Southeastern Brain Tumor Foundation (SBTF) | Oncomagnetics: A potential new noninvasive magnetic stimulation technology to treat glioblastoma | David S. Baskin | |
| Stryker CNS Tumor Award | Proposed Revision to Meningioma Classification System to Utilize Methylation Status of EGFR | Ava Kjos | |
| Zeiss Brain Tumor Research Award | Intraoperative, confocal laser endomicroscopy in pituitary surgery | Sven-Martin Schlaffer | |
| Integra Foundation Award | Title: Detection and characterization of glioma and therapy-associated biomarkers in CSF | Lucas P. Carlstrom | |
| Mizuho Minimally Invasive Brain Tumor Surgery Award | Long-Term Follow-up of 54 cases of Recurrent Glioblastoma treated with Magnetic Resonance-Guided Laser Interstitial Thermal Therapy | Jubran Jubran | |
| American Brain Tumor Association Young Investigator Award | Intraoperative detection of IDH mutation status and residual tumor in glioma | Diogo Garcia | |
| Lunsford and Leksell Radiosurgery Award | An International Multicenter Matched Cohort Analysis of Incidental Meningioma Progression During Active Surveillance or After Stereotactic Radiosurgery: The IMPASSE Study | Jason P. Sheehan | |
| Brainlab Neurosurgery Award
| Preservation of deep posterior part of the middle frontal gyrus and cingulate gyrus zone II prevents visuospatial cognition and working memory impairment during right frontal glioma surgery | Mitsutoshi Nakada | |
| Rosenblum-Mahaley Clinical Research Award
| Supramarginal Resection Impact on Overall Survival for IDH-Wildtype Glioblastoma according to their Cell Density Distribution and Infiltration profile: A Mathematical Model. | Tito Vivas-Buitrago | |
| Journal of Neuro-Oncology Award
| TERT promoter mutation analysis for blood-based diagnosis and monitoring of gliomas | Anudeep Yekula | |
| Synaptive Preuss Research Award
| NF2 loss of function in the context of hypoxia drives radiation resistance in grade 2 meningioma | Bhuvic Patel | |
| StacheStrong Award | Simultaneous preservation of language and executive function in the dominant hemisphere. | Alexander Arash Aabedi | |
| AANS/CNS Section on Tumors Neuro-Oncology Trainee Award | Pituitary adenomas evade apoptosis via noxa degradation in Cushing’s disease | David Asuzu |