Costas G. Hadjipanayis, M.D., Ph.D., Walavan Sivakumar, MD., Wenya Linda Bi, M.D., Ph.D., Christopher P. Cifarelli, M.D., Ph.D., Gautam Mehta, M.D., Brian Williams, M.D.
The Tumor Section Awards Committee is happy to report 17 awards will be granted to high scoring abstracts for the upcoming AANS 2022 meeting in Philadelphia. Three new awards will be granted at the AANS meeting this year and include the Elekta Tumor Section Award, KLS Martin Tumor Award, and the Leica CNS Tumor Award. The awardees reflect the high caliber and spectrum of basic science, translational, and clinical research pursued within the neurosurgical oncology field.
For a complete list of all the AANS/CNS Tumor Section awards please visit:
https://www.tumorsection.org/research-awards/
Please join us in congratulating this year’s Tumor Section Award winners for the AANS 2022 meeting below:
2022 AANS Tumor Section Award Winners (17 awards given this year)
| Award | Title | Recipient | |
| Integra Foundation Award | David Asuzu | Single-cell transcriptomic analysis of sporadic Cushing’s adenomas and adjacent gland reveals novel tumorigenic pathways | |
| Ronald Bittner Award | Jawad Fares | CNS Drug Screening Identifies Metixene as a Novel Autophagy Modulator in Brain Metastases | |
| Elekta Tumor Section Award | John Andrews | Dissociating Broca’s aphasia from Broca’s area | |
| StacheStrong Award | Syeda Batool | EGFRvIII mutation detection in plasma derived extracellular vesicle RNA | |
| KLS Martin Award | Siri Sahib Khalsa | Prospective Validation of Machine Learning Technique for Automated Intraoperative Frozen Diagnosis of Brain Tumors | |
| Leica Award | Constantinos Hadjipanayis | A multi-center study of intra-operative, in vivo, optics-based detection of brain tumor tissue using Raman spectroscopy and machine learning | |
| American Brain Tumor Association Young Investigator Award | Christopher Alvarez-Breckenridge | Microenvironmental correlates of immune checkpoint inhibitor response in human melanoma brain metastases revealed by T cell receptor and single-cell RNA sequencing | |
| Lunsford & Leksell Radiosurgery Award | Zane Schnurman | Matched Comparison of Hearing Outcomes after Stereotactic Radiosurgery or Observation Alone in Vestibular Schwannoma Patients | |
| Brainlab Neurosurgery Award | June Ma | GammaTile brachytherapy in the treatment of recurrent glioblastomas | |
| Rosenblum-Mahaley Clinical Research Award | Andres Ramos-Fresnedo | Survival Outcomes of Molecular Glioblastoma: A Multicenter Study | |
| Journal of Neuro-Oncology Award | Victor Arrieta-Gonzalez | ERK1/2 phosphorylation predicts survival following anti-PD-1 immunotherapy in recurrent glioblastoma | |
| Synaptive Preuss Research Award | Matthew Sun | Systemic Adoptive-Cell-Transfer Immunotherapy for High-Grade Meningiomas Targeting NY-ESO-1 Using TCR-transduced T-Cells | |
| AANS/CNS Joint Section on Tumors Neuro-Oncology Trainee Award | Jordan Jones | Plasma Circulating Tumor DNA Enables Detection of Temozolomide Resistance in Glioma | |
| National Brain Tumor Society (NBTS) Award | Jacob Young | Convection-delivered adenoviral gene therapy reprograms the immunosuppressive glioblastoma microenvironment | |
| Southeastern Brain Tumor Foundation (SBTF) Award | Dagoberto Estevez Ordonez | Evaluation of immunologic parameters in canine glioma patients treated with an oncolytic herpes virus | |
| Stryker CNS Tumor Award | Yusuf Mehkri | Evaluating efficacy of a novel hydrogel-CXCL9-mRNA vaccine in combination with temozolomide in a murine glioma model | |
| Mizuho Minimally Invasive Brain Tumor Surgery Award | Hanna Algattas | Endoscopic Endonasal Resection of Rathke’s Cleft Cysts: A Single Institution Analysis of 113 Consecutive Patients |