We are so proud of graduate student Piyasuda Pukkanasut for winning the 2022 Women Advancing Thyroid Research (WATR) Award from ATA’s 2022 Annual Meeting. This award recognizes and celebrates the work of early career women conducting outstanding thyroid research. Our abstract title is “Targeting Voltage-Gated Sodium Channels in Medullary Thyroid Cancer Using Small Molecules.” In this study, her team identified a small molecule VGSC inhibitor which its half-maximal inhibitory concentration (IC₅₀) in MTC cells were 6-fold lower than the normal thyroid cells (p<0.0001). The treatment of MTC cells with half of the IC₅₀ concentration of the lead compound reduced MTC migration/invasion up to 25%.

The WATR Award is an ATA award sponsored by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. through the Rosalind Franklin Society (https://www.rosalindfranklinsociety.org/).

Dr. Andrea Gillis had fantastic poster and oral presentations on her project “SSTR2 and TSH Receptor Expression in Hurthle Cell Neoplasms” at the 2022 annual meeting of the American Thyroid Association (ATA) in Montréal, Québec! Great work Dr. Gillis!

Members of the Neuroendocrine Surgery Lab Team presented their research at the North American Neuroendocrine Tumor Society (NANETS) 2022 Annual Meeting in Washington, DC October 27-29th! Scroll down to learn more about their presentations:

Members of the Neuroendocrine Surgery Research group and Department of Surgery at UAB enjoyed a 7 mile kayak trip down the Coosa River! Everyone had a great time and we look forward to kayaking together again soon.

The lab celebrated Rachael Guenter’s doctoral commencement by having lunch together at Ironwood Kitchen in Homewood, AL!

February 20, 2020: Rachael Guenter presents her work “Establishment of a Notch1-knockout Neuroendocrine Cancer Cell Line Using CRISPR/Cas9 Technology” at the O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center Trainee Seminar Series.