NBTS is committed to supporting brain tumor physicians and research that directs therapies to our patients. In pursuit of that goal, the American Association of Neurological Surgeons/Congress of Neurological Surgeons (AANS/CNS) Section on Tumors is collaborating with NBTS to fund a translational research grant. This $50,000 award will be given to a faculty/attending neurosurgeon with the best proposal for translational research in the area of brain tumor investigation and treatment.

The successful grant applicant will be announced at the AANA/CNS meeting in October 2009. For more information regarding this grant, please visit: www.tumorsection.org/awards/nbtsApplication.pdf 

2007 and 2008 Research Award Recipients 

2008 Recipient
Clark Chen, MD, PhD
Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Boston, Massachusetts
Promoter methylation in glioblastoma multiforme-a paradigm beyond MethylGuannine-DNA MethylTransferase (MGMT)

2007 Recipient
Stephen Skirboll,
Stanford University
Stanford, California
The colony-forming antibody cell array: A novel screening strategy to further identify cancer stem cells in human malignant gliomas