ACS/NREF-AANS Faculty Career Development Award

The American College of Surgeons (ACS) and the Neurosurgery Research and Education Foundation (NREF) of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) are offering a two-year Faculty Career Development Award to neurological surgeons.

The award is to support the establishment of a new and independent research program in an area of neurological surgery, co-sponsored by the ACS and the NREF. The award is $40,000
per year for each of two years.

The ACS/NREF-AANS Faculty Career Development Award is open to surgeons who ...

are members or candidate members of both the ACS and the AANS; have completed specialty training within the preceding five years and have received a full-time faculty appointment at a US or Canadian accredited medical school.

2007 Faculty Career Development Awardee

Uzma Samadani, MD, PhD
New York University
Project: Sonic Hedgehog Therapy After Lysis of Intracerebral Hemorrhage

Intracranial hemorrhages result in high morbidity and mortality through several mechanisms including disruption of adjacent white matter tracts. Repair of these tracts may be possible through recruitment of neural progenitor cells induced to proliferate, differentiate and function by signal transduction molecules such as sonic hedgehog. We propose to demonstrate that sonic hedgehog can induce proliferation and differentiation of endogenous stem cells in a model of porcine induced intracranial hemorrhage and lysis. The utilization of small molecule therapy to promote restoration of neurologic function after hemorrhage would have profound implications for the treatment of deficits caused by other mechanisms including stroke and trauma.

Applications for the 2009 Faculty Career Development Award will be accepted in
October of 2008. Submission deadline for the 2009 award is November 15, 2008.

Faculty Career Development Award Application

Submit completed applications in October of 2008 to: