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2013 Award Winners

Basic Science

First Place:

Novel KIT/CSF1R Inhibitor is Superior to Imantinib in a Spontaneous Mouse Model of Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor (GIST)
Teresa Kim, MD, Michael J. Cavnar, MD, Eric C. Sorenson, MD, Jonathan B. Greer, MD, Noah A. Cohen, MD, Adrian M. Seifert, MD, Megan H. Crawley, BS, Benjamin L. Green, BS, Shan Zeng, MD, PhD,
Ronald P. DeMatteo, MD
MGH

Second Place:

A Novel Approach to Targeted Oncologic Therapy - Co-Culture Viability of Polymer Prodrug Conjugation to Mesenchymal Stem Cells
Kaitlyn Wong, MD, N. Panzarino, MS, Samantha McRae, BS, Richard Arenas, MD,
Sallie Schneider, PhD, T. Emrick, PhD
Baystate Medical Center

Clinical

First Place:

Mortality and Management of Surgical Necrotizing Enterocolitis in the United States
Melissa A. Hull MD¹*, Jeremy G. Fisher MD¹*, Ivan M. Gutierrez MD¹, Brian A. Jones MD¹,
Kuang Horng Kang MD¹, Michael Kenny MA², David Zurakowski PhD¹, Biren P. Modi MD¹,
Jeffrey D. Horbar MD², Tom Jaksic MD, PhD¹
*Co-First Authors ¹Department of Surgery, Children's Hospital Boston, ²Vermont Oxford Network, Burlington, VT

Second Place:

Discriminating Thyroid Nodules in Real Time Using an Integrated Elastic Scattering Biopsy Syringe
Nicholas J. Giordano, Hyunsuk Suh, Eladio Rodriguez-Diaz, Ousama A'amar, Irving J. Bigio, Stephanie L. Lee, Jennifer E. Rosen
Boston University