SEYMOUR H. COHEN RESEARCH GRANT AWARD
The Seymour R. Cohen Award, was established in 1999, with a bequest by the Cohen family as an award based on the submission of an abstract for the Annual Meeting. Given to an outstanding candidate, who was a citizen of the United States or Canada, and who performed basic science research in the area of pediatric laryngology and/or pediatric neurolaryngology.
Following a discussion with the Cohen Family in 2014, the Council inquired with the Cohen Family of the possibility of modifying the award to a research grant. With the assistance of Dr. Clarence Sasaki, ALA received permission to change award to the Seymour H. Cohen MD Research Grant. Dr. Cohen wish was for this Award only to be used for the funding of research related or applicable to pediatric laryngology and/or pediatric neurolaryngology. During the years, 1999 – 2009, the recipients of the grant was chosen based on the original abstract submission for the annual meeting. Beginning in 2014, research applications were reviewed by the ALA Research Committee and award based on the evaluation results recommended to the Council.
Below is a list of previous recipients of this Grant.
| 1999 | Russell A. Faust, MD, PhD |
| 2000 | Chapman McQueen, MD |
| 2001 | Yolanda D. Heman-Ackah, MD |
| 2009 | Swapna Chandran, MD |
| 2014 | Christopher T. Johnson, MD |
| 2015 | Michael Pitman, MD |
| 2016 | Nicolas-George Katsantonis, MD |
| 2017 | Matthew Clary, MD |
| 2019 | Philip Weissbrod, MD |
| 2020 | Rupali Shah, MD - UNC Encore: Remotely Tracking Patient Voice Outcomes in Real-Time through a Mobile Application Platform |
| 2021 | Ricardo Gottardi, MD - Bioengineered Grafts for Laryngotracheal Reconstruction |
| 2023 | Pranati Pillutla, MD - Evaluation of the efficacy of laryngeal reinnervation techniques |
| 2024 | Laura Matrka, MD - The use of computational fluid dynamics as a tool for the evaluation of laryngotracheal stenosis |
| 2025 | Benjamin Laitman, MD - Longitudinal histologic and multiomic examination of early fetal laryngeal development |
ALA/ALVRE RESEARCH GRANT AWARD
The ALA/ALVRE Research Grant award was created to support basic, translational, or clinical research projects in laryngology (voice, airway, swallowing), outcomes, and related subjects, and should lead to furthering the fields of laryngology or neurolaryngology.
Research supported by this award should be specifically directed toward the pathogenesis, pathophysiology, diagnosis, prevention, or treatment of diseases, disorders, or conditions of the larynx and related structures and topics and may be either basic or clinical/translational in approach. While not specifically required, proposals which aim to introduce new knowledge and methodology from other disciplines to research in laryngology or neurolaryngology, or which demonstrate collaborative effort with members of other related disciplines are encouraged.
Below is a list of previous recipients of this Grant.
| 2010 | Marvin Fried, MD |
| 2012 | Jennifer Long, MD, PhD |
| 2013 | J. Pieter Noordzij, MD x |
| 2015 | Gregory Dion, MD |
| 2016 | Alexander Hillel, MD |
| 2017 | VyVy N. Young, MD x |
| 2018 | Aaron Johnson, PhD |
| 2019 | Daniel Fink, MD |
| 2020 | R Jun Lin, MD - Comparison of Transcriptomic Changes in Idiopathic Subglottic Stenosis and Normal Respiratory Mucosa Using High Throughput RNA Sequencing |
| 2021 | Anais Rameau, MD, MPhil, MSc - A Deep Learning Pipeline for the Automated Classification of Laryngeal Disease in Laryngoscopy Videos |
| 2022 | Benjamin Laitman, MD, PhD - Characterization of human vocal fold tissue heterogeneity with single-nuclei RNA-sequencing |
| 2023 | Matthew Hoffman, MD - Artificial cricoarytenoid joint prosthesis for treatment of posterior glottic stenosis |
| 2024 | Amy Lustig, MD - Case study outcomes and expert perceptions of voice preservation options in head and neck cancer care |
| 2025 | Pranati Pillutla, MD - Characterizing the timeline of laryngeal denervation and reinnervation |
X – funds returned
POST-GRADUATE MEMBER RESEARCH GRANT
Below is a list of previous recipients of this Grant.
| 2025 | Bharat Panuganti - Assessment of safety and residence time of sustained-release triamcinolone formulation in poly lactic-co-glycolic acid (PLGA) microspheres in the rat subglottic submucosal compartment. |