W. Dwayne Lawrence Award for Excellence in Diagnostic Surgical Pathology
Dr. Kamaljeet Singh was awarded the 2022 W. Dwayne Lawrence Award for Excellence in Diagnostic Surgical Pathology.
Dr. Kamaljeet Singh was awarded the 2022 W. Dwayne Lawrence Award for Excellence in Diagnostic Surgical Pathology.
Undergraduate Student Andrew George has been awarded the Clapp Prize for Outstanding Senior Honors Thesis in Biochemistry for contributions to the cancer immunotherapy hyper-progression model & molecular signatures.
Please join me in congratulating Dr. Abigail Alexander on being awarded for the second time in a row, the American Academy of Neuropathologists (AANP)Trainee Travel Award for her research entitled "Cortical-sparing Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CS-CTE): Categorizing a Distinct Pathological Subtype of CTE" at the 98th Annual Meeting in Bonita Springs Florida. This is a prestigious award which brings high honor to our department on a national level.
Sophia Zheng performed her undergraduate senior thesis work in the Boekelheide Lab. She received a Senior Biology Prize for Academic Excellence in Biological Sciences awarded to a handful of undergraduate seniors concentrating in Biology, in part for this work.
Development of a Proof-of-Principle MCF-7 and HepaRG 3D-2D Co-culture Platform for Toxicity Testing
Sophia Zheng
Advisors: Dr. Kim Boekelheide, MD, PhD and Dr. Blanche Ip, PhD
Dr. Wafik El-Deiry has received the Inventor of the Year Award from Brown University. The award was presented to Dr. El-Deiry by Drs. Jill Pipher (Vice President for Research), Richard Locke (Provost) & Neil Veloso.
Dr. Ece Uzun, Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine has received the the Karen T. Romer Award for Excellence in Advising.
Legoretta Cancer Center Director, Dr. Wafik El-Deiry, testified before the Rhode Island House of Representatives on Bill 8008 regarding Data Sharing in Medical Research for all Rhode Islanders which was introduced by Representative Mia Akerman.
Please view the video below:
Honored to present the opening lecture at the @hopkinskimmel 4th Quarter Cancer Biology Course on March 28, 2022.
https://twitter.com/weldeiry/status/1508494738990768138
Kelsey Huntington was awarded the NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (#NRSA) Individual Predoctoral Fellowship (#F31) by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) on her first-round grant application titled “Small-molecule Inhibition of Glycogen Synthase Kinase-3 Sensitizes Colorectal Cancer Cells and Stimulates Immune Cells to Bolster Immune Cell-mediated Tumor Cytotoxicity” that will fund the remainder of her PhD here at Brown University.
The El-Deiry Lab and its collaborators will have 23 presentations at the upcoming AACR annual meeting from April 8-13, 2022 in New Orleans, LA.
https://twitter.com/weldeiry/status/1504132492953067521?s=20&t=Gm0tl7Xe0TgmjaL8oEQ8CA