Assistant Professor Daniel Spade, PhD, receives pilot award from the Center for Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) for Reproductive Health at Women and Infants Hospital, for the project, "Identification of sperm RNAs that predict ICSI outcomes." Additional information about the COBRE for Reproductive Health can be found here.
Assistant Professor (Research), Dipak Raj, PhD, receives new R01 for Malaria vaccine studies. Additional project information can be found here.
Dr. Thomas Bartnikas, Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, publishes a high-profile article titled, "Manganese transporter Slc30a10 controls physiological manganese excretion and toxicity" in JCI.
Full text article: https://www.jci.org/articles/view/129710
Assistant Professor (Research), Christian Nixon, MD, PhD, receives new NIH R01 for malaria vaccine studies. Additional project information can be found here.
It is a great honor as we congratulate Sir Nicholas Wald, MBBS, DSc, Consultant of our Division of Medical Screening and Special Testing of Women & Infants Hospital and Adjunct Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine of Alpert Medical School of Brown University, elected to the prestigious National Academy of Medicine (NAM). You may learn more about the honor and the citation of Sir Wald through abstract of NAM news release below. The full news release is available at https://nam.edu/national-academy-of-medicine-elects-100-new-members/
Early-career researcher Jessica Plavicki is advancing understanding of how environmental contaminants interfere with heart and brain development — the formidable task of establishing her new lab should prove fruitful for decades to come.
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Dr. Kimberle Chapin was the Lead Torch Bearer at the 6th annual C is for Cure: A Water Fire Lighting for Rhode Island Defeats Hep C on Saturday, August 3, 2019.
Lena Joesch-Cohen was awarded the Biology Undergraduate Education Senior Biology Prize for Academic Excellence in the Biological Sciences and Shoshana Rosenzweig was awarded the Center for Computational Molecular Biology Honors Thesis Award.
Both students were co-mentored by Drs. Uzun (Pathology & Laboratory Medicine) and Morrow (Molecular, Cellular Biology Biochemistry) in their honors thesis in Computational Biology.