Layra Cintrón-Rivera, a 4th year Pathobiology graduate student in the Plavicki Lab has won the Charles Kuhn Graduate Award in Disease Pathogenesis. This award recognizes the best oral presentation made by a graduate student at the Pathobiology Retreat.
Dr. Jonathan Kurtis is a senior author on the paper titled "A newly characterized malaria antigen on erythrocyte and merozoite surfaces induces parasite inhibitory antibodies" published in the Journal of Experimental Medicine (JEM). Please see the link below to view the article.
https://rupress.org/jem/article/218/9/e20200170/212528/A-newly-characterized-malaria-antigen-on
Dr. Jonathan Kurtis has received a Warren Alpert Foundation Research Grant titled mRNA vaccines for falciparum malaria. The total award amount is $4.5M.
Dr. Suzanne De La Monte, Chief of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Providence VA Medical Center has received two R01 Awards from the National Institute of Health (NIH). See below:
Congratulations #eldeirylab members Shuai Zhao, Kelsey Huntington, Sofia Leaf, & Lindsey Carlsen on 4 exciting cancer research publications https://oncotarget.com/archive/v12/i20/
See the presentation on twitter at: https://twitter.com/brownucancer/status/1442945021951365122?s=11
Dr. Wafik S. El-Deiry from The Brown University as well as The Lifespan Health System said, “Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second leading cause of cancer death worldwide and its incidence has been steadily rising in recent decades, with nearly 2 million new cases diagnosed around the world in 2020."
Please see the full article at https://scienmag.com/oncotarget-comparison-of-transcriptomic-cytokine-re...
Dr. Wafik El-Deiry has been named the Associate Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Cancer Research. AJCR welcomes all qualified researchers and physicians who are interested in joining this effort of promoting
open access to medical scholarly journals.
Dr. Geralyn Messerlian has been elected Secretary (2021-2024) - Endocrine Division for the American Academy for Clinical Chemistry (AACC)
Below is the link to the article:
https://www.jci.org/articles/view/144898
In collaboration with Barbara Stonestreet at WIH, while the work was focused on hypoxic-ischemic brain damage in neonates, this paper reported the major findings of the neuroprotective effects of protein therapeutics in adult and aging animals with ischemic stroke.
This collaboration with many talented scientists took more than 8 years to complete.
The Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine successfully passed the College of American Pathologist (CAP) laboratory accreditation inspection on July 20, 2021.