Dr. Mohammad Quddus has been appointed to the CMFA Committee at the Alpert Medical School. He was nominated by Dr. James Sung and after a mail-in ballot vote by the faculty was elected to serve.
Yvonne Rericha, a doctoral student under the mentorship of Center Director Robyn Tanguay, Ph.D., at the Oregon State University SRP Center will travel to Rhode Island to work with Robbert Creton, Ph.D., and Jessica Plavicki, Ph.D., at the Brown University SRP Center. Rericha studies zebrafish to investigate the mechanisms by which PFAS and PAHs harm development. Through her externship, she will apply advanced imaging techniques to examine how these exposures affect the development and integrity of blood vessels in the zebrafish brain. Specifically, she will compare the effects of a PFAS compound called perfluorononanoic acid and a PAH compound called chrysene, which are commonly found at Superfund sites.
Link: https://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/supported/centers/srp/training/donnelly/2020winners/index.cfm
Over the past year, I noticed several books written by giants in our field, people everyone knows, people I am honored to know personally. I was interested in what they wrote, and I thought their books would be of general interest to The Cancer Letter community.
Please visit the link below:
https://cancerletter.com/book-review/20210806_3/
The Cancer Letter (TLC) - Inside information on cancer research and drug development.
Please download the summer issue:
https://cancerletter.com/download/41552/
Persistence, Agility and Cancer Research. The Medicine Mentors podcast with Dr. Wafik El-Diery.
https://themedicinementors.libsyn.com/persistence-agility-cancer-research-with-dr-wafik-el-deiry
Michelle Kossack, PhD, a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Plavicki Lab, received a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship (Parent F32) from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
Could Rhode Island become the next cancer research hub?
With plans to apply for a NCI designation, a partnership between Brown University and local hospitals could attract funding and patients to Greater Providence.
Below is the link to the article in the Boston Globe:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/07/30/metro/could-rhode-island-become-next-cancer-research-hub/
Great to see Dr. Attila Seyhan in the NY Times Article-Bio Bonds Would Use Wall St. Tools to Fund Medical Research.
@BrownUCancer, @BrownMedicine, @BrownUResearch, @BrownOncology, #eldeirylab, @BrownPathology, @RIHospital
Tip Pongsuvareeyakul, MD, has completed her 9-month International Visiting Fellowship in Gynecologic Pathology.She has returned to Chiang-Mai University College of Medicine as Assistant Professor of Pathology in July.
Janell A. Carter, MD, PhD, has completed her 2-year pathology research fellowship sponsored by Brown University Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine. She was recruited to be the inaugural Division Director of Perinatal Pathology of Phoenix Children’s Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona.
Bassam Aswad, MD, Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Clinician Educator and Dongfen Chen, MD, Instructor in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Clinician Educator have been appointed to the faculty at the Providence VA Medical Center.