Jeffrey Bailey, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, received $166,742 for “Tracking the flow of malaria parasites and drug resistance within the DRC and across its borders” from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
Michelle Kossack, graduate student in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, received $66,390 for “Vascularization of the ovary and its contribution to oocyte health” from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). Mentor is Jessica Plavicki.
Amanda E. Ruiz, graduate student in Pathobiology, received $150,000 for the “Whole Proteome Differential Screening for the Identification of Novel Schistosomiasis Japonica Vaccine Candidates,” an HHMI Gilliam Fellowship for Advanced Study from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Mentor is Jonathan Kurtis.
Lauchlan Fellow Elizabeth Arslanian, MD and departmental faculty have 3 abstracts accepted for presentation at the United States & Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP) in March 2022.
The Cancer Center at Brown was renamed the Legorreta Cancer Center at Brown University because of the donation by Pablo G. Legorreta P’21 and Almudena Legorreta P’21.
https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2021/10/corporation-accepts-104...
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 has received a Warren Alpert Foundation Research Grant titled mRNA vaccines for falciparum malaria. The total award amount is $4.5M.
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. 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:
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...