June 2015

 

Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items – June 2015

 Announcements:

  • BMC “Be Exceptional” Awards 2015, which recognize outstanding BMC staff who demonstrate exceptional performance and dedication to fulfilling BMC’s mission and four QUEST goals: Quality, Efficiency, Satisfaction, and Total Revenue. “Chosen by a committee made up of leaders from around the hospital, they were selected for their exceptional performance, initiative and teamwork, and for embodying our RESPECT behavioral attributes. These staffers reflect BMC on its best day, every day. Congratulations to the following individuals and teams!” Two members of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine are among this year’s recipients which were awarded on June 17th in Hiebert Lounge.:
    • Sherri Dagger, one of our Pathology Histotechnologist, for her exceptional performance and dedication to fulfilling BMC’s mission and QUEST goals
    • Neil O’Neil, Laboratory Administration Operations, “this appropriately recognizes his outstanding service to BMC”
  • Shinichiro Kurosawa has accepted an invitation to serve as a member of the Host Interactions with Bacterial Pathogens Study Section at NIH at the Center for Scientific Review, for the term beginning July 01, 2015 and ending June 30, 2019
  • Daniel Remick was in Brazil last month for the 12th Annual Forum on Sepsis at the Latin-American Institute for Sepsis in Sao Paulo, Brazil:
    • Remick gave the Keynote Address at the Forum; Pathophysiologic Mechanisms in Septic Shock
    • Remick also presented at the Thematic Session – Therapeutic Interventions; Do Inhibitory Immunoglobulins Decrease Pathogen Killing and Increase Sepsis Mortality
    • He spoke again at the Thematic Session, Special Situations in Sepsis; Brain Injury and Pneumonia Prevention
  • Nader Rahimi, PhD was awarded a R21 grant from NIH/NCI entitled “IGPR-1 in colon cancer chemotherapy”. The overall of goal of this research is to study the role of IGPR-1 in colon cancer and chemo treatment. IGPR-1 is a novel protein identified in the Rahimi laboratory. IGPR-1 represents a new class of cell surface receptors involved in cell-cell recognition and mediates tumor angiogenesis, a process by which new blood vessels are recruited to growing tumor.
  • Ivana Delalle just presented an abstract at the International Conference on “The long and the short of non-coding RNAs” in Greece, June 14-19, 2015.
  • Delalle also presented “Exosomal microRNAs as biomarkers for bipolar disorder and schizophrenia” Jason Choi1, Andre Fischer 2,3, Farahnaz Sananbenesi3, and Ivana Delalle1. 1Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA, 2Goettingen University, Goettingen, Germany, 3German Center for Degenerative Diseases (DZNE), Goettingen, Germany.  

NEW FACES:

 

  • New Residents:
    • Entering PGY 1s

      • Israa Laklouk, MD   Laklouk
        • Relocating from San Francisco, CA
        • Graduated from University of Tripoli in 2008
      • Mahmoud Soliman, MD  Soliman
        • Relocating from Grand Forks, ND
        • Graduated from University of Cairo in 2004


    • Transferring PGY 2s
      • Lei Li, MD  Li
        • Transferring from residency at Saint Barnabas Medical Center
        • Graduated from Xuzhou Medical College – China in 2000
      • Ram Al-Sabti, MD   Ram Al-Sabti2

        • Transferring from residency at Case Western
        • Graduated from University of Baghdad in 2009
  • Kurosawa Lab:
    • Annalyn Brown is a STaRS summer student (Summer Training as Research Scholar) in our lab and her project is about how inflammation alters susceptibility of cells to bacterial toxins.  Specifically she’ll investigate whether activation of TLR4 increases Gb3 receptor expression for Shiga toxins on endothelial cells.  Annalyn is an undergraduate student at the University of the Virgin Islands and we’re pleased to have her in our lab this summer.
    • Evan Catudal is a Master’s student in the Pathology program with experience as a medical technologist.  His thesis project is a collaborative effort between the Kurosawa and Remick labs to identify contributions of coagulation pathways to enhanced survival of mice after mild traumatic brain injury and pneumoniahasis
    • Greg Hall is a licensed veterinarian in the PhD program with interests in animal model development and development of disease pathology.  He will be working in the Kurosawa Lab on animal models of thrombotic microangiopathy for his thesis project.  joined the Kurosawa Lab coming after his first year in the PIBS Program
  • Remick Lab:
    • Gina Ellsworth, a science/biology teacher at Haverhill High School is a summer intern with the American Association of Immunologists, where she is learning laboratory techniques in the Remick Lab to create a hands -on activity and curriculum of immunology.  This activity will be demonstrated at the National Association of Biology Teachers conference in November and the curriculum will be posted to the AAI website by Spring 2016. Gina is working with postdoc Evan Chiswick, PhD.
    • Alejandro Sanoja is a rising senior from the University of Florida. He is a member of the Summer Training as Research Scholars (STaRS) program at BU. Alejandro’s STaRS internship in the Remick Lab will be with Terry Hsieh, MD/PhD candidate and focuses on investigating immune priming in a mouse model
  • Summer Training as Research Scholars Program.
    • STaRS is designed to promote access to graduate education for talented undergraduates from minority groups traditionally underrepresented in the biomedical sciences:  African-American, Hispanic,  Native American/Native Alaskan, and Pacific Islander/Native Hawaiian.  STaRS is sponsored by the Division of Graduate Medical Sciences, a recognized leader in graduate education and biomedical research.
    • STaRS is a dynamic and focused program that is designed specifically for the enhancement of skills required for successful entrance and completion of a graduate program or an MD/PhD program in the biomedical sciences.
    • STaRS offers motivated and academically talented students a valuable opportunity to confirm a strong interest in doctoral studies particularly in the areas of heart, lung and blood research.

 

  • Castle Graduation Dinner Celebration 2015:

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Publications ACCEPTED:

  • Emad Arafa, Philip Bondzie, Kobra Rezazadeh, Rosana D Meyer, Edward Hartsough, Joel Henderson, John H. Schwartz, Vipul Chitalia, Nader Rahimi. TMIGD1 is a novel adhesion molecule that protects epithelial cells from oxidative cell injury. American Journal of Pathology, 2015 http://ajp.amjpathol.org/ Emad Arafa & Philip Bondzie are co-primary authors