Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items – November 2015

  • Announcements:
    • Yanli Ding, MD presented a poster at the Annual ASCP 2015 Meeting in Long Beach California, September 28-30, 2015. Title: “Persistent proteinuria in recurrent focal segmental glomerulosclerosis from arterio-venous fistula recirculation, and improvement with aneurysm repair;” Co-authors are Yanli Ding, MD and Karen Quillen, MD
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    • Atsushi Ebata, PhD, Wolozin Lab, successfully defended his thesis “Development of TDP-43 Granule Inhibitors as Potential Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis/Frontotemporal LobarDegeneration Therapies” on Thursday, November 12th
    • Nancy S. Miller, MD presented: “Ebola Dx and the U.S. clinical laboratory: From practical to practice to promise”, at the BUSM Mini-Symposium – Ebola, The Disease and Immune Privilege, on October 29, held in Hiebert Lounge
    • Dr. Miller also convened the symposium: Vibrios Throw Us a Curve: People, Places and Oysters; and presented “Tales from the Trenches – Vibrio Cases from the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory”, at the 50th Annual Region I Meeting of American Society for Microbiology (ASM) branches, October 20, in Randolph, Massachusetts
    • From Lawreen Connors, PhD Lab:
      • Just received notification of research funding from the The Wildflower Foundation, Inc. in support of our study, “Immunoglobulin Light Chain Amyloid Fibril Formation: Structural Determinants as a Platform for Drug Development”
      • She/they also have an approved service agreement, “Fat Pad Analysis – ALN-TTR-NT-002 Discovery Study, with Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
    • Yue Sun presented three posters at the 2015 Annual ASCP Meeting in Long Beach California, September   28-30, 2015:
      • “Extraosseous Chordoma of Retropharyngeal Space: A Case Report;” Yue Sun, Huihong Xu, and Qing Zhao Zhao 
      • “Periampullary gangliocytic paraganglioma with lymph node involvement: A Case Report;” Yue Sun, David W. Kindelberger, Huihong Xu, and Qing Zhao
      • “Lactobacillusgasseri associated with urinary and surgical wound infection in a renal transplant patient;” Yue Sun, Amitabh Gautam, and Nancy S. Miller
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    • Congratulations to Ivana Delalle, she was the honored speaker at the 2015 Annual New England Society of Pathologists Stanley Robbins lecture on November 17th
    • On Behalf of Dr. Chris Andry, Director of our Master of Arts Program: we are pleased to announce that our proposal has been approved and our Masters Graduate Program will now be entitled; MASTER OF SCIENCE IN PATHOLOGY LABORATORY SCIENCES.
    • Michel Azer, a Masters student in Periodontology doing his research in the Nikolajczyk Lab, was a finalist at the American Academy of Periodontology Balint Orban Award Competition for excellence in basic research on periodontal disease.  Congratulations Michel on being included in this prestigious event!
    • Invited presentation by Nikolajczyk in November 2015: The Obesity Society Oral Presentation, Los Angeles CA, “Metformin counters a pro-inflammatory T cell profile, 2015”
    • Ivana Delalle gave a Grand Rounds lecture in the Pathology Department at UC Davis, California on November 23rd
    • The Mid-Career Faculty Leadership Program is a year-long program that uses experiential and project-based learning to engage participants in 360 evaluation, self-reflection, inter-disciplinary collaboration, broad peer and senior mentoring networks, and the enhancement of transformational education, clinical, research, and strategic leadership skills. Two members of our pathology department, both Sandra Cerda and Dr. Debbie Stearns-Kurosawa, have been selected through this competitive application process to participate in this leadership development program.  The selection committee aims yearly to select high potential individuals with clinical and research expertise and demonstrated commitment to BUMC, who are keen on transforming themselves, BUMC, and healthcare. BRAVO!!
    • Effective January 1, 2016 the following changes will occur:
      • David Kindelberger, MD, will become the Residency Director, replacing Daniel Remick, MD This appointment is pending approval by the appropriate BMC committee
      • Qing (Grace) Zhao, MD, PhD, will become the Director of Surgical Pathology, replacing Dr. Kindelberger
      • We are confident that these changes will strengthen our clinical, research and teaching missions by placing dedicated and motivated pathologists in these leadership positions. Please join me in congratulating Drs. Kindelberger and Zhao on their new roles within the Department.
  • PUBLICATIONS ACCEPTED:
    • Connors LH, Sam F, Skinner M, Salinaro F, Sun F, Ruberg FL, Berk JL, and Seldin DC:  Heart failure due to age-related cardiac amyloid disease associated with wild-type transthyretin:  a prospective, observational cohort study.  Circulation,Accepted Nov 11, 2015
    • Miller, N.S. “The new microbiology and vision of faith: When believing isn’t seeing and vice-versa.” Commentary commissioned by Clinical Chemistry for their 2016 special issue, “Clinical Mass Spectrometry: Achieving Prominence in Laboratory Medicine”
    • Armin Maghsoudlou, Rosana D. Meyer, Kobra Rezazadeh, Emad Arafa, Jeffrey Pudney, Edward Hartsough, Nader Rahimi.  RNF121 inhibits angiogenic growth factor signaling by restricting cell surface expression of VEGFR-2. Traffic, November 2015 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/%28ISSN%291600-0854
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