August 2008

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Meet Our New Residents who began July 1st

  • Opoku Adjapong, MD from the University of Michigan Medical School
  • Katherine J. Downey, MD from the University of Arizona College of Medicine
  • Stephen B. Hammond, MD from the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland
  • Marier Hernandez-Perez, MD from the Universidad Central de Venezuela – Luis Razetti

Coming on September 1st – – Our New PhD and MA Graduate students:

PhD Candidates:

  • Dominic Beal, BS in Pathology; MS in Immunology
  • Atsushi Ebata, BS in Animal Sciences
  • Tricia Kao, BS in Biology; MS in Pharmaceutical Sciences
  • Ritu Moitra, BS in Zoology; MS
  • Sri Srinivasan, BS in Botany; MS in Biochemistry

Masters Candidates:

  • Catherine Forant, BS in Biology

Grad Students Passing Qualifying Exams:

  • Bryan Belikoff, PhD/MD candidate, Remick Lab
  • Aditi Gurkar, PhD candidate, Vaziri Lab
  • Lou Vaickus, PhD/MD candidate, Remick Lab

Core Committee has voted to approve the Experimental Pathology Core:

  • Our official title is “Experimental Pathology Laboratory Research Core” – known as Ex+
  • Chris Andry is the new Scientific Director of Ex+
  • Tom Christensen is our department’s representative member of the Core Advisory Committee

Publications:

  • Gibney GT, Panhuysen CIM, So JCC, Ma ESK, Ha SY, Li CK, Lee ACW, Li CK, Yuen HL, Lau YL, Johnson DM, Farrell JJ, Bisbee AB, Farrer LA, Steinberg MH, Chan LC, Chui DHK. Variation and heritability of Hb F and F-cells among b-thalassemia heterozygotes in Hong Kong. American Journal of Hematology 83: 458-464, June 2008.
  • Chen ZY, Luo H-Y, Basran RK, Hsu T-H, Mang DWH, Nuntakarn L, Rosenfield CG, Patrinos GP, Hardison RC, Steinberg MH, Chui DHK. A T>G transversion at NT -567 upstream of HBG2 in a GATA-1 binding motif is associated with elevated Hb F. Molecular and Cellular Biology 28: 4386-4393, July 2008.
  • Natarajan S, Remick DG: The ELISA Standard Save: Calculation of sample concentrations in assays with a failed standard curve, J Immunol Methods 2008, 336:242-245

Abstracts:

  • TWO DAY NOTICE: IMMUNO-INFLAMMATORY MANIFESTATIONS OF MORTALITY IN CHRONIC SEPSIS M.F. Osuchowski, F.L. Craciun, E.R. Schuller, D.G. Remick. Presented at the 31st Annual Shock Society Meeting, Cologne Germany
  • EFFECTS OF CO-MORBIDITIES IN SEPSIS: CECAL LIGATION AND PUNCTURE (CLP) IN DIABETIC MICE FL Craciun, MF Osuchowski, ER Schuller, R Gyurko, DG Remick. Presented at the 31st Annual Shock Society Meeting, Cologne Germany
  • NEAR INFRARED DYES VERSUS CHROMOGENIC SUBSTRATES IN CTOKINE ELISAS Elizabeth Schuller, Daniel Remick. Presented at the 31st Annual Shock Society Meeting, Cologne Germany
  • DELAYED ADDITION OF DEXAMETHASONE FAILS TO REDUCE PRO-INFLAMMATORY CYTOKINES, D. Horton and D.G. Remick. Presented at the 31st Annual Shock Society Meeting, Cologne Germany
  • OSTEOSCLEROTIC/MYELOFIBROTIC CHRONIC MYELOGENOUS LEUKEMIA (CML) AT PRESENTATION: A RARE AND POSSIBLY UNIQUE SUBSET OF CML Walther Pfeifer. To be presented at the XXVII International Congress of the International Academy of Pathology, Athens, Greece
  • PHOSPHORYLATION STATUS OF THE RETINOBLASTOMA PROTEIN PREDICTS SURVIVAL IN RITUXAN-TREATED FOLLICULAR LYMPHOMAS Walther Pfeifer. To be presented at the XXVII International Congress of the International Academy of Pathology, Athens, Greece

Grant News:

  • BOSTON July 1, 2008. Seshi Sompuram PhD and Steven Bogen MD PhD were awarded an NIH grant entitled “Paraprotein-specific detection and quantification in clinical gammopathies”. The grant is from the National Cancer Institute, in the amount of $145,728, and is for testing the feasibility of using combinatorial peptide libraries in creating unique probes for characterizing paraproteins and the cells that secrete them.
  • Jan Krzysztof Blusztajn, PhD was awarded a grant for “Juvenile trophic factors for the prevention and treatment of hippocampal aging,” in the amount of $390,191
  • A grant was recently awarded to Cyrus Vaziri, PhD, for “A Novel Role for the Fanconi Anemia Pathway in Replication of B[a]P-Adducted DNA”, in the amount of $329,063

Awards:

  • Daniel Remick, M.D. is the recipient of the 2008 Shock Society’s Distinguish Service Award. You may stop by his office to see the lovely plaque.
  • Daniel Remick, M.D. was elected President of the Shock Society and will assume these duties in June, 2009.

Invited Presentations:

  • Pathology of Systemic Inflammation: Sepsis as an exemplar Daniel G. Remick, presented at the 2008 American Society of Investigative Pathologists Summer Academy, Washington D.C.
  • Multiplex Proteomics in Sepsis for Class Prediction Daniel G. Remick, presented at the 31st Annual Shock Society Meeting, Cologne Germany
  • Stressors in Pathology Residency Lija Joseph, presented at the Annual Meeting of Association of Pathology Chairs, PRODS section, Colorado Springs, CO

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