March 2010
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items
- Bryan Belikoff MD/PhD Candidate, Remick Lab, who has just started as a pre-doc on the hematology training grant, has just won a travel award to a national meeting. The committee can feel good about selecting a great applicant who has already paid off dividends.
- Dr. Carmen Sarita-Reyes has just been appointed member of the Education Committee of the Society of Pediatric Pathology beginning March 2010 for a three year period.
- Dr. Michael Roehrl received a 1-year Junior Investigator Institutional Research Grant from the American Cancer Society. The title of the grant is “Tissue Proteomic Discovery of Biomarkers of Colorectal Adenocarcinoma”.
- Dr. Ivana Delalle has been invited to lecture on March 30. She will be guest of Professor Charles Duyckaerts at Hospital La Salpetriere, Paris, France.
- Dr. Lija Joseph has been appointed as an academy advisor at the BU school of medicine. She is also coordinating a session at the APC national meeting at seattle this july. “Diagnostic Rotation: Time for a new requirement”
- Madhu Jagannathan PhD candidate been accepted to do an oral presentation at the 97th Annual Meeting of The American Association of Immunologists, May 7th-11th in Baltimore, MD.
Publications – Accepted
- Michael Greene Phd Candidate abstract titled: “Histopathologic and Serologic Evidence for a Role of the Molecular Chaperone Clusterin in Amyloidotic Cardiomyopathy.” has been accepted for presentation at the XIIth International Symposium on Amyloidosis April 18th-21st in Rome, Italy. In addition he has been awarded The Chip Miller Memorial Junior Research Travel Award by the Amyloidosis Foundation.
- Dr. Remick has a Paper accepted in the journal SHOCK. “UNTREATED TYPE 1 DIABETES INCREASES SEPSIS-INDUCED MORTALITY WITHOUT INDUCING A PRE-LETHAL CYTOKINE RESPONSE”
- Marcin F. Osuchowski,*† Florin L. Craciun,* Elizabeth Schuller,* Corneliu Sima ,‡ Robert Gyurko,‡ and Daniel G. Remick* Departments of *Pathology and ‡Laboratory Medicine and Periodontology and Oral Biology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, and †Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Experimental and Clinical Traumatology, Vienna, Austria
- Sun-Young Oh PhD from the Kurosawa Lab had a publication accepted to the Journal of Neurochemistry this month. J Neurochem. 2010 Jan 20 [Epub ahead of print] “Cell-type Dependent Modulation of Notch Signaling by Amyloid Precursor Protein. Oh SY, Chen CD, Abraham CR.”
- Quadfecta – 4 submitted Abstracts 4 Oral Presentations at the Environmental Biology Conference.
- A trifecta refers to selecting three winners in a row. So while quadfecta is not a word, it accurately describes the outcome of the abstracts submitted to the 2010 Experimental Biology Meeting in Anaheim this April. Four Abstracts were submitted to the meeting from the Remick Lab and all four were selected for Oral Presentations. Here are the details:
- “Oral Tolerance Reduces Pulmonary Inflammation in a Cockroach Antigen Murine Model of Allergic Asthma.”
Louis Vaickus, Jacqueline Bouchard, Jiyoun Kim, Sudha Natarajan, Daniel G. Remick - “Binge drinking exacerbates asthmatic-like pulmonary inflammation in cockroach-allergen (CRA) induced allergic mice”
Jacqueline Bouchard, Jiyoun Kim, Louis Vaickus, Daniel Remick - “Adenosine A2B Receptor Expression by Myeloid Cells Mediates Airway Inflammation in Asthma”
Bryan Belikoff, Louis Vaickus, Michail Sitkovsky, and Daniel Remick - “Antibodies to TNF-α Soluble Receptors Exacerbate Airway Inflammation in a Mouse Model of Asthma”
Jiyoun Kim, Louis Vaickus, Jacqueline Bouchard, Elizabeth Schuller, Daniel Remick
- “Oral Tolerance Reduces Pulmonary Inflammation in a Cockroach Antigen Murine Model of Allergic Asthma.”
- A trifecta refers to selecting three winners in a row. So while quadfecta is not a word, it accurately describes the outcome of the abstracts submitted to the 2010 Experimental Biology Meeting in Anaheim this April. Four Abstracts were submitted to the meeting from the Remick Lab and all four were selected for Oral Presentations. Here are the details:
Publications – Published
- A manuscript by Kazem Azadzoi, M.D. et al entitled “Oxidative Stress and Neurodegeneration in Penile Ischemia” has been published in the March issue of the British Journal of Urology 105: 404-410, 2010.