August 2010

Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items

Announcements:

  • Ivana Delalle, MD; PhD has been promoted to Associate Professor
  • Drs. Shinichiro Kurosawa and Deborah J Stearns-Kurosawa were awarded a NIH/NIAID sub-contract from ProThera Biologics (Pawtucket, RI) from the STTR proposal “Role of Inter-alpha Inhibitors in Anthrax Intoxication”.   This is a collaborative project with Dr. Yow-Pin Lim of Prothera Biologics and Dr. Steven Opal of the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.
  • Carl O’Hara, M.D., has been appointed as the Vice Chair of Education
  • Antonio de las Morenas, M.D., has been appointed as the Vice Chair of Diversity and Faculty Development
  • Sandra Cerda, M.D. has been appointed as the Director of the Pathology Residency Program
  • Daniel Remick, M.D., has been elected as a Council Member for the Association of Pathology Chairs and Chair of the Advocacy Committee
  • Carmen Sarita-Reyes, M.D. has been appointed as Fourth Year Clerkship Director in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
  • Michael Roehrl, MD; PhD had received the Young Investigator Award, Human Proteome Organization (HUPO) and International Forum for Proteomics
  • A T32 training grant was funded, T32GM86308, “Immunobiology of Trauma”, Principal Investigator Daniel Remick, M.D. This grant will provide 2 years of training in basic science laboratories to train the next generation of physician scientist
  • Ivana Delalle, MD; PhD has just been awarded an NIH Grant; R21 MH86079-01 (Delalle, Ivana):“Exosomal and cell-class specific miRNA profiles in bipolar disorder and schizophrenia”
  • Four new faculty members have either recently arrived, or will be arriving shortly. Here is information about the newest members of our Department.
    • Evrim Erdogan, Ph.D. The Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine of Boston University School of Medicine is pleased to announce the appointment of Evrim Erdogan, Ph.D. as an Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. Dr. Erdogan received her Ph.D. in Clinical-Bioanalytical Chemistry from Cleveland State University. This was followed by a post-doctoral fellowship in clinical chemistry at the ARUP laboratories at the University of Utah. Dr. Erdogan is a diplomat of the American Board of Clinical Chemistry. She has been appointed as the Co-Director of Clinical Chemistry in the Department of Laboratory Medicine of Boston Medical Center.
    • Tiffany Mellot, Ph.D. The Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine is pleased to announce the appointment of Tiffany Mellot, Ph.D., as a Research Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. Dr. Mellot received a B.S. in biochemistry/molecular biology from the University of Pittsburgh, graduating magna cum laude. She received her Ph.D. in pathology and neuroscience from Boston University followed by a post-doctoral fellowship with Dr. Blusztajn in our department. She has published numerous papers examining the effects of choline supplementation on neuronal development.
    • Marianna Ruzinova, M.D., Ph.D. The Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine is pleased to announce the recruitment of Marianna Ruzinova, M.D., Ph.D. as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Ruzinova received a degree in biochemistry from Swarthmore College. She obtained her M.D., Ph.D. from Weill Cornell Medical College and then completed training in anatomic and clinical pathology at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital where she was Chief Resident.  She is board certified in both clinical and anatomic pathology. Dr. Ruzinova recently completed a hematopathology fellowship, also at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She will become the Medical Director of Clinical Hematology and will also participate in signing hematopathology and surgical pathology cases.
    • Susan Winandy, Ph.D., First Bucher Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. The Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine is pleased to announce Susan Winandy, Ph.D. as the first Nancy L. R. Bucher Assistant Professor. Dr. Winandy obtained a Bachelor’s of Science degree from the University of Connecticut and a Ph.D. in Biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Following a post-doctoral fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical school she assumed a position as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology – Immunology at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Dr. Winandy has been active in teaching and has served on several thesis committees as well as being an advisor to several students. Her teaching excellence was recognized by the receipt of the Outstanding Teacher for lectures to medical students in the Immunology section. Dr. Winandy’s research investigates how the molecule Ikaros regulates the immune response. She has served on study sections for the National Institutes of Health and currently is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Immunology.
  • Congratulations on passing the Qualifying Exams!
    • Rituparna Moitra
  • David Stepien, incoming MD/PhD student has just been elected to be the MD PhD Student Executive Committee member for the next two years
  • New Student Orientation Day is Tuesday, August 31st.  I would like to invite you for a casual “Meet & Greet” with our new PhD students from 2:30 – 3:30 PM in the 4th floor Conference Room here at 670 Albany. Why don’t you plan to join us: MARK YOUR CALENDARS!!!

Presentations:

  • Michael Roehrl, MD; PhD, has been invited to present at the HUPO 2010 International Meeting, Sydney, Australia, September 2010; “Glycoproteomics of lung cancer”
  • Heather Cohen, PhD candidate, Trojanowska Lab will be presenting a poster at the 11th International Workshop on Scleroderma Research; Boston, Massachusetts; August 1-4, 2010. Her abstract title is: “Characterization of ECM gene expression in a Fli1 knockdown mouse model of fibrosis”
  • American Journal of Clinical Pathology Editorial Board has named as one of the 10 finalists for the AJCP Resident Research Symposium Award to be held at the annual meeting of the ASCP October 27-31, 2010; “Prediction Of Final Grade In Adenocarcinoma Of Endometrium Using P53, Ki-67 and Zeb1 Immunostains In Preoperative Biopsies” by resident Marier Hernandez-Perez, MD and Antonio De Las Morenas, MD The competition is scheduled for Saturday, October 30
  • Daniel Remick, M.D., presented Grand Rounds at Temple University in the Department of Pathology “Sepsis and the Complex Inflammatory Response”.

Publications-ACCEPTED:

  • Accepted in Shock, “Adenosine Negative Feedback On A2A Adenosine Receptors Mediates Hypo-Responsiveness In Chronically Septic Mice” Bryan Belikoff, Stephen Hatfield, and Michail Sitkovsky, and Daniel G. Remick
  • Accepted in the American Journal of Pathology “Assessing Pulmonary Pathology by Detailed Examination of Respiratory Function,” Louis J. Vaickus, Jacqueline Bouchard, Jiyoun Kim, Sudha Natarajan and Daniel G. Remick
  • Dr. Karen Quillen has had a paper accepted for publication in Transfusion: Quillen K, Medrano C, Adams S, Peterson B, Hackett JA, Leitman SF, Klein HG, Stroncek DF. “Screening plateletpheresis donors for HLA antibodies on two high throughput platforms and correlation with recipient outcome”

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