December 2010

Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items

Announcements:

  • During the recent ASCP Meeting and the Resident Research Symposium Award 2010 in San Francisco, CA our resident Marier Hernandez-Perez M.D’s project “PREDICTION OF FINAL GRADE IN ADENOCARCINOMA OF ENDOMETRIUM USING P53, KI-67 AND ZEB1 IMMUNOSTAINS IN PREOPERATIVE BIOPSIES” was in the 10 finalists and received a Honorable Mention from the judges.  She did this project with Dr. Antonio de las Morenas.
  • The College of American Pathologists has appointed Dr. Martin Kroll as a Representative LIAISON to the ISO TC 212 Working Group 2 on Reference Systems
  • This year Martin Kroll, MD has been serving on the Editorial Board of the journal entitled:  Metabolic Syndrome and Related Disorders
  • Michael H. Roehrl, M.D., Ph.D., will be the Course Director of a newly developed postgraduate course offered by the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP).The new USCAP Short Course entitled “Systems Pathology: An Introduction to Omic Approaches in Modern Personalized Pathology” will be offered during the annual meetings of the USCAP, starting with the spring 2012 Vancouver meeting
  • Manisha Mehta, MD, first year pathology resident was awarded $4,500 from Mallory Research Fund to study the role of Immunoglobulin containing and Proline rich Receptor-1(IGPR-1) in lung cancer (this novel gene recently identified in Dr. Nader Rahimi’s lab)
  • Welcome to New Faces:
    • Konstantine Spirin, PhD joined the Panchenko Lab November 1st; his expertise is in the area of chromatin biology and genetics
    • Nick Robertson in the Winandy Lab
    • Patrick Tylek a Masters Student in the Kurosawa Lab

Publications-PUBLISHED:

  • Jillian Richmond, 4th year PhD candidate in the Cruikshank Lab had an article published: “Interleukin-16 as a Marker of Sézary Syndrome Onset and Stage;” Jillian Richmond, Marina Tuzova, Ashley Parks, Natalie Adams and Elizabeth Martin, et al.Journal of Clinical Immunology, Online First™, 27 September 2010

Publications-ACCEPTED:

  • Michael Roehrl, MD and resident, Yani Toribio, MD has a paper in press: Toribio Y, Roehrl MHA. The Nasolabial Cyst – A Non-Odontogenic Oral Cyst Related To Nasolacrimal Duct Epithelium. Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine 2010, in press
  • Dr. Martin Kroll’s article “Thromboelastography:  Theory and Practice in Measuring Hemostasis,” will be published in the December 2010 issue of Clinical Laboratory News
  • Paper in press: Roehrl MHA, Alexander M, Hammond S, Ruzinova M, Wang JY, O’Hara C. Eosinophilic Myocarditis in Hypereosinophilic Syndrome. American Journal of Hematology 2010
  • Dr. Nader Rahimi and Dr. Rosana Meyer had a paper accepted for publication in Oncogene. Rosana D Meyer, Deeba Husian and Nader Rahimi: “c-Cbl inhibits angiogenesis and tumor growth by suppressing activation of PLC-gamma 1”
  • Dr. Mary Jo Murnane has a paper in press: Active MMP-2 Activity Discriminates Colonic Mucosa, Adenomas with and without High Grade Dysplasia and Cancers” by Murnane, MJ, Cai J, Shuja S, McAneny D and Willett JB  is In Press the Journal Human Pathology
  • Dr. Martin Steffen has a manuscript accepted in Nucleic Acids Research: COMBREX:  A project to accelerate the functional annotation of prokaryotic genomes. Richard J. Roberts*, Yi-Chien Chang, Zhenjun Hu, John N. Rachlin, Brian P. Anton,, Revonda M. Pokrzywa, Han-Pil Choi, Lina L. Faller, Jyotsna Guleria, Genevieve Housman, Niels Klitgord, Varun Mazumdar, Mark G. McGettrick, Lais Osmani, Rajeswari Swaminathan, Kevin R. Tao, Stan Letovsky, Dennis Vitkup, Daniel Segre, Steven L. Salzberg, Charles Delisi, Martin Steffen*, and Simon Kasif*

View all posts