January 2011

Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items

Announcements:

  • Dr. Nader Rahimi will be guest speaker at Tufts University School of Medicine in the basic science Grand Round Lecture Series on January 27th.  The title of his lecture is: “Angiogenesis meets Ubiquitination”.
  • Jackie Bouchard, PhD Candidate in the Remick Lab has been selected to receive an ASIP Trainee Travel Award.  Her award comes with a stipend of $500.  The award will be presented to Jackie at the ASIP Membership Business Meeting and Awards Presentation on Monday,  April 11, 2011 in the Walter E. Washington Convention Center
  • Sandra Cerda, MD has two abstracts accepted for Digestive Disease Week 2011, May 7-10 in Chicago, Illinois:
    • “Adenoma-like DALMs in Crohn’s Disease:  A Clinical, Pathologic, and Outcome study”
    • “Hyperplastic and Serrated Polyps in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Clinicopathologic and Outcome Study”
  • Mostafa Belghasem, MA Candidate in the Henderson Lab will be teaching a mini-histology series, as a volunteer, next semester 2011 to GMS students taking the PA600 course. He will assist students with no human histology background to have a better understanding of their pathology lectures and help them excel in future courses. The idea has been highly supported and approved by Dr Tom Christensen and Dr Chris Andry
  • News from the Microarray Core: The Microarray Core Facility directed by Dr. Yuriy Alekseyev announces the price reduction, effective immediately. The new prices are listed here:    For example, the full price for our most popular product, Affymetrix Gene Array 1.0 ST (over 28,000 well annotated genes, Human, Mouse or Rat) is now $470.00 (was $575.00). The miRNA array is now $340.00 (was $410.00). These prices include full processing and basic analysis. We hope that this change will make our services more affordable and will help you to apply the power of whole genome approach to your project
  • Alyson Mangini PhD successfully defended her thesis  “The Role of Type I Interferons in T helper Cell Inflammatory Responses in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus”on December 17, 2010
  • Barbara Nikolajczyk, PhD attended the AAMC Mid-Career Women’s Leadership Conference Dec 10-14 in Scottsdale, Arizona
  • Gerald Denis (PI) and Barbara Nikolajczyk, PhD (Co-PI) have been awarded a DOM Affinity Research Collaborative (ARC)  award entitled “Obesity, Cancer and Inflammation”
  • Michael H. Roehrl, M.D., Ph.D., has been invited as a faculty for a session entitled “Systems Pathology: An Introduction to Omic Approaches in Personalized Medicine” at the October 2011 Annual Meeting of the ASCP (American Society of Clinical Pathology) in Las Vegas
  • A Note received by our own Dr. Martin Kroll:
    • Dear Dr. Kroll, I recently read the little piece you did on thromboelastography in the December issue of the Clinical Laboratory News.  One of our clinical lab folks cut it out and gave it to me.  I needed to learn a little more about this testing, and your article did the trick. I never liked coag-related stuff, which makes it that much harder to learn, but even I understood TEG after reading your article.  Thank you for a painless learning experience.
      Best, A physician from Arkansas (Name withheld for privacy purposes)

Publications-PUBLISHED:

  • Michael H. Roehrl, M.D., Ph.D., has been invited to contribute a book chapter entitled “Cancer Stem Cells” to the forthcoming 2nd edition of the textbook “The Molecular Basis of Human Cancer” (Springer) to be published in late 2011

View all posts