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Top Doc in Boston Antonio de las Morenas!
Antonio de las Morenas, M.D., Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine has been recognized by Boston magazine as a Top Doc in Boston. According to BU Today, “To be included in Boston magazine’s Top Doc list, physicians undergo a rigorous screening process by national medical research firm Castle Connolly. The firm gathers nominations online from other licensed physicians, conducts phone interviews with medical professionals to corroborate nominations, and checks the professional qualifications of all nominees... More
October 2013
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items – Announcements: Faculty Appointments and/or Promotions: Dr. Yuriy Alekseyev was promoted to Research Associate Professor Dr. Shinichi Takayama has been appointed as Research Associate Professor Immunology has selected an image from an article authored by Dr. Zhaohua Lu and colleagues, published in this month’s Immunology for the journal cover (see photo and link to article) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imm.12150/full The Martin Steffen Lab presented a talk on their work on biomarkers for Prostate Cancer at the 2013 meeting... More
September 2013
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items – Announcements: CAP (College of American Pathologist) 2013, Orlando Florida, October 13-16, 2013; Accepted: "Validation Of Pre-transfusion Compatibility Testing In PEG In A Semi-automated Transfusion Service" (Poster No. 98 - p 1371) - Josenia Tan and Karen Quillen - Abstract accepted to CAP 2013, poster presentation "Benign Epithelial Inclusions In Axillary Lymphnodes" (Poster No. 69 - p 1452) - Anita Deshpande, MD; Josenia Tan, MD; Melinda Lerwill, MD; Grace Zhao, MD; selected... More
August 2013
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items – Announcements: Chad Mayer, MD/PhD Student in the Kurosawa Lab is the recipient of the 2014, MD/PhD Student Conference Diversity Award from the Medical Sciences Training Program; and he received a check for $500.00 MD/PhD candidate Nick Woolf, in the Rahimi Lab, was recently accepted as a fellow in BU's 2013-2014 Cross-Disciplinary Training in Nanotechnology for Cancer (XTNC) program. This fellowship will fund his research stipend for at least... More
July 2013
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items Announcements: Nancy S. Miller, MD will be President-elect of the Northeast Branch of the American Society for Microbiology, for the one-year term commencing July 1, 2013 Daniel Remick, MD was elected to chair the Research Committee of the Association of Pathology Chairs. With this election he will continue as a member of council Parul Agnihotri, PhD Candidate, has been invited to attend the International Graduate Student Immunology Conference in Marseilles, France from August... More
June 2013
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items Announcements: Castle Graduation Celebration 2013 Congratulations Graduating Resident, Dr. Josenia Tan who won the very first Robert Foley, MBA, Award. This honor will be given annually to a resident or fellow who “demonstrates the qualities that Mr. Foley brought to work every day.” This being the inaugural year of the prize Mr. Foley’s family was invited to the Castle Graduation Dinner. Congratulations on passing the Qualifying Exams! Jessica Allen Mostafa Belghasem Melody Lun Caitlin Miller Jacquelyn... More
May 2013
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items – Announcements: 36th ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON SHOCK, June 1 – 4, 2013, San Diego, California: PhD Candidates Evan Chiswick, Dominic Beal, and Surgical Resident/Researcher Juan Rodolfo Mella Remick Lab will present a poster; “Too Zealous Too Soon: The Shift from Hyper to Hypo Reactive Phagocytes in Polymicrobial Sepsis” Chad Mayer, MD/PhD candidate, Kurosawa Lab, has an abstract accepted for ORAL presentation at the 2013 Shock Society meetings in San Diego. His abstract... More
April 2013
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items Announcements: Our own, Ryan Gould, Pathology Assistant, has been chosen to receive one of this year's Boston Medical Center’s “Be Exceptional Awards!” Bravo Ryan! Ryan was notified of the award on April 24th along with an Edible Arrangements, balloons and an invitation to the May 8th “Be Exceptional Awards” Ceremony The ASIP 2013 Annual Meeting at Experimental Biology; Boston, MA, April 20-24: Dr. Daniel Remick organized a workshop for the American Society of... More
March 2013
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items – Announcements: Read all about our very own Christian Kiriakos in the March installment of The BMC Brief; “What Do You Do, Christian Kiriakos?” Link Michael Greene, PhD, successfully defended his thesis “Evidence for a Role of the Molecular Chaperone Clusterin in Systemic Amyloidosis" on Monday March 25th Heather Cohen Leach, PhD, successfully defended her thesis “Endothelial and Innate Immune Cross-Talk in the Pathogenesis of Pulmonary Fibrosis in Mice” on Wednesday, March... More
February 2013
Announcements: Dr. Barbara Nikolajczyk recently gave two talks: At Miami 2013 Nature Winter Symposium on The Molecular Basis of Metabolism and Nutrition, "B lymphocytes are master regulators of a pro-inflammatory T cell balance in obesity and type 2 diabetes", on February, 13th 2013 in Miami, Florida Also at the University of Miami, Department of Immunology, on February 14th 2013 also in Miami, "B lymphocytes regulate a pro-inflammatory T cell balance in human type 2 diabetes" Heather Cohen Leach, PhD... More