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March 2012
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items Announcements: The Nikolajczyk Lab's work, “B Lymphocytes are Master Regulators of a Pro-inflammatory T Cell Balance in Obesity and Glucose Intolerance" was done in collaboration with the Denis Lab and has been selected for: An oral presentation at the American Association of Immunologists Annual Meeting in Boston inMay. Anna Belkina will be presenting. An oral presentation at the American Diabetes Association Annual Meeting in Philadelphia in June. Dr.Barbara Nikolajczyk will be... More
February 2012
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items Announcements: The feature article for the February CR Times, “Taking the Bite Out of the BARC: Getting Specimens from the BUMC Biospecimen Archive Research Core is Easier Than You Think!” is about the BARC this month and was written by Dr. Robert Pistey, BARC Director, Cheryl Spencer, MA, BARC Manager and an IRB senior analyst. Dr. Michael O’Brien has a featured article in this week’s New England Journal of Medicine: Ann G. More
January 2012
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items Announcements: Boston Magazine has released its annual http://www.bostonmagazine.com/health/top_docs/listings/202482/results?content=boston+medical+center&category=0&property_value=1&x=0&y=0&my_form_idx_148=148 Top Docs issue and our own Dr. Antonio de las Morenas was once again on the list of “Top Docs” Congratulations Dr. de las Morenas Dr. Ivana Delalle was an invited lecturer December 15, 2011 at the European Neuroscience Institute at Goettingen University, Germany. Her presentation was I entitled: "Identifying modulators of brain reserve and neuropathology in cognitive and mood disorders" On January 3 Dr. More
December 2011
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items Announcements: Boston Magazine has released its annual Top Docs issue and our own Dr. Antonio de las Morenas was once again on the list of “Top Docs” Congratulations Dr. de las Morenas Dr. Michael Roehrl was an invited speaker on Ultra-Rapid Biobanking at the October 2011 Molecular Diagnostics for Personalized Medicine Conference in Hannover, Germany Also Dr. Roehrl taught a new postgraduate course for pathologists on "Systems Pathology: An Introduction to Omic Approaches... More
November 2011
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items Announcements: Resident Marier Hernández-Pérez, MD had an abstract accepted for poster presentation at the Meeting of the 48th Annual Meeting of The American Society of Dermatopathologists (ASDP) in Seattle, WA in October. Marier Hernández-Pérez, MD; Mohamad El-hajahmad, MHCM; Meera Mahalingam, MD, PhD, FRCPath. “Expression of gelatinases (MMP-2, MMP-9) and gelatinase activator (MMP-14) in actinic keratosis and in in situ and invasive squamous cell carcinoma” Our Cytopathology Fellowship has been approved by... More
October 2011
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items Announcements: Poster Presentations at CAP (College of American Pathology Meeting), September 2011 “Intrauterine Death in the Second and Third Trimester of Pregnancy Associated With Umbilical Cord Hypercoiling and Hypocoiling” Opoku Adjapong, MD; Sandra Cerda, MD; Carmen Sarita-Reyes, MD “Expression Profiles of Cytokeratin and Epithelial Membrane Antigen in the Sarcomatous Element of Müllerian Tumors” (Poster No. 10) Hao Wu, MD, PhD; Carmen Sarita-Reyes, MD; Sandra Cerda, MD Dr. Carmen Sarita-Reyes will be presenting “Placental Listeriosis... More
September 2011
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items Announcements: Dr. Nader Rahimi has been awarded an Ignition Award from the Office of Technology of Boston University for development of humanized blocking monoclonal anti-IGPR-1 antibody for the treatment of human Lung Cancers. The provisional patent also has been filed for this novel technology. Please give a warm welcome to our new students Jessica Allen; PhD Candidate Lujain Al-Sowaimel, MA Candidate Laura Anthony, MA Candidate Mostafa Belghasem, PhD Candidate Chad Mayer, MD/PhD Candidate Caitlin Miller; PhD Candidate Timothy Norman, More
August 2011
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items Announcements: Supraja Narasimhan PhD, successfully defended her thesis “The Role of the Constitutively Active Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor in Mammary Tumor Progression" on July 11th Dr. Susan Winandy has received an R03 grant from the NIH entitled “Generation of Ikaros conditional knockout mice"! Parul Agnihotri, rising 2nd year PhD Candidate in the Winandy Lab has been awarded a position on the ITP training grant Shinichiro Kurosawa, MD, PhD was invited to the International Society... More
July 2011
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items Announcements: Laboratory Medicine’s New Facilities at 670 Albany Street had a very successful Open House Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony on Tuesday, June 21st. The event was attended by more than 70 people including Kate Walsh, Boston Medical Center’s President and CEO; Boston University Medical Center’s Dean Karen Antman as well as many distinguished guests and BMC/BUSM colleagues. Attendees were treated to informative, interesting tours of the facility and refreshments to celebrate the seamless... More
June 2011
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items Announcements: Dr. Carl O’Hara is this year’s recipient of the prestigious Stanley L. Robbins Award for 2011. The Stanley L. Robbins Award for Excellence in Teaching is given each year at graduation to the outstanding educator at the School of Medicine. The award was established in recognition of the excellence in teaching and devotion to students exemplified by Dr. Stanley L. Robbins, former Chair and Professor of Pathology at BUSM. This award... More