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Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items – March 2018
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items – March 2018 Announcements: The Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Department enjoyed a very successful College of American Pathologists (CAP) accreditation inspection the last week of March. The inspecting team from Mount Sinai, NY credited the department for its high quality work and excellent performance Mark Wojnarowicz, PhD (Goldstein Lab) successfully defended his thesis “The relationship of brain and retina pathology in a novel mouse model of closed-head concussive impact injury” on Wednesday, More
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items – February 2018
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items – February 2018 Announcements: Dr. John Kim had a volunteer opportunity serving as a judge for the Science Fair at Excel High School (http://www.excelhigh.org/index.jsp) which is located at the summit of Telegraph Hill in South Boston. Approximately 70 projects were presented by students, and he felt honored and privileged when talking to enthusiastic students about their projects and future in STEM. Dr. Kim would like to encourage all member of... More
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items – Winter 2017/2018
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items - Winter 2017/2018 Announcements: Nancy S. Miller, M.D. presented “A point of view about point of care testing for diagnostic microbiology in the U.S.” at the Global Applied Microbiology Conference, October 18-19, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and Dr. Miller presented also as ASM Distinguished Lecturer at the Southern California Branch-American Society for Microbiology, October 27-28, La Jolla, CA. Also at La Jolla, Dr. Miller was invited to a breakout Educators’... More
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items – Fall 2017
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items - Fall 2017 Announcements: On August 20, 2017, Dr. Huihong Xu gave a presentation of "Molecular Diagnostics in Lung Cancer" at the Hot and Practical Topics in Diagnostic Pathology-2017 Chicago, the 3rd CAPA Diagnostic Pathology Meeting Pathology Resident, Weiwei Shi, MD was awarded a Resident Travel Scholarship for the ASCP Annual Meeting in Chicago for September to present his abstract poster, “Intravascular leiomyomatosis: an unusual case of inferior vena caval (IVC) filter... More
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items – June/July 2017
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items – June/July 2017 Announcements: One of our recently Defended MD/PhDs, Nisma Mujahid, PhD, first authored paper came out in Cell Reports on Tuesday (6/13/2017) (please find details below), and it's gotten a press. Nisma’s paper's been featured in BBC (front page Health News), Time, Science, ScienceMag, Smithsonian...among others. http://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(17)30684-8 http://www.bbc.com/news/health-40260029 Sandra Cerda MD, was invited as a guest speaker and scientific session Chair and moderator at the “3rd International Conference... More
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items – April/May 2017
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items – April/May 2017 Announcements: A Mallory grant “The Utility of Ki-67 and Phosphohistone H3 in the Differentiation Between Classic Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma, Follicular Variant of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma and Non-invasive Follicular Neoplasm with Papillary-like Nuclear Features” was funded. This will support the work of Drs. Jing Yang, Cerda and Tan. The T32 training grant, T32GM086308 “Immunobiology of Trauma” was funded for an additional 5 years with a budget of $1,401,170. This grant... More
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items – February/March 2017
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items – February/March 2017 Announcements: Our Resident, Israa Laklouk, MD had the following abstract " Diagnostic Implication of ThyroSeq Sequencing Assay on Thyroid Nodules with FNA Cytology Diagnosis of Bethesda III: Atypia of Undetermined Significance versus Follicular Lesion of Undetermined Significance " authors: Israa Laklouk, Mahmoud L Soliman, Dhay Kamel, Huihong Xu, Sandra Cerda; selected for a Poster Presentation at the United States & Canadian Academy of Pathology’s (USCAP) 106th Annual Meeting, March 4 - 10, 2017 in... More
UPDATED: 11th Annual Bucher Seminar
Friday, October 13th, 2017 @ 2:00 PM The 11th Annual Nancy L. R. Bucher, MD Seminar Stephen R. Farmer, PhD Professor of Biochemistry Boston University School of Medicine “Recruitment of Vascular Progenitors during Adipose Expansion and Fibrosis” Location: 670 Albany Street; Lobby Level #107/108 Reception to Follow
Dissertation Defense – Tuesday, March 21, 2017
Dissertation Defense Seminar ~~ Tuesday, March 21, 2017 2:00-3:00 PM “Characterizing the Airway Epithelium following Chemical Exposure: Molecular Alterations and their Potential Utility in the Treatment of Lung Disease” Elizabeth Moses PhD Candidate Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Boston University School of Medicine Location & Time: Instructional Building; L-112 2:00-3:00 PM Tuesday, March 21, 2017
Dissertation Defense – Friday, March 10, 2017
Dissertation Defense Seminar ~~ Friday, March 10, 2017 10:00-11:00 AM “Induction of Human Macrophage Cell Death by Neisseria gonorrhoeae” Jessica (Allen) Ritter PhD Candidate Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Boston University School of Medicine Location & Time: 670 Albany Street Lobby Level #107/108 10:00-11:00 AM Friday, March 10, 2017