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Pathology Notables

Thaddeus Stappenbeck, M.D, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Pathology and Immunology and of Developmental Biology - was awarded the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Fellowship honoring superior professional achievement in clinical private or academic practice and in basic or clinical research.

Mary Markiewicz, Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor of Pathology and Immunology - received a three-year $393,300 junior faculty award, from The American Diabetes Association, entitled "The Role of NKG2D on CTL in Autoimmune Diabetes".

Andrey Shaw, M.D., Emil R. Unanue Professor of Pathology and Immunology, HHMI Investigator in Pathology and Immunology, and Head, Division of Immunobiology - was chosen by the class of 2014 to receive the Distinguished Service Teaching Award.

Robert Schreiber, Ph.D., Alumni Professor of Pathology and Immunology and of Molecular Microbiology - was featured in the Record for the article " DNA Sequencing Helps Identify Cancer Cells for Immune System Attack". https://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/23353.aspx.

Nabeel Yaseen, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Pathology and Immunology - organized a concert at the CAM on January 14th that was sponsored by the Department of Pathology and was attended by ~200 people from the medical center and the community. It was featured in Outlook online

Hansen, Ted, Ph.D., Professor of Pathology and Immunology and of Genetics, with William Gillanders, Professor of Surgery and Eliane Mardis, Professor of Genetics - received a five-year $6,500,000 grant from the Susan G. Komen Foundation, entitled "Personalized Breast Cancer Vaccines Bases on Genome Sequencing".

Eynav Klechevsky, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in Pathology and Immunology - received a one-year $439,724 research award from the Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital Cancer Frontier Fund Program, entitled "Cancer Immunotherapies Targeting Tumor-Specific Mutational Antigens Identified by Exome Sequencing".

Shashikant Kulkarni, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Pathology and Immunology, of Genetics, and of Pediatrics, Head, Clinical Genomics of Genomics and Pathology Services, and Medical Director, Cytogenomics and Molecular Pathology - was featured in the Record.

Shashikant Kulkarni, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Pathology and Immunology, of Genetics, and of Pediatrics, Head, Clinical Genomics of Genomics and Pathology Services, and Medical Director, Cytogenomics and Molecular Pathology - was also featured and interviewed in Genomeweb

Ansuman Satpathy, B.S. DBBS, Predoc Trainee in Ken Murphy's lab - received a two-year $52,000 predoctoral fellowship from the American Heart Association Midwest Affiliate Research Programs Predoctoral Fellowship, entitled "The Role of CD4+ Dendritic Cells in the Adaptive Immune Response to Parasitic Infections".

Barry P. Sleckman, M.D., Ph.D., Conan Professor of Pathology and Immunology and Head, Division of Laboratory and Genomic Medicine - was chosen by the class of 2014 to receive the Distinguished Service Teaching Award.

Andrey Shaw, M.D., Emil R. Unanue Professor of Immunobiology in Pathology and Immunology, HHMI Investigator in Pathology and Immunology, and Head, Division of Immunobiology - received a one-year $82,954 research award from The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital Cancer Frontier Fund Program, entitled "Understanding the Mechanism of BRAF Inhibitors in the Induction of Squamous Cell Carcinoma".

Karen Seibert, Ph.D., Research Professor of Pathology and Immunology and of Genetics - was featured in the Record for the article, "Patients with rare diseases to get DNA sequenced at no charge".

Karen Seibert, Ph.D., Research Professor of Pathology and Immunology and of Genetics - was featured in the Record.

Kyunghee Choi, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Pathology and Immunology - received a four year $1,000,000 research grant as year 16 of R01 competing renewal award from NIH NHLBI, entitled "Hemangioblast Development and Regulation".

Leslie McIntosh, Ph.D., Research Instructor in Pathology and Immunology - received a one-year $249,000 subcontract from Cornell University for a research grant awarded from the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences, entitled "Enhancing the Datastar Semantic Platform for Data Sharing and Discovery".

Keke Fairfax, Ph.D., Postdoc in Edward Pearce's lab - received a one and one half-year $92,000 fellowship grant, from UNCF/Merck Postdoctoral Science Research Fellowship, entitled "The Role of B Cell IL-10R and Hepatic Antibody Screen During Chronic Schistosomiasis".

Robert Schreiber, Ph.D., Alumni Professor of Pathology and Immunology and of Molecular Microbiology - received a one-year $439,724 research award from the Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital Cancer Frontier Fund Program, entitled "Cancer Immunotherapies Targeting Tumor-Specific Mutational Antigens Identified by Exome Sequencing".

Herbert Virgin, M.D., Ph.D., Edward Mallinckrodt Professor and Head, Pathology and Immunology, Director and Principal Investigator, Midwest Regional Center of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research, Professor of Molecular Microbiology, and of Medicine - was featured in the Record.

Hansen, Ted, Ph.D., Professor of Pathology and Immunology and of Genetics - received a five-year $1,250,000 research grant as year 28 of R01 competing renewal award from NIH NIAID, entitled "MHCI Regulation by Virus".

Mary Markiewicz, Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor of Pathology and Immunology - received a one-year $30,000 research grant from the American Cancer Society, Allocation from Siteman Cancer Center, entitled "The Role of NKG2D in Immunosurveillance of Spontaneous Lymphoma".

Rakesh Nagarajan, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Pathology and Immunology and of Genetics - was featured in the Record.

Jeffrey Milbrandt, M.D., Ph.D., Professor and Head, Department of Genetics, Professor of Pathology and Immunology, of Medicine, and of Neurology - was featured in the Record.

Marco Colonna, M.D., Professor of Pathology and Immunology and of Medicine - received a three-year $275,311 research grant agreement from MedImmune, entitled "Research Relating to the Role of PDC in the BXSB Model of SLE, the Pristine-Induced Model of SLE and the MLR.Faslpr Model of Autoimmunity; ILT7 Expression in Human Bone Marrow; and PDC Depletion in Preclinical Models of COPD".

Daved Fremont, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Pathology and Immunology and of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics - received a five-year $1,250,000 research grant as year 28 of R01 competing renewal award from NIH NIAID, entitled "MHCI Regulation by Virus".

Gaya Amarasinghe, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pathology and Immunology and of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics - received a one-year $141,247 research grant sub agreement from Mt.Sinai School of Medicine and NIH NIAID, entitled "Development of Pan-Filoviral Inhibitors of Replication Targeting VP35 Proteins".

Deborah Novack, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Medicine and of Pathology and Immunology - was elected to the council for the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research for a three-year term.

Erika C. Crouch, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Pathology and Immunology, Faculty, Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences, and Course Leader of Sophomore Pathology Course - was chosen as Professor of the Year by the Class of 2013 for the Academic Year 2010-2011.

John Pfeifer, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Pathology and Immunology, of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs, Department of Pathology and Immunology - was featured in the Record.

Jimmy Lin, Ph.D., Research Instructor in Pathology and Immunology - was featured in the Record for the article, "Patients with rare diseases to get DNA sequenced at no charge".

Szeman (Ruby) Chan, Ph.D., Research Instructor of Pathology and Immunology - received a one-year $75,045 research grant from Bristol-Myers Squibb, entitled "To Determine Whether the Selective JAK2 Inhibitor BMS?911543 is Effective in Controlling the Progression of ER?+/PR+ Mammary Tumors that are Insensitive to Endocrine Treatment".

Monika Vig, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pathology and Immunology - received a three-year $180,000 grant from the Edward Mallinckrodt Junior Foundation, entitled "Understanding the Novel Mechanism of Development of Spontaneous Crohn's Disease in CRACM1 Deficient Mice".

Departmental Event Schedules

May 16 2012 8:00AM *North Campus Surgical Pathology Conference Fellow/Staff - 1st Year Slide Unknowns Room 2206, Jewish Hospital

May 16 2012 8:00AM Anatomic and Molecular Path Conference* Anne Lind, M.D. - Dermatopathology 3rd Floor Classroom Peters Building

May 16 2012 9:15AM Neuro Micro Surgical Rounds Working Neuropathology Conference - Residents Room 3722, 3rd Floor, West Building

May 16 2012 10:30AM Hematopathology Consensus Conference Sign-Out Room, North Campus

May 16 2012 2:00PM Autopsy Gross Sign Out Conference Autopsy Suite, 1st Floor West Building

May 17 2012 8:00AM Autopsy Gross Organ Review Conference Louis Dehner, M.D. - Autopsy Suite, 1st Floor, West Building

May 17 2012 9:15AM Neuro Autopsy Surgical Rounds Classics in Neuropathology - Room 3822, 3rd Floor, West Building

May 17 2012 12:00PM Laboratory and Genomic Medicine Conference* Mitchell Scott, Ph.D. - NICE-SUGAR, Glucose Meters and the FDA--What are 30% of the Hospitals in the US to Do? CAM, 3rd Floor, Farrell Conference Room 2

May 17 2012 2:00PM Autopsy Gross Sign Out Conference Autopsy Suite, 1st Floor West Building

May 18 2012 8:00AM *Anatomic and Molecular Pathology Conference Horacio Maluf, M.D., - Slide Unknowns 3rd Floor Classroom, Peters Building

May 18 2012 10:30AM Hematopathology Consensus Conference Sign-Out Room, North Campus

May 18 2012 2:00PM Autopsy Gross Sign Out Conference Autopsy Suite, 1st Floor West Building

May 18 2012 4:00PM Immunology Work In Progress (WIP) Khushbu Patel, Host / Christine Song (Colonna) / Scott Werneke (Lenschow) / Gregorz Gmyrek (Swat) - Childrens Hospital - 3rd Floor Auditorium

May 21 2012 12:00PM Residents Report Service Building, 2nd Floor, Classroom 1B

May 21 2012 4:15PM Immunology Seminar Series* Daved Fremont, Ph.D., WUSM, Pathology and Immunology - Structural Mechanisms of Viral Immune Evasion Farrell Learning and Teaching Center, Connor Auditorium

May 22 2012 12:00PM LGM Case Conference* Clinical Chemistry Conference Pathology Library, 3rd Floor West Building, Room 3723

May 23 2012 12:00PM Supplementary Lecture Series for Fellows and Residents Horacio Maluf, M.D., - Communicaton Skills and Professional Ethics Pathology Library, 3rd Floor West Building, Room 3723

May 24 2012 12:00PM LGM Conference CAM, 3rd Floor, Farrell Conference Room 2

May 25 2012 4:00PM Immunology Work In Progress (WIP) Scott Werneke, Host / Sang-Hun Lee (Schreiber) / Winnie Lee (Murphy) - Childrens Hospital - 3rd Floor Auditorium

May 28 2012 12:00PM Residents Report No Meeting

May 29 2012 12:00PM Special Topics in Lab Medicine Red Service Case Conference Pathology Library, 3rd Floor West Building, Room 3723

Clinical Pathological Correlations

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