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Pathology Notables Dr. Alejandro Gru - was the recipient of the Physician-in-Training Award for the best resident/fellow oral abstract presentation at the 46th Annual Meeting of The American Society of Dermatopathology this month. The title of his presentation was, "Mucosal and Soft Parts Melanoma: A Clinicopathologic, and Immunophenotypic Study of 122 Cases". By Alejandro A Gru, Nils Becker, Ann C Lind
Barry Sleckman, M.D., Ph.D., Conan Professor of Pathology and Immunology and Chief, Division of Laboratory and Genomic Medicine - was selected by the class of 2012 to receive the "Professor of the Year" Award for teaching in academic year 2008-2009.
Andrey Shaw, M.D., Emil R. Unanue Professor of Pathology and Immunology, Chief, Division of Immunobiology, and HHMI Investigator in Pathology and Immunology - was selected by the class of 2012 to receive a "Distinguished Service Teaching Award" for teaching in academic year 2008-2009.
John Pfeifer, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Pathology and Immunology, Assistant Professor of OB-GYN, and Co-Director, Division of Anatomic and Molecular Pathology - was selected by the class of 2011 to receive a "Distinguished Service Teaching Award" for teaching in academic year 2008-2009.
Arie Perry, M.D., Professor of Pathology and Immunology - was selected by the class of 2011 to receive a "Distinguished Service Teaching Award" for teaching in academic year 2008-2009.
Erika Crouch, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Pathology and Immunology - was selected by the class of 2011 to receive the "Course Master of the Year" Award for teaching in academic year 2008-2009.
Barry P. Sleckman, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Pathology and Immunology - has been named the Conan Professor of Laboratory and Genomic Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
Jason C. Mills, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pathology and Immunology - was named Chair, Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences (DBBS) Admission Committee.
Erika Crouch, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Pathology and Immunology - was elected President of the Alpha Omega Alpha Chapter, at Washington University School of Medicine, in July 2009.
Benjamin Capoccia, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Immunobiology and Ramon Jin, DBBS Graduate Research Assistant in Immunobiology - received travel awards for “superb presentations” at the recent Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) meeting.
K. Scott Weber, Ph.D., Instructor in Pathology and Immunology - received a three-year, $350,617 MRCE Career Development Award in Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research.
Thaddeus S. Stappenbeck, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pathology and Immunology and Developmental Biology - received a one-year, $50,000 ARRA supplement from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, entitled “Responses of Intestinal Stem Cells to Epithelial Injury”.
Barry P. Sleckman, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Pathology and Immunology - received a one-year, $17,439 ARRA student supplement from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, entitled “ATM Function During V(D)J Recombination”.
Robert D. Schreiber, Ph.D., Alumni Professor of Pathology and Immunology and Professor of Molecular Microbiology - received a five-year, $4,135,723 grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, entitled “Responses of Intestinal Stem Cells to Epithelial Injury”.
Eugene M. Oltz, Ph.D., Professor of Pathology and Immunology - received a two-year, $418,000 ARRA funded grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, entitled “Long-Range Genetic and Epigenetic Control of Igh Gene Assembly”.
Eugene M. Oltz, Ph.D., Professor of Pathology and Immunology - received a two-year, $418,000 ARRA funded grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, entitled “Long-Range Genetic and Epigenetic Control of Igh Gene Assembly”.
Kwadwo A. Oduro, MSTP Student in Pathology and Immunology - received a two-year, $52,000 predoctoral fellowship from the American Heart Association, entitled “Increased Myeloid Inflammatory Cell and Osteoclast Generation in Rheumatoid Arthritis Primed at the Stem Cell Level”.
Rakesh Nagarajan, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor Pathology and Immunology - received a two-year, $962,912 ARRA funded grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, entitled “Development of Data Ontologies for Integrating Multi-Center Cardiovascular Studies”.
Mark J. Miller, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pathology and Immunology - received a five-year, $1,900,000 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, entitled “Bacterial Capture and Antigen Presentation in Spleen”.
Jeffrey D. Milbrandt, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Pathology and Immunology, Medicine, and Neurology - received a two-year, $250,000 grant from the Craig T. Neilsen Foundation, entitled “Nmnat-mediated Axonal Protection in Spinal Cord Injury”.
Jeffrey D. Milbrandt, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Pathology and Immunology, Medicine, and Neurology - received a one-year, $76,141 ARRA funded equipment grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, entitled “Regulation of Myelination by Egr2/Nab Protein Complexes”.
Michael L. McDaniel, Ph.D., Professor of Pathology and Immunology - received a one-year, $36,000 mentor-based postdoctoral research scholar award for Haythem Aly, Ph.D. from the American Diabetes Association, Inc., entitled “Strategies to Increase Proliferation and Maintain Function in Adult Human Beta Cells”.
Daniel B. Graham, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Associate in Pathology and Immunology - received a three-year, $195,000 special fellow award from the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, entitled “DLG Family Tumor Suppressors in Lymphote Development and Transformation”.
Andrew L. Goodman, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Pathology and Immunology - received a one-year, $50,054 fellowship from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, entitled “the Genetic Determinants of Symbiotic Host-Microbial Interaction in the Human Gut”.
W. Michael Dunne, Ph.D., Professor of Pathology and Immunology, Medicine, and Molecular Microbiology - received a one-year, $74,744 grant from the Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation, entitled “Validation of a Novel Assay for the Identification of Fungal Infections”.
Marco Colonna, M.D., Professor of Pathology and Immunology - received a four-year, $411,897 subcontract from the University of Chicago and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, entitled “HLA-G-LILRB-SHP2 Axis in Airway Smooth Muscle”.
Javier A. Carrero, Ph.D., Research Instructor in Pathology and Immunology - received a one-year, $113,584 MRCE Career Development Award in Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research.
Elizabeth Brunt, M.D., Professor of Pathology and Immunology - received a five-year, $329,257 subcontract from St. Louis University and National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, entitled “The Saint Louis University Component of the NASH Clinical Research Network”.
Jacques U. Baenziger, M.D., Professor of Pathology and Immunology and Cell Biology and Physiology - received a two-year, $1,187,823 ARRA funded award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, entitled “Glycoprotein Hormone Oligosaccharides”.
Mitchell G. Scott, Ph.D., Professor of Pathology and Immunology and Clinical Research Assistant Professor of Medicine - began his term as President of the Academy of Clinical Laboratory Physicians and Scientists (ACLPS) on June 6, 2009 at the academy's annual meeting in Los Angeles, California.
Arie Perry, M.D., Associate Professor of Pathology and Immunology - was elected Vice President Elect of the American Association of Neuropathologists.
Herbert W Virgin IV, M.D., Ph.D., Edward Mallinckrodt Professor and Chair, Department of Pathology and Immunology, Professor of Molecular Microbiology, and Professor of Medicine - has been appointed Director and Principal Investigator, Midwest Region Center of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Disease Research.
Emil Unanue, M.D., Paul & Ellen Lacy Professor of Pathology and Immunology - received a two-year ARRA funded summer student supplement from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, on his grant entitled “Studies of Antigen Stimulation”.
Steven Teitelbaum, M.D., Wilma and Roswell Messing Professor of Pathology and Immunology - received a five-year, $1,710,000 grant from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, entitled “Mechanisms of Polarized Secretion by Bone Cells”.
Wojciech Swat, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Pathology and Immunology - received a two-year, $760,000 ARRA funded grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, entitled “Mechanisms of Signaling by Activating Receptors in Innate Immune Systems Cells”.
Barry Sleckman, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Pathology and Immunology - received a five-year, $1,654,845 grant from the National Cancer Institute, entitled “Activation of Cellular Signaling Pathways by DNA Double Strand Breaks”.
Kenneth Murphy, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Pathology and Immunology and HHMI Investigator in Pathology and Immunology - received a two-year, $315,000 grant from the Department of Defense, entitled “Defining the Role of BTLA in Breast Cancer Immunosurveillance and Selective Targeting of the BTLA-HVEM-LIGHT Costimulatory System”.
Kenneth Murphy, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Pathology and Immunology and HHMI Investigator in Pathology and Immunology - received a two-year, $691,082 ARRA funded grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, entitled “Analysis of Bidirectional Signaling Mechanisms for BTLA and MVEM in Autoimmunity”.
Eric Martens, Ph.D., Research Instructor in Pathology and Immunology - received a five-year, $575,239 career development award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, entitled “Complex Glycan Utilization by Human Gut Bacteroides”.
Joseph Corbo, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pathology and Immunology and Genetics - received a two-year, $100,000 grant from the American Health Assistance Foundation, entitled “Identifying cis-Regulatory Elements around the ARMS2 Locus”.
Tiffany Reese, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Pathology and Immunology - received a three-year, $140,000 fellowship from the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, entitled “The Immune Response to Latent Gamma Herpesvirus Infection”.
Robert D. Schreiber, Ph.D., Alumni Professor of Pathology and Immunology and Professor of Molecular Microbiology - received a one-year, $145,340 contract from Igenica Pharmaceuticals, entitled “Monoclonal Antibodies to Human Cell Surface Tumor Antigens”.
Andrey S. Shaw, M.D., Emil R. Unanue Professor of Pathology and Immunology - HHMI Investigator in Pathology and Immunology, received a five-year renewal from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, entitled “Structure and Function of the Immunological Synapse”.
Jeffrey Gordon, M.D., Robert J. Glaser Distinguished University Professor of Pathology and Immunology and Director of the Center for Genome Science - is the recipient of the Carl and Gerty Cori Faculty Achievement Award. He will receive his award and give a presentation of his scholarly work during a ceremony in December.
Brian Miller, MSTP Student in the Virgin Lab - received the Best Poster/Stanley J. Korsmeyer Young Investigator Award at the ASCI/AAP meeting in Chicago.
Louis P. Dehner, M.D., Professor of Pathology and Immunology and Medicine and Professor of Molecular Microbiology, in collaboration with Ashley Hill, M.D. Chief of Pathology at Children's National Medical Center and Paul Goodfellow, Ph.D., Co-Director of the Hereditary Cancer Core at the Siteman Cancer Center - had their results titled "Genetic Source of Rare Childhood Cancer Found; Gene is Implicated in Other Cancers", presented at the 100th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Cancer Research in Denver.
Jack H. Ladenson, Ph.D., Oree M. Carroll and Lillian B. Ladenson Professor of Clinical Chemistry in Pathology and Immunology and Medicine - was featured in the Office of Faculty Affairs Website under Outstanding Mentoring through the Generations: Basic Sciences, along with comments by Mitchell G. Scott, Ph.D., Professor of Pathology and Immunology and Clinical Research Assistant Professor of Medicine, and Ann M Gronowski, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Pathology and Immunology and Ob-Gyn.
Jeffrey D. Milbrandt, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Pathology and Immunology and Medicine and Neurology - was featured in the February issue of Developmental Cell, for his paper entitled, "Well-known enzyme is unexpected contributor to brain growth".
Thaddeus (Thad) Stappenbeck, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pathology and Immunology and Molecular Biology and Pharmacology, and Deborah Novack, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pathology and Immunology - have been elected to the American Society of Clinical Investigation. The new member induction is Friday, April 24, 2009, in Chicago.
Andrey S. Shaw, M.D., Emil R. Unanue Professor of Pathology and Immunology (Chief, Division of Immunobiology), HHMI Investigator in Pathology and Immunology, and Kenneth M. Murphy, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Pathology and Immunology, HHMI Investigator in Pathology and Immunology (Co-Director, Division of Immunobiology) - have been elected to the Association of American Physicians. The new member induction is Saturday, April 25, 2009, in Chicago.
Jochen Lennerz, M.D., Ph.D., Fellow in Molecular Pathology - received the Hans Popper Hepatopathology Society Trainee Award for the study entitled
Emily Green, M.D., Resident in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology - received the physician-in-training award for best poster abstract presentation from the American Society of Dermatopathology, entitled "Expression of MicroRNA 137 in Human Melanocytic Lesions".
Louis P. Dehner, M.D., Professor of Pathology and Immunology and Professor of Pathology in Pediatrics - was honored with the Distinguished Pathologist Award from USCAP (United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology).
Erika Crouch, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Pathology and Immunology and Course Master for the 2nd Year Pathology Course - was named Preclinical Teacher of the Year by the Class of 2009. The award will be presented at graduation in May.
Rebecca Chernock, M.D., Fellow in Surgical Pathology - received the Leon Barnes of the North American Society of Head and Neck Pathology award for best poster by a resident or junior faculty, for her presentation entitled " Identification of Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) in Basaloid Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Head and Neck and Its Clinicopathologic Significance".
Robert D. Schreiber, Ph.D., Alumni Professor of Pathology and Immunology and Professor of Molecular Microbiology - received a two-year $100,000 grant from the Cancer Research Institute, entitled “A Novel Mouse Mammary Gland Tumor Model that Displays Remarkable Similarity to Human Breast Cancer: Potential for Testing New Breast Cancer Therapeutics and/or Developing Methods for Early Disease Detection”.
Michelle M. Sandau, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Pathology and Immunology - received a two-year, $59,238 fellowship from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, entitled “Analysis of Bidirectional Signaling Mechanisms for BTLA and HVEm”.
Theresa Murphy, Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor of Pathology and Immunology - received a one-year, $326,684 grant through the Washington University/Pfizer Biomedical Research Program, entitled “Identifying Novel Targets in Th17 and Treg Development”.
Gerald Morris, M.D., Clinical Resident in Pathology and Immunology - received a one-year $25,000 W.M. Keck Fellowship to support postdoctoral training.
Jason C. Mills, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pathology and Immunology - received a three-year, $720,000 grant from the American Cancer Society, entitled “Normal and Metaplastic Differentiation of Gastric Neck Progenitor Cells”.
Daved H. Fremont, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Pathology and Immunology and Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics - received a one-year $1,125,000 grant through the Washington University/Pfizer Biomedical Research Program, entitled “Leveraging of Viral Anti-Inflammatory Strategies”.
Paul Allen, Ph.D., Robert L. Kroc Professor of Pathology and Immunology - received a one-year $1,012,500 grant through the Washington University/Pfizer Biomedical Research Program, entitled “Macrophages in Inflammation”.
Barbara Zehnbauer, Ph.D., Professor of Pathology and Immunology and Pediatrics - received approval from the American Board of Medical Genetics for fellowship training programs in Clinical Molecular Genetics and Clinical Cytogenetics beginning July 1, 2009. Dr. Zehnbauer will supervise training in clinical molecular genetics, while Shashikant Kulkarni, Ph.D., Assistant Professor Pathology and Immunology, will supervise training in clinical cytogenetics. Both faculty members are ABMG-certified, genetics laboratory directors.
Steven Teitelbaum, M.D., Messing Professor of Pathology and Immunology - has been appointed to the Editorial Board of The Journal of Experimental Medicine.
Kenneth Murphy, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Pathology and Immunology, HHMI Investigator in Pathology and Immunology, and Co-Director, Division of Immunobiology - had his paper in the journal Science (260:5107) entitled "Development of TH1 CD4+ T Cells Through IL-12 Produced by Listeria-Induced Macrophages" selected as a Pillars of Immunology in October in the Journal of Immunology (181:4437). In a commentary, Dr. William Paul of the NIH wrote that this paper was "a landmark in the progress made in understanding the mechanisms of differentiation of naive CD4+ T cells."
Erika Crouch, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Pathology and Immunology, Course - was honored with the “Coursemaster of the Year Award” on November 28, 2008, at the annual Distinguished Teaching Awards Ceremony.
Herbert W. Virgin IV, M.D., Ph.D., Edward Mallinckrodt Professor and Chair and Professor of Molecular Microbiology - has been promoted to Professor of Medicine.
Barry P. Sleckman, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Pathology and Immunology - received a five-year $1,900,000 grant from the NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, entitled “ATM Function During V(D)J Recombination”.
Jeffrey I. Gordon, M.D., Robert L. Glaser Professor of Pathology and Immunology and of Developmental Biology, and Medical Director of the Center for Genome Sciences - received a three-year $5,477,936 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, entitled “Characterizing the Human Gut Microbiota and its Microbiome in Malnourished Children at Two Sites in the Mal-ED Network”.
Immune Cell Link Intrigues Crohn's Disease Researchers – Form of Crohn's Disease Traced to Disabled Gut Cells. - Herbert W. Virgin IV, M.D., Ph.D., Edward Mallinckrodt Professor and Chair, Department of Pathology and Immunology and Professor of Molecular Microbiology (co-senior author)/Thaddeus Stappenbeck, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pathology & Immunology and Developmental Biology (co-senior author)
Cells Damage Their Own DNA to Activate Genes – Seemingly Suicidal Stunt is Normal Rite of Passage for Immune Cells. - Barry Sleckman, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Pathology and Immunology and Chief, Division of Laboratory and Genomic Medicine (senior author)
Rare Anti-Inflammatory Agents Discovered – Previously Unknown Immune Cell May Help Those with Crohn's and Colitis. - Marina Cella, M.D., Research Associate Professor of Pathology and Immunology (lead author)/Jason C. Mills, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pathology and Immunology and Developmental Biology (coauthor)/Marco Colonna, M.D., Professor of Pathology and Immunology and Medicine (senior author)
Herbert W. Virgin IV, M.D., Ph.D., Edward Mallinckrodt Professor and Chair, Department of Pathology and Immunology and Professor of Molecular Microbiology, - has joined the editorial team of Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology (CTMI).
Kenneth M. Murphy, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Pathology and Immunology, HHMI Investigator in Pathology and Immunology and Co-Director, Division of Immunology, - has been chosen to receive the WUSM 2009 Distinguished Investigator Award.
Jeffrey I. Gordon, M.D., Robert L. Glaser Professor of Pathology and Immunology and Developmental Biology and Medical Director of the Center for Genome Sciences, - was interviewed by NPR, on All Things Considered, on November 4, on "Gut Bacteria May Cause and Fight Disease, Obesity".
Jeffrey I. Gordon, M.D., Robert L. Glaser Professor of Pathology and Immunology and Developmental Biology and Medical Director of the Center for Genome Sciences, - has been elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors medical scientists in the United States can receive.
Barbara Zehnbauer, Ph.D., Professor of Pathology and Immunology and Pediatrics, - received a one-year, $74,000 contract from the National Institutes of Health, entitled “Specimen Preparation for Construction of Well-Annotated Progression and Prognostic Tissue Microarrays (TAMs) for Invasive Breast Carcinoma for Use in Breast Cancer Research”.
Herbert W. Virgin IV, M.D., Ph.D., Edward Mallinckrodt Professor and Chair, Department of Pathology and Immunology and Professor of Molecular Microbiology, - received a two-year, $330,000 grant from The Broad Foundation, entitled “In vivo Function of Crohn’s Disease Susceptibility Gene ATG16L1 in Intestinal Inflammation”.
Thaddeus Stappenbeck, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pathology and Immunology and Developmental Biology, - received a two-year, $330,000 grant from The Broad Foundation, entitled “Identification of Colitogenic Bacteria in an Antibiotic-Responsive Model of Fulminant Ulcerative Colitis”.
Marco Colonna, M.D., Professor of Pathology and Immunology and Medicine, - received a three-year, $675,000 grant from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, entitled “The Immunoreceptor DNAM-1 in Type I Diabetes”.
Kyunghee Choi, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Pathology and Immunology, - received a four-year, $1,520,000 renewal of a grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institution, entitled “Hematopoietic Commitment: Molecular Mechanisms”.
D. Craig Allred, M.D., Professor of Pathology and Immunology, - received a one-year $250,000 renewal of a grant from the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, entitled “Epithelial-Stromal Interactions in the Progression of Non-Invasive to Invasive Breast Cancer”.
John D. Pfeifer, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Pathology and Immunology - was listed in St. Louis Magazine's Best Doctors 2008 (August issue)
Peter A. Humphrey, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Pathology and Immunology - was listed in St. Louis Magazine's Best Doctors 2008 (August issue)
Phyllis C. Huettner, M.D., Associate Professor of Pathology and Immunology - was listed in St. Louis Magazine's Best Doctors 2008 (August issue)
Elizabeth M. Brunt, M.D., Professor of Pathology and Immunology - was listed in St. Louis Magazine's Best Doctors 2008 (August issue)
Michelle L.E. Powers, M.D., Resident in Pathology and Immunology, - was elected Delegate of the AMA-RFS Governing Council at their 32nd Annual Meeting in Chicago by the American Medical Association Resident and Fellow Section (AMA-RFS).
Herbert W. Virgin IV, M.D., Ph.D., Edward Mallinckrodt Professor and Chair, Department of Pathology and Immunology and Professor of Molecular Microbiology, - received a five-year, $1,926,000 renewal of grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, entitled “Immunity and Pathogenesis of a Novel Norovirus”.
Emil R. Unanue, M.D., Paul and Ellen Lacy Professor of Pathology and Immunology, - received a four-year, $1,462,592 renewal of a grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, entitled “Diabetogenic Molecular I-AG7: Chemistry and Biology”.
Emil R. Unanue, M.D., Paul and Ellen Lacy Professor of Pathology and Immunology, - received a five-year, $1,999,803 renewal of a grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, entitled “Antigen Presentation – Role of la Molecules.”
Wojciech A. Swat, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Pathology and Immunology, - received, with Jeffrey H. Miner, Ph.D., Professor of Medicine, a five-year, $1,615,000 multiple PI grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, entitled “DLGH1 and Urogenital Development”.
Wojciech A. Swat, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Pathology and Immunology, - received a five year, $550,000, Scholar Award from the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, entitled “MAGUK Proteins and Lymphocyte Development”.
Robert D. Schreiber, Ph.D., Alumni Professor of Pathology and Immunology and Professor of Molecular Microbiology, - received a three-year, $375,000 renewal of a collaborative research agreement from the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, entitled “Identification of Tumor Antigens of Tumors from Immunodeficient Mice”.
Jacqueline E. Payton, Ph.D., Instructor in Pathology and Immunology, - received a one-year, $25,000 fellowship grant from the College of American Pathologists Foundation, entitled “Genome-wide Analysis of AML: Identification of Somatic Changes and Correlation with Clinicopathological Features and Survival”.
Jacqueline E. Payton, Ph.D., Instructor in Pathology and Immunology, - received a one-year, $40,000 grant from the St. Louis Brain Tumor Research Foundation, entitled “Genome-Wide Study of Epigenetic Regulation in Pilocytic Astrocytomas”.
Mark J. Miller, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pathology and Immunology, - received a six-month, $20,000 contract from Bend Research, Inc., entitled “Kinetics of Particle Deposition & Clearance in Bone Using Targeted & Non-Targeted Fluorescent Conjugates”.
Jeffrey D. Milbrandt, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Pathology and Immunology, Medicine, and Neurology, - received a three-year, $300,000 research grant from the Muscular Dystrophy Association, entitled “Increased Nmnat Activity as Treatment for Hereditary Neuropathies”.
Michael L. McDaniel, Ph.D., Professor of Pathology and Immunology, - received a five-year $1,748,000 renewal of a grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, entitled “Secretion and Biosynthesis of Insulin”.
T. Scott Isbell, Ph.D., Clinical Fellow in Pathology and Immunology, - received a two-year, $100,000 2008 Past-Presidents’ Scholarship Award from the American Association for Clinical Chemistry’s Van Slyke Foundation to support postdoctoral training in laboratory medicine.
W. Michael Dunne, Ph.D., Professor of Pathology and Immunology, Medicine, and Molecular Microbiology, - received a one-year, $84,620 clinical/translational research grant from Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation, entitled “Development of a Ribosomal Internal Transcribed Spacer Fingerprint Database for Identification of Invasive Fungi”.
Joseph C. Corbo, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pathology and Immunology and Genetics, - received a five-year, $1,900,000 grant from the National Eye Institute, entitled “Quantitative Analysis and Engineering of the Photoreceptor Transcription Network”.
Jacques U. Baenziger, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Pathology and Immunology and Cell Biology and Physiology, - received a five-year, $3,350,398 renewal of a grant from the National Cancer Institute, entitled “Oligosaccharide Structure & Function in Recognition”.
Paul M. Allen, Ph.D., Robert L. Kroc Professor of Pathology and Immunology, - received a five-year, $3,268,463 renewal of a training grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, entitled “Training Program in Immunology and Immunogenetics”.
Robert Schreiber, Ph.D., Alumni Professor of Pathology and Immunology and Professor of Molecular Microbiology, - has been award the Carl and Gerty Cori Faculty Achievement Award
Michelle L. E. Powers, MD, resident in Pathology and Immunology - was elected Delegate of the AMA-RFS Governing Council at their 32nd Annual Meeting in Chicago by the American Medical Association Resident and Fellow Section (AMA-RFS).
D. Craig Allred, M.D., Professor of Pathology and Immunology and Surgery - was appointed Editor of a new online textbook: Breast Pathology; eMedicine by WebMD.
Craig Press, in the laboratory of Jeff Milbrandt, M.D., Ph.D., - received the 4th Annual Hope Center Awards Competition on May 8, 2008, for "Nmnat Delays Axonal Degeneration Caused by Mitochondrial and Oxidative Stress".
Thalachallour Mohanakumar, Ph.D., Professor of Surgery and Pathology and Immunology, - received the 2008 AST/Astellas Basic Science Established Investigator Award (Professor Level) on June 3, at the American Transplant Congress in Toronto.
Jack Ladenson, Ph.D., Professor, Pathology and Immunology and Interim Director, Division of Laboratory Medicine, - was appointed by Chancellor Mark Wrighton to the Committee on Institutional Conflicts of Interest.
Jennifer Lackner, Research Administrator, - received the annual Research Support Service Award from the School of Medicine on June 13.
Barbara A. Zehnbauer, Ph.D., Professor of Pathology and Immunology and Pediatrics, - received a one year, $98,000 contract from SAIC-Frederick, Inc. for the NCI Cooperative Resource - St. Louis Breast Tissue Registry as part of a study entitled “Construction of Statistically Designed Tissue Microarrays Using Pre-Existing Breast Cancer Tissues”.
Steven L. Teitelbaum, M.D., Wilma and Roswell Messing Professor of Pathology and Immunology, - received a five year, $2,624,289 renewal of a grant from the National Institute for Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases entitled “Mechanisms of RANKL Mediated Osteoclast Activation”.
Wojciech Swat, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Pathology and Immunology, - received a $14,000 biomedical research program planning award from Washington University/Pfizer.
Rakesh Nagarajan, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pathology and Immunology, - received a one year, $150,000 biomedical research program informatics award from Washington University/Pfizer.
Daved Fremont, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Pathology and Immunology and Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, - received a $14,000 biomedical research program planning award from Washington University/Pfizer.
D. Craig Allred, M.D., Professor of Pathology and Immunology, - received a five year, $525,939 subaward from a Department of Defense grant through Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory titled “Cell Polarity Regulation During Breast Cancer Progression: Novel Pathways for Diagnosis and Treatment”.
Paul Allen, Ph.D., Robert L. Kroc Professor of Pathology and Immunology, - received a $14,000 biomedical research program planning award from Washington University/Pfizer.
Jack Ladenson, Ph.D., Professor of Pathology and Immunology and Interim Director, Division of Laboratory Medicine, - was featured in the March issue of Clinical Chemistry, entitled "Inspiring Minds".
Elizabeth M. Brunt, M.D., Professor of Pathology and Immunology, - , was elected Secretary-Treasurer of the Hans Popper Hepatopathology Society, the liver pathology Companion Society of the USCAP, at its annual meeting held in conjunction with the USCAP in Denver, Colorado, in March 2008.
Jacques U. Baenziger, M.D., Professor of Pathology and Professor of Cell Biology and Physiology, - was honored with an Alumni/Faculty Award at the annual Reunion Awards Banquet on Saturday, May 10, 2008, at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel.
Haibo Zhao, M.D., Ph.D., Instructor in Pathology and Immunology, - received a three-year, $228,000 grant from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, entitled “The Role of Plekhm1 in Osteoclast Function”.
Herbert W. Virgin IV, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Pathology and Immunology and Molecular Microbiology, - received a five-year, $1,393,384 grant from the National Cancer Institute, entitled “Immunologic Control of Gammaherpesvirus Latency”.
Thaddeus Stappenbeck, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pathology and Immunology and Developmental Biology, - received a five-year, $1,520,000 grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, entitled “Responses of Intestinal Stem Cells to Epithelial Injury”.
Robert E. Schmidt, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Pathology and Immunology and Molecular Microbiology, - received a three-year, $228,000 subcontract from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation to St. Boniface Research Center, Manitoba, Canada, entitled “Mechanism of Distal Axonal Degeneration in Diabetic Sensory Neuropathy”.
Jason C. Mills, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pathology and Immunology and Developmental Biology, - received five-year, $1,577,000 grant from the National Cancer Institute, entitled “Molecular Regulation of Gastric Chief (Zymogenic) Cell Differentiation”.
Ted H. Hansen, Ph.D., Professor of Pathology and Immunology and Genetics, - received a one-year, $304,000 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, entitled “Development of a Novel WNV Vaccine to Elicit Protective T Cell Immunity”.
Ken Cadwell, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Pathology and Immunology - received a three-year, $140,000 postdoctoral fellowship from Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, entitled “Characterization of Mice Deficient in Autophagy Protein ATG16”.
Jacqueline Payton, MD, PhD, Resident in Pathology and Immunology (CP), - was one of four 2008 residents appointed to the CAP Foundation Scholar program
Andrey Shaw, M.D. - was named an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute effective January 1, 2008.
Arie Perry, M.D. - was elected to the Washington University Chapter of Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) in recognition of faculty commitment to medical education.
James S. Lewis Jr., M.D. - has been appointed as the Director of the Washington University Research Histology and Tissue Microarray Core Laboratory.
Jochen Lennerz, M.D., Ph.D., Mills Lab - received the Young Investigator Award on the Sixth International Symposia on the CGRP Family in November 2007.
Jack Ladenson, Ph.D. - was featured in the February 14, 2008, Washington University Record in an article titled “A Remarkable Vision”.
Nabeel R. Yaseen, M.D., Ph.D. - joins the Department of Pathology and Immunology as Associate Professor and Head of the Section of Hematopathology within the Division of Anatomic and Molecular Pathology.
Dengfeng Cao, M.D., Ph.D. - joins the Department of Pathology and Immunology as Assistant Professor and Director of the Washington University Research Immunohistochemistry Core Laboratory.
Elizabeth Brunt, M.D. - joins the Department of Pathology and Immunology as Professor and Head of a newly-formed Section of Liver and Gastrointestinal Pathology within the Division of Anatomic and Molecular Pathology.
Ann M. Gronowski, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Pathology - received a one-year, $80,000 2007 ICTS Novel Methodologies and Pilot Studies grant from the Washington University Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences, entitled “Formation of a Women’s Health Specimen Consortium”.
Brian T. Edelson, M.D., Ph.D., Resident in Clinical Pathology - received a five-year, $700,000 Career Award for Medical Scientists grant from Burroughs Wellcome Fund, entitled “Macrophage and Dendritic Cell Development”.
Joseph C. Corbo, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pathology and Immunology and Genetics - received a one-year, $100,000 grant from International Retinal Research Foundation, Inc., entitled “Development of Cone-Specific Drivers for Targeting Gene Therapy to the Macula”.
Gerald Morris , Resident in Pathology and Immunology (CP), - was awarded a grant from the American Medical Association Foundation’s Seed Grant Research Program.
Eric Duncavage, Resident in Pathology and Immunology (AP/CP), - was awarded a grant from the American Medical Association Foundation’s Seed Grant Research Program.
Erika C. Crouch, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Pathology and Immunology - was featured in Washington University Record during November. The article Fired Up About Teaching emphasized her love and enthusiasm regarding education.
Elizabeth M. Brunt, M.D., Professor, Pathology and Immunology - was a speaker for the Post-Graduate Course of the 58th American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases Meeting in Boston, MA, November 2, 2007. The course was Liver Diseases: Pathophysiologic Basis for the Therapy of Liver Disease. Her talk was entitled, Histopathology of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.
Arie Perry, M.D., Professor, Pathology and Immunology - was honored with a Distinguished Service Teaching Award for 2006-2007 at the Washington University School of Medicine Distinguished Service Teaching Awards Ceremony on November 8, 2007.
Erika C. Crouch, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Pathology and Immunology - was honored with the Course Master of the Year Award for 2006-2007 at the Washington University School of Medicine Distinguished Service Teaching Awards Ceremony on November 8, 2007.
Richard Burack, M.D., Ph.D., former faculty member - was honored with the Professor of the Year Award for 2006-2007 at the Washington University School of Medicine Distinguished Service Teaching Awards Ceremony on November 8, 2007.
Daved H. Fremont, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Pathology and Immunology Biochemistry and Molecular Physics - received a five-year, $1,249,636 subaward on an NIH/NIAID contract through Northwestern University titled Center for Structural Genomics of Infectious Diseases.
D. Craig Allred, M.D., Professor, Pathology and Immunology - received a one-year, $250,000 grant from The Breast Cancer Research Foundation titled Epithelial-stromal Interactions in the Progression of Non-invasive to Invasive Breast Cancer.
Robert Schreiber, Ph.D., Alumni Professor of Pathology and Immunology and Professor of Molecular Microbiology, - will receive the 2008 Washington University School of Medicine Distinguished Investigator Award. The award ceremony will take place on Wednesday, January 23, 2008 at 5:00 p.m at the Eric P. Newman Education Center (EPNEC) immediately after the Dean’s State of the School Address.
Louis P. Dehner, MD, Professor of Pathology and Immunology, - will receive the 2008 Washington University School of Medicine Distinguished Clinician Award. The award ceremony will take place on Wednesday, January 23, 2008 at 5:00 p.m at the Eric P. Newman Education Center (EPNEC) immediately after the Dean’s State of the School Address.
Helen Liapis, M.D. - was a visiting professor at the Department of Pathology of the University of Indiana, in Indianapolis. She presented the city wide case conference, and grand rounds in the Department of Pathology and the Department of Nephrology
Helen Liapis, M.D. - lectured in Instanbul at the 21st European Congress of Pathology on “Thin Basement Membrane Disease” and at the 4th Renal Pathology Satellite meeting on “Lipoprotein Glomerulopathy” and on “Glomerulocystic Kidney Disease”
Helen Liapis, M.D. - was invited to lecture at the 14th International Pediatric Nephrology Association (IPNA) meeting held in Budapest on “Phenotype-genotype Correlations in Monogenetic Glomerular Diseases”
Deborah Novack, MD, Ph.D. - received a Career Enhancement Award entitled “In Vivo Reporter for Alternative NF-kB Signaling” from the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research
F. Patrick Ross, Ph.D. - has been appointed Chairman of the Publications Committee of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research
Peter A. Humphrey, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Pathology and Immunology and Chief, Division of Anatomic and Molecular Pathology - was named the first Ladenson Professor in Pathology
Emil R. Unanue, M.D., Paul & Ellen Lacy Professor of Pathology and Immunology - received a three-year, $495,000 grant from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation titled “Antigen Presentation in Diabetic Islets of Langerhans”
Robert D. Schreiber, Ph.D., Alumni Professor of Pathology and Immunology and Professor of Molecular Microbiology - received a four-year, $450,000 grant from the Cancer Research Institute titled “Cancer Research Institute Predoctoral Training Grant”
Robert E. Schmidt, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Pathology and Immunology and Chief, Division of Neuropathology - received a five-year, $1,276,648 grant from the National Institutes of Health titled “Experimental Diabetic Autonomic Neuropathy”
Marco Colonna, M.D., Professor of Pathology and Immunology and Professor of Medicine - received a four-year, $1,155,200 grant from the National Institutes of Health titled “The Function of TREM-1 in Sepsis”
Jacques Baenziger, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Pathology and Immunology and Professor of Cell Biology & Physiology - received a one-year, $500,000 National Institutes of Health Director’s Bridge Award titled “Oligosaccharide Structure and Function in Recognition”
John Turk, M.D., Ph.D. - began an appointment to a five year term on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Biological Chemistry on July 1, 2007.
Robert Schreiber, Ph.D., Alumni Professor of Pathology and Immunology and Professor of Molecular Microbiology, - Received a three-year, $750,000 collaborative agreement from the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research titled “The Atlantic Philanthropies/Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research Clinical Discovery Program.”
Robert E. Schmidt, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Pathology and Immunology - Received a 4 year, $840,000 National Institutes of Health grant for research titled "Experimental Diabetic Autonomic Neuropathy".
Amelia Pinto, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Scholar/Virgin Lab - Has been awarded a fellowship for the 2007 W.M. Keck Postdoctoral Program in Molecular Medicine at Washington University.
Arie Perry, M.D., Associate Professor of Pathology and Immunology, Division of Neuropathology; Medical Director, Anatomic Pathology FISH Lab - Became Editor-in-Chief of Brain Pathology in January, 2007.
Michael McDaniel, Ph.D., Professor of Pathology and Immunology - Received a one-year, $249,328 National Institutes of Health Director’s Bridge Award titled “Secretion and biosynthesis of insulin.”
D. Ashley Hill, M.D., Assistant Professor of Pathology and Immunology and Pediatrics - received a two-year, $70,000 grant from Hope Street Kids titled “Genetic characterization of the pleuropulmonary blastoma family cancer syndrome.”
Joseph C. Corbo, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pathology and Immunology, Division of Neuropathology and Assistant Professor, Genetics - had an article released from the Washington University Medical Public Affairs Office on 7/25/07. The title of the article is, “Study identifies new gene therapy tools for inherited blindness”.
Donald Craig Allred, M.D. - Co-chaired a Working Group for the NIH/NCI Workshop: Strategies for Implementing Biomarker Evidence in Translational Cancer Research; Dr. Allred was also an invited speaker at Breast Oncology Grand Rounds and delivered a talk entitled "The Development and Progression of Premalignant Breast Disease to Cancer".
Donald Craig Allred, M.D. - Received a $250,000 award from the Breast Cancer Research Foundation for “Epithelial-Stromal Interactions in the Progression of Non-invasive to Invasive Breast Cancer”.
Paul M. Allen, Ph.D., Robert L. Kroc professor of pathology and immunology - Received a one-year $22,000 subcontract through the University of Maryland (Mariuzza) from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation titled “Engineering high-affinity T cell receptors as immunotherapeutics for T1D.”
Herbert Virgin, M.D., Ph.D., Edward Mallinckrodt Professor and Chairman, Pathology and Immunology, Professor of Molecular Microbiology - Editorial Board, Cell Host & Microbe.
Herbert Virgin, M.D., Ph.D., Edward Mallinckrodt Professor and Chairman, Pathology and Immunology, Professor of Molecular Microbiology - External Advisory Board, Center for Human Immunology, Institute Pasteur.
Helen Liapis, M.D., Associate Professor of Pathology and Immunology - Will be part of the WU Center for Kidney Disease Research, newly funded by NIH starting July 1, 2007.
Steven L. Teitelbaum, M.D. - Honored with the Distinguished Service Award at the Washington University School of Medicine MD Reunion Awards Banquet on May 12, 2007.
Samir K. El-Mofty DMD, MS, PhD. Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology and Associate professor of Pathology and Immunology and of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery - Elected President of the North American Society of Head and Neck Pathology (NASHNP) for a term of two years starting 2008.
Lijuan Zhang, Ph.D., assistant professor of pathology and immunology - Received a two-year, $200,000 Children’s Discovery Institute grant for research titled “Proteoglycan Regulation of Bone Growth and Development.”
Emil R. Unanue, M.D., Paul and Ellen Lacy professor of pathology and immunology - Received a one-year, $98,036 MRCE Developmental Project Grant for research titled “Development of a Novel WNV Vaccine to Elicit Protective CD8 T Cells.”
Anish Suri, Ph.D., research assistant professor of pathology and immunology - Received a three-year, $495,000 Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation grant for research titled “Antigen Presentation by Innate Immune Cells in Autoimmune Diabetes.”
D. Ashley Hill, M.D., assistant professor of pathology and immunology and pediatrics - Received a two-year, $200,000 Children’s Discovery Institute grant for research titled “Identifying the Genetic Basis of the Pleuropulmonary Blastoma (PPB) Family Cancer Syndrome.”
Marco Colonna, M.D., professor of pathology and immunology and medicine - Received a three-year, $495,000 Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation grant for research titled “The Role of mda-5 Genetic Polymorphisms in Type 1 Diabetes.”
Paul M. Allen, Ph.D., Robert L. Kroc professor of pathology and immunology - Received a five-year, $1,711,875 National Institutes of Health MERIT grant for research titled “T Cell Recognition of Antigen.”
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