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Pathology Notables

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”.

Andrey Shaw, M.D. - was named an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute effective January 1, 2008.

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.

Gerald Morris , Resident in Pathology and Immunology (CP), - was awarded a grant from the American Medical Association Foundation’s Seed Grant Research Program.

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”.

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.

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.

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”.

Eric Duncavage, Resident in Pathology and Immunology (AP/CP), - was awarded a grant from the American Medical Association Foundation’s Seed Grant Research Program.

Arie Perry, M.D. - was elected to the Washington University Chapter of Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) in recognition of faculty commitment to medical education.

Jacqueline Payton, MD, PhD, Resident in Pathology and Immunology (CP), - was one of four 2008 residents appointed to the CAP Foundation Scholar program

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.

Jack Ladenson, Ph.D. - was featured in the February 14, 2008, Washington University Record in an article titled “A Remarkable Vision”.

James S. Lewis Jr., M.D. - has been appointed as the Director of the Washington University Research Histology and Tissue Microarray Core Laboratory.

Departmental Event Schedules

May 9 2008 8:00AM *Anatomic and Molecular Path Conference - 3rd Floor Classroom, Peter’s Building

May 9 2008 2:00PM Autopsy Gross Sign Out Conference - Autopsy Suite, 1st Floor, West Building

May 9 2008 4:00PM Immunology Work In Progress (WIP) - Claudia Vargas (Yokoyama) / Barbara Schraml (Murphy) – Childrens Hospital, 3rd Floor Auditorium

May 13 2008 12:00PM Selected Speakers and Topics - Laboratory Medicine Classroom B

May 14 2008 4:00PM The Human Genome as a Clinical Analyte - Mark A. Watson, M.D., Ph.D.; Pathology Library, 3rd Floor West Building, Room 3723

May 15 2008 8:00AM Vancomycin MIC Drift in Staphylococcus aureus - Bradley Ford, M.D., Ph.D.; Room 7738 Clinical Sciences Research Building

Clinical Pathological Correlations

A 57-year-old man presented with a progressively enlarging central compartment neck mass. By palpation, the mass was mobile and located just above the thyroid isthmus...