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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”.

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

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

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”.

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”.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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...