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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.”