Assistant Professor (Research), Dipak Raj, PhD, receives new R01 for Malaria vaccine studies.

Assistant Professor (Research), Christian Nixon, MD, PhD, receives new NIH R01 for malaria vaccine studies.

Dr. Thomas Bartnikas, Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, publishes a high-profile article titled, "Manganese transporter Slc30a10 controls physiological manganese excretion and toxicity" in JCI.

It is a great honor as we congratulate Sir Nicholas Wald, MBBS, DSc, Consultant of our Division of Medical Screening and Special Testing of Women & Infants Hospital and Adjunct Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine of Alpert Medical School of Brown University, elected to the prestigious National Academy of Medicine (NAM).

Early-career researcher Jessica Plavi​cki is advancing understanding of how environmental contaminants interfere with heart and brain development — the formidable task of establishing her new lab should prove fruitful for decades to come.

Dr. Kimberle Chapin was the Lead Torch Bearer at the 6th annual C is for Cure: A Water Fire Lighting for Rhode Island Defeats Hep C on Saturday, August 3, 2019.

Dr. Anthony and Dr. Resnick have been recognized as "Top Docs" in RI Monthly.

Lena Joesch-Cohen was awarded the Biology Undergraduate Education Senior Biology Prize for Academic Excellence in the Biological Sciences and Shoshana Rosenzweig was awarded the Center for Computational Molecular Biology Honors Thesis Award.

Dr. Wafik El-Deiry joins the Frontiers in Oncology research journal as Section Chief Editor for the Cancer Molecular Targets and Therapeutics section.

Drs. Luba Dumeno, L. Corey Hanley, Joyce Ou, and Mariana Canepa were each identified as a "positive champion of the learning environment" by Warren Alpert Medical School.

Jake Kurtis received a 2018 OVPR research seed award to identify novel drugs for the treatment of falciparum malaria in children.

The study, conducted in 647 mother-infant pairs examined the role of maternal antibodies in protecting infants from malaria infection and disease.

C. James Sung, MD, Professor of Pathology, was awarded $20,000 by the Luke Charitable Foundation of Rhode Island in December 2018 in support of the International Visiting Fellowship in Gynecologic Pathology, Breast Pathology and Perinatal Pathology.

Joyce Ou, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Pathology, was awarded $75,000 by Swim Across America in December 2018 in support of her research entitled “Genomic signatures of tumor evolution: a search for novel markers of endometrial cancer”.