Various faculty accomplishments of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine for the month of September.

Immunotherapy fails in a significant proportion of cancer patients. But a new study in Cell Death Discovery suggests that blocking the tumor-promoting protein MDM2 could bolster the treatment’s effectiveness.

Professor Thomas B. Bartnikas has been promoted to Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine.

The July 2020 issue of Kudos, the newsletter for the Division of Biology and Medicine at Brown, recognized Department faculty who received research awards.

Jessica Plavicki has been named the Manning Assistant Professor in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine.

Layra Cintón-Rivera, a Pathobiology graduate in the Plavicki Lab, is the recipient of a NSF graduate student research fellowship.

Assistant Professor Jessica Plavicki is the recipient of an Outstanding New Environmental Scientist Award (ONES) from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.

Drs. Raj and Kurtis publish "Anti-PfGARP activates programmed cell death of parasites and reduces severe malaria” in Nature

Assistant Professor Daniel Spade, PhD, receives pilot award from the Center for Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) for Reproductive Health at Women and Infants Hospital, for the project, "Identification of sperm RNAs that predict ICSI outcomes."