On December 1, 2022, the Editorial Office of Cancer Drug Resistance (CDR) was very honored to interview Journal Editorial Board member Prof. Wafik S. El-Deiry, who is Associate Dean for Oncologic Sciences at the Warren Alpert Medical School, Director of the Cancer Center at Brown University, and Director of the Joint Program in Cancer Biology at Brown University and Affiliated Hospitals, Providence, RI, USA.

Dr. Liang Cheng, Vice Chair for Translational Research, has had a State of the Art review paper published in The BMJ (the journal impact factor, 93).

Dr. Anatoly Zhitkovich, Professor of Pathology, has been selected to serve on the EPA Science Advisory Board (SAB) Hexavalent Chromium Review Panel.

Various news announcements from the Women & Infants Hospital.

Dr. Sheldon Holder has received the Trailblazer Award of $75,000.

Pathology residents have selected Dr. Katelyn Dannheim to receive this year's Ronald A. DeLellis Mentoring Award for Outstanding Mentoring.

Dr. Kamaljeet Singh was awarded the 2022 W. Dwayne Lawrence Award for Excellence in Diagnostic Surgical Pathology.

Undergraduate Student Andrew George has been awarded the Clapp Prize for Outstanding Senior Honors Thesis in Biochemistry for contributions to the cancer immunotherapy hyper-progression model & molecular signatures.

Please join me in congratulating Dr. Abigail Alexander on being awarded for the second time in a row, the American Academy of Neuropathologists (AANP) Trainee Travel Award for her research entitled "Cortical-sparing Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CS-CTE): Categorizing a Distinct Pathological Subtype of CTE" at the 98th Annual Meeting in Bonita Springs Florida.

Sophia Zheng performed her undergraduate senior thesis work in the Boekelheide Lab.

Dr. Wafik El-Deiry has received the Inventor of the Year Award from Brown University.

Dr. Ece Uzun, Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine has received the Karen T. Romer Award for Excellence in Advising.

Ece Uzun lauded by the Dean of the College for excellence in advising.

Legoretta Cancer Center Director, Dr. Wafik El-Deiry, testified before the Rhode Island House of Representatives on Bill 8008 regarding Data Sharing in Medical Research for all Rhode Islanders which was introduced by Representative Mia Akerman.

Dr. Wafik El-Deiry addressed the Rhode Island Legislature.

Honored to present the opening lecture at the @hopkinskimmel⁩ 4th Quarter Cancer Biology Course on March 28, 2022.

Kelsey Huntington was awarded the NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (#NRSA) Individual Predoctoral Fellowship (#F31) by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) on her first-round grant application titled “Small-molecule Inhibition of Glycogen Synthase Kinase-3 Sensitizes Colorectal Cancer Cells and Stimulates Immune Cells to Bolster Immune Cell-mediated Tumor Cytotoxicity”.

The El-Deiry Lab and its collaborators will have 23 presentations at the upcoming AACR annual meeting from April 8-13, 2022 in New Orleans, LA.

Members of the El-Deiry Lab will present at the upcoming meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)

Dr. El-Deiry published a guest editorial in The Cancer Letter on March 4, 2022.

Two new publications involving Pathobiology graduate students, other El-DEIRY lab members, and collaborating faculty at Brown clinical Departments and Lifespan Hospitals.

Project Title: FIA-Morehouse School of Medicine and the Legorreta Cancer Center at Brown University

The Legorreta Cancer Center at Brown University has been approved for full membership in the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC).

The Legorreta Cancer Center at Brown University announces the awardees of the 2022 Pilot grant competition.

Dr. Eric Darling, Associate Professor of Medical Science was recently awarded a Research Experience for Teachers.

Dr. Jeffrey Morgan's PLM paper was published in Advanced Science (IF 16.8) and is being covered by a Brown press release.

Dr. Wafik El-Deiry will be the Co-Chair of the Global Cancer Consortium's P53 Therapeutics Mini-Symposium in August, 2022.

Dr. Karl Kelsey has a new paper in Nature Communications.

Dr. Wafik El-Deiry analyzes Freireich’s “Seven Laws To Protect Against Obstacles To Clinical Research” in the current issue of The Cancer Letter.

Dr. Kurtis is the cover story in the January-March, 2022 issue of Brown Alumni Magazine (BAM).

Dr. Weibiao Cao has had two abstracts accepted by the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP) to be presented in March, 2022 at the LA Convention Center.

Dr. Suzanne de la Monte, Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Professor of Neurosurgery and Chief of Pathology at the Providence VA Medical Center is profiled in the Boston Globe article "Thank You Scientists."

Amanda E. Ruiz, graduate student in Pathobiology, received $150,000 for the “Whole Proteome Differential Screening for the Identification of Novel Schistosomiasis Japonica Vaccine Candidates,” an HHMI Gilliam Fellowship for Advanced Study from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Michelle Kossack, graduate student in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, received $66,390 for “Vascularization of the ovary and its contribution to oocyte health” from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS).

Jeffrey Bailey, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, received $166,742 for “Tracking the flow of malaria parasites and drug resistance within the DRC and across its borders” from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).

Lauchlan Fellow Elizabeth Arslanian, MD and departmental faculty have 3 abstracts accepted for presentation at the United States & Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP) in March 2022.

The Cancer Center at Brown was renamed the Legorreta Cancer Center at Brown University because of the donation by Pablo G. Legorreta P’21 and Almudena Legorreta P’21

Layra Cintrón-Rivera, a 4th year Pathobiology graduate student in the Plavicki Lab has won the Charles Kuhn Graduate Award in Disease Pathogenesis.

Dr. Jonathan Kurtis is a senior author on the paper titled "A newly characterized malaria antigen on erythrocyte and merozoite surfaces induces parasite inhibitory antibodies" published in the Journal of Experimental Medicine (JEM).

Dr. Jonathan Kurtis has received a Warren Alpert Foundation Research Grant titled mRNA vaccines for falciparum malaria.

Dr. Suzanne De La Monte, Chief of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Providence VA Medical Center has received two R01 Awards from the National Institute of Health (NIH).

Congratulations #eldeirylab members Shuai Zhao, Kelsey Huntington, Sofia Leaf, & Lindsey Carlsen on 4 exciting cancer research publications.

Dr. Wafik S. El-Deiry from The Brown University as well as The Lifespan Health System said, “Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second leading cause of cancer death worldwide and its incidence has been steadily rising in recent decades, with nearly 2 million new cases diagnosed around the world in 2020."

Dr. Wafik El-Deiry has been named the Associate Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Cancer Research.

Dr. Geralyn Messerlian has been elected Secretary (2021-2024) - Endocrine Division for the American Academy for Clinical Chemistry (AACC).

The Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine successfully passed the College of American Pathologist (CAP) laboratory accreditation inspection on July 20, 2021.

In collaboration with Barbara Stonestreet at WIH, while the work was focused on hypoxic-ischemic brain damage in neonates, this paper reported the major findings of the neuroprotective effects of protein therapeutics in adult and aging animals with ischemic stroke.

Dr. Mohammad Quddus has been appointed to the CMFA Committee at the Alpert Medical School.

Yvonne Rericha, a doctoral student under the mentorship of Center Director Robyn Tanguay, Ph.D., at the Oregon State University SRP Center will travel to Rhode Island to work with Robbert Creton, Ph.D., and Jessica Plavicki, Ph.D., at the Brown University SRP Center.