It is a great pleasure to announce the appointment of Dr. Murray Resnick, MD, PhD as Vice Chair for Translational Research in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine.

"Cancer therapy shows promise for some brain tumors."

It gives us great pleasure to announce that, following a national search, Wafik El-Deiry, MD, PhD, FACP will join the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and Lifespan hospitals, and the Division of Hematology/Oncology within the Department of Medicine and the Lifespan Cancer Institute, in January.

A new $9.4 million federal grant to Lifespan will create a Center for Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) that will help researchers from The Miriam and Rhode Island hospitals discover ways to help address the worldwide threat of drug-resistant "superbugs."

Submit your – or a colleague’s – work for consideration for the next issue of Kudos to Pathology@brown.edu.

"Brown researchers are creating lab-grown microtissues as an alternative to animal testing."

International Conference on Prenatal Diagnosis and Therapy (ISPD), Booth #15, Antwerp, Belgium – July 10, 2018

The VALUE (VAlidation of a Lower cost aneUploidy screen) study is a three year project to provide an external evaluation of a reliable, yet low cost and easy to use cell free (cf)DNA prenatal screening test for Down syndrome in the late first and early second trimester.

Professor Lundy Braun was a recipient of the 2018 Society for the Social Studies of Science Ludwig Fleck book award for her book Breathing Race into the Machine: The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics, published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2014.

Kimberle C. Chapin, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, RIH, has been selected for the 2018 Award for Research in Clinical Microbiology by the American Society for Microbiology.

The March 2018 issue of Kudos, the newsletter for the Division of Biology and Medicine at Brown, recognized Department faculty who received research awards.

Professor James Sung has been named the College of American Pathologists’ (CAP) Commission on Laboratory Accreditation Division Commissioner for Rhode Island and Connecticut.