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”.

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.