Professor Liang Cheng published State-of-the-Art Article on Bladder Cancer Diagnosis & Treatment this month in BMJ (Journal impact factor, 107).

Dr. Jessica Claus is the first recipient of the Alexander Feldman Travel Grant award, Association of Clinical Scientists, to attend the ACS Annual Meeting in Jacksonville, April 2-4, 2024.

We are pleased to announce the Winners of the 2024 Brown Pathology Travel Award.

WIN Consortium and Brown University announce the election of Prof. Wafik El-Deiry, Director, Legorreta Cancer Center, Associate Dean, Oncologic Sciences, Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University as Chair of the WIN Consortium beginning December 17, 2023.

Dr. Peter Lee has received the 2023 (inaugural) Mid-Career Award which was presented to him at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research (ASGSR) in Washington DC.

Professor Liang Cheng is the Chief Editor of the newly published book, MOLECULAR SURGICAL PATHOLOGY from the Springer Nature Publishing.

The Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University is calling for proposal for pilot projects.

Dr. Ece Uzun has been awarded the designation of Fellow of AMIA, or FAMIA.

Dr. Liang Cheng is the senior corresponding author of this recently published article “Spatial relationship of tertiary lymphoid structures and tumor‐associated neutrophils in bladder cancer and prognostic potential for anti‐PD‐L1 immunotherapy” in Cancer Communications (Journal Impact Factor, 16.2).

Dr. Jonathan Kurtis, Chair of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, has been selected as a 2023 award recipient of the Falk Medical Research Trust Transformational Award.

Congratulations to Professor Liang Cheng and his team for the Virchows Archiv Prize for the Best Paper, announced by the European Society of Pathology on the final day (September 13, 2023) of the 35th European Congress of Pathology in Dublin, Ireland.

Nature Communications details a new hope in the fight against malaria.

Bailey lab collaboration with UCSF and Uganda investigators to understand the evolving resistance in Africa to frontline antimalarial artemisinin resistance published in New England Journal of Medicine.

Dr. Liang Cheng, Professor and Vice Chair for Translational Research, published an article in the August issue of Cancer Cell. (Henske EP, Cheng L, Hakimi AA, Choueiri TK, Braun DA: Chromophobe Renal Cell Carcinoma. Cancer Cell 2023;41(8):1383-1388. PMID: 37541245).

Plasmodium falciparum resistant to artemisinin and diagnostics have emerged in Ethiopia.

Tumor collagens predict genetic features and patient outcomes.

Liang Cheng, MD, MS, has joined as the Associate Director for Shared Resources.

Dr. Jessica Posada, surgical pathology fellow, and her colleagues recently published an article in Clinical Cancer Research (CCR) (impact factor 13.8) which investigated a new combination therapy for patients with locally advanced pancreatic cancer (LAPC).

In order to recognize the significant contributions of Brown University faculty members as advisors or mentors to graduate students, the Graduate School invites nominations on behalf of any Brown faculty member who has served as a graduate advisor, unofficial or official mentor, trainer, or dissertation chair for the Graduate School Faculty Award for Advising & Mentoring.

Researchers launch heart tissue to the International Space Station to help cardiac patients on Earth. International Space Station experiments co-led by Peter Lee, a Brown scholar, cardiothoracic surgeon and longtime space researcher, will help inform understanding and treatment of cardiovascular disease.

The International Society of Urological Pathology (ISUP) members have elected Liang Cheng, MD as their President-Elect (2023-2025).

Dr. M. Ruhul Quddus, has been recognized by the National Cancer Institute for his subject matter expertise and outstanding contribution to reviewing histologies of the Cervix, Endometrium, Fallopian Tube, Myometrium, Ovary, and Vagina.

The Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University is pleased to announce the 2023 Pilot Project Research Grant Awardees ($25,000 per project).

We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2023 Brown Pathology Travel Award.

Dr. Anatoly Zhitkovich served as the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) selected expert to evaluate EPA's Plan to conduct Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) Assessment of Inhalation Exposure to Cobalt and Cobalt Compounds.

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.