The Cancer Letter (TLC) - Inside information on cancer research and drug development.

Over the past year, I noticed several books written by giants in our field, people everyone knows, people I am honored to know personally.

Persistence, Agility and Cancer Research. The Medicine Mentors podcast with Dr. Wafik El-Diery.

Could Rhode Island become the next cancer research hub?

Michelle Kossack, PhD, a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Plavicki Lab, received a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship (Parent F32) from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.

Great to see Dr. Attila Seyhan in the NY Times Article.

Dr. Elizabeth Arslanian has joined the Pathology faculty as an Instructor (Research) and will be working in Dr. El-Deiry's lab.

Dr. Wafik El-Deiry's commentary in hematology/oncology regarding metastatic colorectal cancer and immunotherapy-resistant tumors.

The El-Deiry Lab is thrilled to be working with incredibly talented students, residents, fellows and faculty colleagues.

A new Oncotarget interview with Dr. El-Deiry and a former MD/PhD student in his lab on the paper

Bassam Aswad, MD, Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Clinician Educator and Dongfen Chen, MD, Instructor in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Clinician Educator have been appointed to the faculty at the Providence VA Medical Center.

Various announcements regarding the Pathology Faculty of the Women & Infants Hospital.

Amy Sousa, Department Manager and Laura Kalafarski, Administrative Coordinator are recipients of the Division's Spring Bonus Program.

Dr. Douglas Anthony, Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Professor of Neurology and Chief of Pathology at The Miriam Hospital and Rhode Island Hospital was installed as Vice President-Elect of the American Association of Neuropathologists (AANP) at their annual meeting in St. Louis.

Wafik S. El-Deiry, MD, PhD, FACP has been ranked at #6 on the LARVOL VIEW Top 100 list of the most influential Digital Opinion Leaders (DOLs) in oncology on Twitter.

Dr. Kamaljeet Singh has joined the department as Associate Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine of Brown University and Director of Breast Pathology and Associate Director of the Clinical Hematology Lab under the direction of Dr. James Sung, Chief of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Women & Infants Hospital.

This annual award recognizes Dr. Jessica Plavicki in the Division of Biology and Medicine for her outstanding teaching, advising and mentoring of students in the Undergraduate Divisional Programs in the Biological Sciences along with teaching excellence within courses.

The Clinical Faculty Advisory Committee (CFAC) of The Warren Alpert Medical School, has selected Dr. Maria Garcia-Moliner to receive a 2021 Dean’s Excellence in Teaching Award.

The Clinical Faculty Advisory Committee (CFAC) of The Warren Alpert Medical School, has selected Dr. L. Corey Hanley to receive a 2021 Dean’s Excellence in Teaching Award.

Kelsey Huntington, pathobiology graduate student working in Wafik El-Deiry's lab, received the American Association for Cancer Research-Women in Cancer Research (WICR) Council Scholar Award.

Dr. Glenn Palomaki was named Associate Editor for the Journal of Medical Screening.

Dr. Gundogan was elected as a member of the Board of Directors of the Society for Pediatric Pathology (2021-2025).

Shannon Martin, 4th Pathobiology Graduate Student in the Plavicki Lab, received a Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award (F31) from NHBLI.

Dr. Priya Banerjee is at home with mementos of the dead.

Professor Anatoly Zhitkovich, PhD, receives an R01 from NIEHS for project, “Nickel and toxic topoisomerase I products.”

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."

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”.