Over $4.5 million in grants awarded to faculty in Pathology & Immunology
Paul Allen, PhD, Robert L. Croc Professor of Pathology and Immunology and Interim Division Chief, Immunology, received a two-year $502,139 grant from National Institutes of Health / National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, entitled “Immune Regulation by Bacteroides Polysaccharide Capsules”.
Ali Ellebedy, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pathology and Immunology, with Dr. Harinder Singh, received a five year $3,415,808 grant from the National Institutes of Health / National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, entitled “Programming Durable Immune Responses to Vaccination”.
Chang Liu, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pathology and Immunology, received a one-year $121,925 grant from the National Institutes of Health, entitled “Rapid High-Resolution Typing of Human Leukocyte Antigen Genes by Nanopore Sequencing for Transplantation”.
Thaddeus Stappenbeck, MD, PhD, Professor of Pathology and Immunology, of Developmental Biology, and Co-Chief, Division of Laboratory and Genomic Medicine, received an eighteen-month $253,500, from the Helmsley Charitable Trust, entitled “Biomarker of Innate Immunity Perturbation Sub-classifies Crohn’s Disease”.
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Dr. Ali Ellebedy also received a two-year $339,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health, entitled “Programming Broad and Durable B Cell Responses to Influenza Vaccination”.
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Nima Mosammaparast, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pathology and Immunology, was elected as a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI).
Mark Watson, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Pathology and Immunology and Director, Tissue Procurement and Multiplexed Gene Analysis Laboratories received a National Cancer Institute (NCI) Director’s Award of Merit in Clinical Science, for his work in helping to develop the National Clinical Trials Network (NCTN) Clinical Trial Specimen Resource, on November 8, 2018.
Medical students honored their teachers at the ceremony on November 15, at the Eric P. Newman Education Center (EPNEC), with the following Distinguished Service Teaching Awards for the 2017-2018 academic year:
- Erika Crouch, MD, PhD, Professor of Pathology and Immunology, Faculty of Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences, and Course Leader of Sophomore Pathology Course, received Professor of the Year (second-year award, Class of 2020).
- Brian Edelson, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pathology and Immunology, received the Distinguished Service Teaching Award (first-year award, class of 2021).
- Ian Hagemann, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pathology and Immunology and of Obstetrics and Gynecology, received the Distinguished Service Teaching Award (second-year award, class of 2020).