Goodbye UTIs: Duke scientists develop vaccine strategy for urinary tract infections

Giselle López, MD PhD is one of three recipients of the Duke Clinical and Translational Science Institute KL2 Award, which will allow her to pursue studies on hypercellular nodules in the oligodendroglioma tumor microenvironment, and their impact on prognosis.

Thomas J. Cummings, MD, Professor of Pathology and Ophthalmology, and Residency Program Director, and co-authors published: “Multisite Quality Improvement Study of a Patient-Pathologist Consultation Program” in The American Journal of Clinical Pathology.

I am very pleased to announce that Chanjuan Shi, MD PhD, has been appointed Chief of the Gastrointestinal Pathology Service.

Zoe Loh, a third-year doctoral student in the Department of Pathology, has been awarded the Bass Instructor of Record Fellowship. The Bass Fellowship supports high-quality teaching experiences for PhD students where normal means of funding are unavailable.

The Duke Cancer Institute has announced a reconfiguration of its National Cancer Institute-Designated Research Programs effective January 1, 2021. 

The Mike Slive Foundation has awarded a grant to Ming Chen, PhD to test whether the induction of ferroptosis can help slow the growth of neuroendocrine prostate cancer in preclinical animal models and to determine how it works.

Elizabeth N. Pavlisko, MD has been selected as a Duke Clinical Leadership Program (DCLP) Fellow. 

"The Pathology Report" our 2020 Fall Newsletter, is ready for you. Check it out on Issuu to read and download.

Jung Wook Park, PhD, holder of the endowed Rollie Assistant Professorship in Correlative Pathology, was named recently as one of 27 recipients nationwide of the Class of 2020 Young Investigator Award from the Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF).