April 30, 2013
Assistant Professor, Dr. Mingyi Chen along with Dean Claire Pomeroy recently had an article published in the prestigious Science journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States (PNAS) entitled, Murine natural killer cell licensing and regulation by T regulatory cells in viral responses.

For a copy of the article, please visit:
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/04/12/1218767110.abstract

April 26, 2013
Professor Lee-Way Jin received a $250,000 award from the BrightFocus Foundation for his study "KCa3.1 Blockers for Alzheimer's Disease Therapy".

Our Transfusion Medicine fellowship, under the leadership of program director, Dr. Carol Marshall, received a full 5-year accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.

April 16, 2013

Three of our faculty are featured in the Neuroscience Symposium on 04/22-04/24 co-sponsored by UCDHS and Academia Sinica, Taiwan's equivalent of the National Academy Science.  Dr. Lee-Way Jin and Dr. Hwai-Jong Cheng are each chairing sessions, and Dr. Ralph Green is a speaker.

Asst. Professor Dr. Nam Tran and his point-of-care technology team will be presenting five abstracts at the American Burn Association's annual meeting, April 24-26, including a platform presentation by medical student, Erin Howell, recipient of a medical student research fellowhip.

April 10, 2013
Vice Chair of Strategic Technologies, Dr. Richard Levenson, participated in the National Cancer Institutes' Provocative Questions panel on intravital imaging to identify compelling research questions that explore subjects that currently aren't studied.  The best questions wlll be selected for a funding opportunity that will be open to the national research community.

April 1, 2013
Faculty members Dr. Kristin Olson and Dr. Ishwarlal Jialal are participating in the annual Leadership Forum for the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) on April 3-7.  Dr. Olson is a member of the editorial board for the ASCP Case Report program, and Dr. Jialal is a member of the editorial board for the American Journal of Clinical Pathology.

March 25, 2013
A biosensor to quickly and cost-effectively identify pathogens causing urinary tract infections has been developed by Dr. Nam Tran and his team of biomedical engineering students who will participate in the National Undergraduate Global Health Technology Design Competition at Rice University on April 5, 2013.

March 11, 2013
Professor Peter Barry received a R01 grant for $2,807,934 from the National Institute of Health for his project "Prevention of Primary HCMV Infection by Vaccination Against HCMV-Encoded IL-10".

March 8, 2013
We welcome our first pathology assistant student, Susan Louie, who will spend a 14 week rotation at UCDHS as part of a collaborative relationship with Drexel University.

Chair Lydia Howell was a guest speaker at Loma Linda University's Dept. of Pathology & Anatomy's Alumni Reunion on February 28.  Her presentations included "Generational and Gender Differences Toward Career Flexibility and Work-Life Balance" and "Surviving Disruption in Cytopathology: Creativity, Quality, and Core Service".

Assistant professor Joo Song received a $50,000 fellowship award from the University of California's Center for Health Quality and Innovation for his project "Expand the UC Davis Pathology Consortium to Southern California Medical Centers."

February 19, 2013
Assistant Professor Mingyi Chen will speak on "Lectin-like Oxidized Receptor-1 in Atherosclerosis and Sickle Cell Disease Vasculopathy" at the Society for Cardiovascular Pathology's Companion Meeting at the US & Canadian Academy of Pathology, March 2-8 in Baltimore.

Eight posters from our department will be featured at the upcoming US & Canadian Academy of Pathology, March 2-8 in Baltimore.  Five are from our housestaff:  Drs. Christina DiLoreto, Benjamin Durham, Nicole Pele, Meighan Tomic and Michael Van Ness.  Special thanks to all our faculty involved as presenters, mentors, and collaborators:  Drs. Afify, Bishop, Borowsky, Borys, Cardiff, Chen, Gandour-Edwards, Green, Huang, Zhang.

Richard Levenson, Vice Chair of Strategic Technologies, has been appointed to the editorial board of the Journal of OncoPathology.

February 12, 2013
Assistant Professor, Dr. Christopher Polage, has been selected to serve as one of the 24 Associate Science Advisors for Science's sister journal, Science Translational Medicine.

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