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Pathology Mentorships
Foster Success
In
2019, two postdoctoral fellows working with Upender Manne, Ph.D., Professor, Pathology, won awards for presentations on their postdoctoral research.
One session, sponsored by the O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center, featured studies related to cancer research. Sumit Agarwal, postdoctoral fellow of Manne, won third place overall for his oral presentation In February, the UAB on the topic, “MicroRNA-124 Postdoctoral Association, in modulated collagen-prolyl collaboration with the Office of hydroxylase P4HA1 expression Postdoctoral Affairs, organized regulates colon cancer proits 16th Annual Postdoctoral gression.” Co-authors include Research Day. The event Balabhadrapatruni V. S. K. featured six sessions with Dr. Chakravarthi, Michael Behring, Victor Darley-Usmar, Professor, Hyung-Gyoon Kim, Kevin Hale, Pathology, as one of the four Abduljalil M Alsubaie, Sameer presenters of the keynote talk, Al Diffalha, Shajan Sugandha, “Twenty Years of Postdoctoral Sooryanarayana Varambally, Education at UAB.” and Manne.
In January, Michael Behring, postdoctoral fellow of Manne, won first place for his presentation while attending the Second Conference on Bioethics Issues in Minority Health and Health Disparities Research. Behring presented a lab research poster titled, ”Ethical Considerations for Observational Cancer Health Disparity Research,” co-authored with Kevin Hale, Bunyamin Ozaydin, and Manne.
fellowship certificates
• George Netto, M.D., to his postdoctoral fellow Marie-Lisa Eich, M.D.
• Frida Rosenblum, M.D., Cytopathology presented to Yiqin Zuo, M.D., Ph.D.
graduate trainees
• Sameer Al Diffalha, M.D., Gastrointestinal Pathology, to Robin Collingwood, M.D.
• Dr. Yabing Chen, Ph.D., Vice Chair, Faculty Development and Education, recognized:
• Deniz Peker, M.D., Hematopathology, to Tyler Clemmensen, M.D. and Diana Morlote, M.D.
• Anna Hanna, Cancer Biology Theme, under Dr. Lalita Samant
• Shuko Harada, M.D., Molecular Genetic Pathology, to Nirupama Singh, M.D., Ph.D. • Shi Wei, M.D., Surgical Pathology, to Joseph Drwiega, M.D., David Marbury, M.D., Lindsey Matthews, M.D. and Scott Taylor, D.O. • Marisa Marques, M.D., Transfusion Medicine, to James Sikora, M.D. • Yabing Chen, Ph.D., to her postdoctoral fellow, Helen Collins, Ph.D.
• Justin Quiles, Cell, Molecular & Developmental Biology Theme, under Dr. Rajeskaran Soorappan • Jeffrey Singer, Immunology Theme, under Dr. Casey Weaver • Jalessa Wright, Pathobiology & Molecular Medicine Theme, under Dr. John Chatham Our gratitude to Monica Henderson, Susan Mills, and Sandy Cummings for organizing this special event.
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