Pathology Faculty Appointed to Endowed Professorships 3

Cristina Magi-Galluzzi, M.D., Ph.D., Division Director, Anatomic Pathology was appointed to the C. Bruce Alexander Endowed Professorship in Pathology. Director of the Division of Anatomic Pathology, Dr. Magi-Galluzzi joined UAB just over a year ago in October 2018 from the Cleveland Clinic where she was professor. Her clinical expertise lies

in the pathological diagnosis of genitourinary diseases, including prostate, bladder, testicular, adrenal and kidney malignancies. Her research interest focuses on prostate carcinogenesis

and in the discovery and validation of

tumor markers and genomic tests of value in furthering the goals of successful treatment

and understanding of the pathogenesis of genitourinary diseases. In September 2018, she was named to The Pathologist magazine’s Power List of “100 of the best, brightest and most powerful advocates of pathology.” Yabing Chen, PhD Cristina Magi-Galluzzi, MD, PhD C. Ryan Miller, MD, PhD

Yabing Chen, Ph.D, Professor, Molecular and Cellular Pathology and Vice Chair, Faculty Development and Education was appointed to Jay M. McDonald, M.D., Endowed Professorship in Laboratory Medicine.

Chen joined the department in 2005 and also serves as Director of the Pathobiology, Pharmacology and Physiology Graduate Program. She is a senior scientist in the Center for Aging and the Center for Comprehensive Diabetes, and a scientist in the Centers for Metabolic Bone Disease, the O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Center for Free Radical Biology, and the Nutrition Obesity Research Center.

Chen is recognized for her work training and mentoring graduate students, fellows, and junior faculty across UAB. Her efforts earned her the UAB 2016 Graduate School’s Dean’s Award for Excellence in Mentorship and the School of Medicine 2019 Dean’s Excellence Award for Mentorship.

Her research focuses on uncovering the molecular mechanisms of the regulation of vascular smooth muscle cells that contribute to the pathogenesis of cardiovascular disease, including vascular calcification in atherosclerosis, arterial stiffness, diabetic vasculopathy, as well as vascular aging.

Her work has been continuously funded by grants by the NIH, Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and American Heart Association (AHA). In 2016, she received a Research Career Scientist Award from the VA Research Department, and in 2018, Chen received the prestigious Vascular Biology Special Recognition Award from the AHA’s Council on Atherosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology. Dr. and Mrs. Jay M. McDonald established the Jay M. McDonald, M.D., Endowed Professorship in Laboratory Medicine with an initial gift in 2014 that became fully endowed in 2018.

C. Ryan Miller, M.D., Ph.D., Division Director and Professor, Neuropathology was appointed to Translational Research Endowed Professorship in Pathology.

Dr. Miller joined the department last spring as Division Director, Neuropathology, coming from the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of North CarolinaChapel Hill where he was Faculty Director of the UNC Translational Pathology Laboratory. Prior to medical school, Miller completed a Ph.D. at UAB in 1999 in the department’s Cellular and Molecular Pathology graduate program. Dr. Miller’s research interests focus on novel treatment approaches for malignant gliomas based on molecular alterations for tumorigenesis using proteomic molecular analyses. He serves on the neuropathology and neuro-oncology committees of the National Cancer Institute’s Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology.