Pathology Young Investigators Day

Pathology Young Investigators’ Day Awards
April 7, 2004

The highest scoring individuals in each category
(Xing Fan, M.D., Ph.D.,Isamu Z. Hartman, B.S., and Chanjuan Shi, M.D., Ph.D.)
will present at Pathology Grand Rounds on 06/24/2004.

EXCELLENCE IN BASIC, CLINICAL, AND TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH

EXCELLENCE IN Clinical Research

Name	Appointment	Division	Senior Author	Poster Title
Scott James Cameron, Ph.D.	Clinical/Research Fellow	ClinicalChemistry	Sokoll	A comparative study of BNP and NT-proBNP in patients presenting to the emergency dept. with chest pain
Dengfeng Cao, M.D., Ph.D.	Housestaff	GYNPathology	Ronnett	Expression of mesothelin, fascin, prostate stem cell antigen in primary ovarian mucinoustumors and their utility in differentiating.
Esther Elishaev, M.D.	Clinical Fellow	GYNPathology	Ronnett	Metastatic endocervical adenocarcinomas sumulating primary ovarian surface epithelial neoplasms
Xing Fan, M.D., Ph.D.	Research Fellow	Neuropathology	Eberhart	Notch2 promotes, and Notch1 inhibits, the growth of embyronal brain tumors
Anil Vasdev Parwani, M.D., Ph.D.	ClinicalFellow	GU Pathology	Ali	Cytomorphologic features of atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumors

EXCELLENCE IN Basic Research

Name	Appointment	Division	Senior Author	Poster Title
Onikepe Adetoun Adegbola, M.D.	Graduate Student	Molecular Pathology	Pasternack	pp32 is a direct transcriptional target of E2F-1
Lodewijk Adriaan Anton Brosens	ResearchTrainee/Medical Student	GI Pathology	Goggins	Immunohistochemical comparison between duodenal and colonicpolyps in familial adenomatous polyposis
Sarat Kumar Dalai, Ph.D.	ResearchFellow	Immunology	Sadegh-Nasseri	B Cells in induction of anergy in memory CD4+ T cells
Mohamed Hassan Farah, Ph.D.	ResearchFellow	Neuropathology	Wong	Reduction of amyloid-B by lentiviral expression of short hairpin RNAi for BACE1 in cultured cells
Tamara Flys, B.S.	GraduateStudent	Transfusion Medicine	Eshleman, S.	Analysis of PTAP duplications in the gag p6 region of subtype C HIV-1
Mehmet Levent Guler, M.D.	ResearchFellow	Immunology	Rose	Two autoimmune disease loci influencing thymic and peripheral Tcell apoptosis control susceptibility to Experimental Autoimmune Myocarditis
Kapil Gupta	GraduateStudent	Immunology	Schneck	Role of co-receptor in modulating the membrane organization of Tcell receptors on DC8+ T cells
Isamu Z. Hartman, B.S.	Graduate Student	Immunology	Sadegh-Nasseri	An in vitro recapitulation of proteolytic antigen degradation and peptide capture by class II MHC
Sunil Suhas Karhadkar, M.B.B.S.	ResearchFellow	Urologic Pathology	Berman	Hedgehog signaling links bladder regeneration and oncogenesis
Jung-Whan Kim, D.V.M.	GraduateStudent	Pathobiology	Dang, C.V.	Transcriptional regulatory network of MYC, HIV-1 and their target genes
Fiona Mary Laird, Ph.D.	ResearchFellow	Neuropathology	Wong	BACE1 dependent APP signaling is required for learning andmemory
Ken-Yu Lin, B.S.	GraduateStudent	GYN Pathology	Wu	Ectopic expression of Vascular Cell Adhesion Molecule-1 (VCAM-1)by tumor cells allows them to escape from immune attack
Guojun Ma, M.D.	GraduateStudent	Neuropathology	Wong	Aph-1a is required for presenilin-dependent y-secretase complex assembly andenzymatic activity in mammals
Alan Keith Meeker, Ph.D.	ResearchFellow	GU Pathology	DeMarzo	Direct In Situ analysis of telomere lengths in primary prostate cancer and prostate cancer metastases
Craig Norman Morrell, D.V.M.	GraduateStudent	Comparative Medicine	Lowenstein	Mechanism of nitric oxide regulation of platelet granule exocytosis
Rajni Sharma, Ph.D.	ResearchFellow	Immunology	Burek	CTLA-4 regulation of autoimmune thyroiditis: A role of IFN-8induced indoleamine 2, 3 dioxygenase in disease
Eduardo Daniel Zamora, M.D.	ResearchFellow	Neuropathology	Troncoso	Papillomavirus-like particle Ab vaccine induces specific antibody response, and prevents behavorial impairment in APP/PS1 transgenic mice

EXCELLENCE IN Translational Research

Name	Appointment	Division	Senior Author	Poster Title
Donna Elizabeth Hansel, M.D., Ph.D.	Housestaff	GI Pathology	Biankin	Expression of CDX 1 and 2 distinguishes periampullary lesions by site of origin, tumor stage, metastatic potential, and patient outcome
Jens Koopmann, M.D.	Research Fellow	GI Pathology	Goggins	Mac-2 binding protein is a diagnostic marker for biliary tract cancer
Chanjuan Shi, M.D., Ph.D.	Research Fellow	GI Pathology	J. Eshleman	LigAmp:Sensitive Detection of Single Nucleotice Differences