News

November 6, 2009
Amparo Villablanca and Lydia Howell have received a grant for $1.27 million over four years from the National Institute of Health for research on family-friendly policies for women with careers in medicine. This is one of 14 grants funded nationally to address the challenges of women in science. 

November 2, 2009
The clinical laboratory's move to the new Surgery and Emergency Servicesw Pavilion, and the laboratory's new state-of-the-art automation line is featured in The Insider.

November 2, 2009
The College of American Pathologists' 2009 meeting included poster presentations by faculty members Dariusz Borys, John Bishop, Denis Dwyre, and Claudia Greco, and residents Thomasina Bailey, Phillip Starshak, Kamireddy (Jyostna) Reddy. http://arpa.allenpress.com/arpaonline/?request=get-current-issue

November 2, 2009
Medical students are invited to learn about residencies and careers in pathology at an Open House for the Pathology Student Interest Group on November 30, 2009 from 5:30 to 7:30 pm at PATH 1002.  Pizza and refreshments will be served.   RSVP to: richard.cosens@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu

October 23, 2009
The new UC-wide collaboration, Athena Breast Cancer Research Program, includes key leadership roles by faculty members Robert Cardiff as the lead pathologist, and Michael Hogarth and Jose Galvez in development of informatics infrastructure. 

October 8, 2009
The  Intersociety Council for Pathology Information has chosen the Deparment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine as a  recipient of a new matching grant to enhance our medical student interest group in pathology. Nine academic pathology departments were funded nationally to encourage outstanding medical students to pursue a career in pathology.
http://www.pathologytraining.org/interestgroups.htm

October 8, 2009
The Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine's new transfusion medicine fellowship has received its first two-year accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, thanks to the hard work of fellowship director Carol Marshall, M.D.  Applications for the fellowship program are currently being accepted. 

September 21, 2009
On September 4, 2009, the UC Davis School of Medicine honored Ralph Green as he concluded 13 years of outstanding service as chair of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. Dr. Green's many accomplishments as chair included doubling of the department's annual extramural research funding, new clinical fellowships, and leadership of a UC laboratory consortium to minimize costly send-out tests. The department welcomes Dr. Green back to the general faculty to conduct his research, teach and provide clinical service. 

September 17, 2009
Regina Gandour-Edwards and Joshua Miller received pilot grant awards from UC Davis' Clinical Translational Science Center to conduct innovative research in biorepository development. 

September 17, 2009
Dr. Ishwarlal Jialal, Professor and Robert Stowell Endowed Chair received a grant under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 from the NIH, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. The project title is CRP, Diabetes, Atherothrombosis. This award is for $908,000 for two year period. Congratulations Dr. Jialal!

August 13, 2009
New grants have been awarded to the Point of Care Testing Center team. Nam Tran has received a 3 year award for $1.7 million from the American Burn Association to study rapid quantitative PCR-based detection of Staphylococcus aureus in burn sepsis patients. Gerald Kost and Richard Louie received a U54 supplemental award sourced from federal stimulus funds for rapid multi-pathogen detection and national disaster readiness. 

August 13, 2009
Lee-Way Jin and faculty at UCSF and UCLA have received a 5-year award for $1.8 million from the UC Office of the President to establish a University of California Pediatric Neuropathology Consortium (UCPNC). Precious pediatric brain specimens will be collected for research use, with a special focus on neural stem cell research. The UC Davis site will specialize in neurodevelopmental disorders affecting cognition and intellect, such as fragile X syndrome, autism spectrum disorders, and Rett syndrome.