Dr. Marisa Marques, M.D., Interim Division Director, Laboratory Medicine, has been nominated to join the FDA's Blood Products Advisory Commitee (BPAC), which reviews and evaluates data concerning the safety, effectiveness, and appropriate use of blood, products derived from blood and serum or biotechnology which are intended for use in the diagnosis, prevention, or treatment of human diseases, and, as required, any other product for which the Food and Drug Administration has regulatory responsibility, and advises the Commissioner of Food and Drugs of its findings.
The Committee consists of a core of 17 voting members including the Chair. The core of the voting members may include one technically qualified member who is identified with consumer interest. In addition to the voting members, the Committee may include one nonvoting member who is identified with industry interest. Dr. Marques will serve a three-four year term.
Erin Eun-Young Ahn, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Molecular and Cellular Pathology, was recently awarded an R01 from the National Cancer Institute based on her project submission, titled, "SON-mediated RNA splicing in glioblastoma." The award began July 1, 2020 and will run through May 30, 2021. The project is expected to run through May 30, 2025.
The Department of Pathology is honored to announce the promotion and tenure of five of our esteemed faculty colleagues for 2020, effective October 1, 2020:
Shuko Harada, M.D., Genomic Diagnostics & Bioinformatics -- Promotion to Professor with Award of Tenure
Dr. Harada is the Section head of the Molecular Diagnostics Section and former Interim Director of the Division of Genomic Diagnostics & Bioinformatics. She has particular interests in precision medicine in oncology and pharmacogenomics, and is a member of the Precision Medicine Institute and the O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center.
UAB is using the Architect antibody test from Abbott. Image courtesy Abbott.Have I had COVID-19?
That is one of the biggest questions in the world right now, and many people are looking to COVID-19 antibody tests for the answer. These blood tests search for the presence of antibodies against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. The tests expose a person’s blood to (inactive) pieces of SARS-CoV-2. Antibodies are highly specific; if a person’s blood contains antibodies that bind to SARS-CoV-2, that person has probably been infected sometime in the past two weeks to several months.
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