Yi-Ping Li, Ph.D., Jay M. McDonald Endowed Professor in Bone Pathobiology, was recently awarded an R01 award from the National Institute of Arthiritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases titled, "Characterizing the Negative Signaling in Dendritic Cells and Macrophages to Attenuate Inflammation and Bone Destruction in Rheumatoid Arthritis." The award starts in February and runs through the end of 2024.
Dr. Li's aims for the grant were to "provide important insights into the negative regulation of the cells of the immune system to effectively target inflammation and bone destruction in Rheumatoid arthritis. Knowledge gained from this study may bring forth potential superior therapeutic means for treating Rheumatoid arthritis and other inflammatory bone diseases."
In March, many of our colleagues will be recognized for their years of service working at UAB and the Department of Pathology. The UAB Service Awards proudly honors those employees who have made a significant career commitment to the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The program is designed to recognize and express appreciation to employees at each five-year milestone who have completed five or more years of service to UAB. A presentation is held in March for non-hospital employees having completed the required years of service by Dec. 31 of the preceding year.
In 2019, UAB had 1,118 employees eligible for service award recognition. Click here to meet the 2019 Service Award Recipients with 20 or more years of service. We appreciate your ongoing dedication to the continuing success of the University’s mission and vision. On Friday, March 13, the Department will host a recognition ceremony for our department's many award recipients.
Dr. Rance Chadwick Siniard, M.D., will join the UAB Department of Pathology on Monday, March 2, in the Division of Laboratory Medicine as an Assistant Professor. He joins the department from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where he was a clinical assistant professor since 2017. He served as clinical director, therapeutic apherisis, in that role since January 2019.
Siniard received his medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia in 2007, after graduating summa cum laude from Kennesaw University with an undergraduate degree in biology.
Siniard served as the medical director of UNC Hospitals Blood Donor Center from October 2017; as director of the Pathology Residency Rotation in blood banking at UNC Chapel Hill from July 2018 to present. He was Associate Medical Director, Transfusion Medicine and Special Coagulation at McLendon Clinical Laboratories at UNC Healthcare.
His research interests include hemostasis and thrombosis, specifically thrombotic microangiopathies including thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP). At UNC, he assisted in banking plasma from each TTP patient’s first apheresis procedure, which will allowed him to create a bank of research samples for additional studies. Dr. Siniard plans to continue this line of research at UAB.
On Sunday, February 16, George J. Netto, M.D., professor and Robert and Ruth Anderson Endowed Chair of the UAB Department of Pathology, took part in a ceremonial transfer of editorial leadership of the journal Modern Pathology, the scientific journal of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology. Netto succeeds John Eble, M.D., Chair, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine, as editor-in-chief of Modern Pathology. Eble served in that role for 20 years and built Modern Pathology into one of the country’s top pathology publications.
USCAP is a professional organization providing continuing medical education and translational research to improve practices and patient outcomes globally. USCAP employs modern educational delivery methods using digital assets to prepare pathologists for next-generation learning and make possible outreach to colleagues working in low-resource countries.
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