Two of our distinguished professors have been appointed to endowed professorships:
Yabing Chen, Ph.D, Professor, Molecular & Cellular Pathology and Vice Chair, Faculty Development and Education, is appointed to the Jay M. McDonald, M.D., Endowed Professorship in Laboratory Medicine.
C. Ryan Miller, M.D., Ph.D., Division Director and Professor, Neuropathology, is appointed to the Translational Research Endowed Professorship in Pathology.
Gene Siegal, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Anatomic Pathology and Executive Vice Chair, was sworn in as incoming president of the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP), a national organization that brings together more than 100,000 anatomic and clinical pathologists, residents and fellows, medical laboratory professionals and students. It is the world's largest professional membership organization for pathologists and laboratory professionals, and has been in operation since 1922.
Siegal began his role as president at the ASCP 2019 Annual Meeting, held September 11-13 in Phoenix, Arizona. He takes over the position from James Wiscarver, M.D., Ph.D., FASCP, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE. He will serve as president for the 2019-2020 term.
Dr. Siegal is editor-in-chief of the journal Laboratory Investigation.
Read his full bio in the ASCP press release here.
Dr. Yabing Chen, Professor, Molecular & Cellular Pathology and Vice Chair, Faculty Development and Education, was honored recently as a 2019 Outstanding Faculty Senate Committee Member. Chen celebrated with other School of Medicine award recipients at a reception attended by Dean Selwyn Vickers, M.D. and hosted by President Ray Watts, M.D. at the UAB Woodward House, on August 28, 2019.
Dr. Ray Watts with Dr. Yabing Chen
UAB Pathology recently welcomed a world-renowned expert on heparanese Israel Vlodavsky, Ph.D., to present the sixth annual John Jay Listinsky Lecture in Glycobiology. On Friday, August 30, Vlodavsky traveled from Israel's Technion Integrated Cancer Center, where he heads the Tumor Biology Lab, to lecture on "Heparanese: From Basic Research to Novel Therapeutics for Cancer Inflammation."
Vlodavsky is the world's leading expert on heparanese, an enzyme that cleaves heparan sulfate, who has authored more than 400 articles mosty related to this remarkable enzyme that plays a key role in cancer progression and inflammation. He has worked for decades on heparanese cancer research with UAB Pathology Division Director Ralph Sanderson, Ph.D., Molecular & Cellular Pathology.
From left: Dr. Ralph Sanderson, MCP Division Director with longtime collaborator Dr. Israel Vlodavsky and Dr. Gene Siegal, Executive Vice Chair, UAB Pathology
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