Congratulations to Rakesh Patel, Ph.D., Professor, Molecular & Cellular Pathology, on his appointment as Vice Chair of Research, UAB Department of Pathology. Dr. Patel has held the interim position for more than a year. In that time, he helped to coordinate and host a Research Retreat for the Department. The program to fund translational research pilot awards stemmed from that initial retreat, and the event will take place again this year in August.
Dr. Patel received his Ph.D. from the University of Essex, UK in 1996. He moved to the U.S. to pursue post-doctoral studies at UAB in 1997, and joined the faculty of the Department of Pathology as an instructor in 1999. Currently he is Director of the UAB Center for Free Radical Biology. He maintains an internationally recognized research program, having engaged in Free Radical Research for more than 20 years. Dr. Patel has published more than 200 articles, reviews, book chapters and editorials (view list). He has organized meetings and symposia focused on oxidative stress and nitric oxide, and multiple forums including co-chairing the Oxygen Radical Gordon Research Conference in 2016. He is also a fellow of the Society for Redox Biology and Medicine (SfRBM), from which he received a Mentoring Excellence Award in 2016. He has served on the Editorial Board of FRBM for 15 years; served as Associate Editor for AJP-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology, reviews editor for the Nitric Oxide journal between 2015 and 2018, and is currently reviews editor for the Redox Biology Journal.
"Dr. Patel's contributions to bolster the Department’s research portfolio, collaborating with other centers and departments on campus, continue to improve the research environment in Pathology," Netto said.
On Friday, March 1, the Department of Pathology celebrated its faculty and staff who have served five or more years in their roles in the department. The event, held at the West Pavilion Conference Center Board Room, drew participants from across divisions and the various labs in which Pathology staff and faculty work.
Congratulations to all awardees, listed as follows with their presenters:
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PRESENTER |
AWARDEE |
SERVICE |
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Dr. George Netto |
Dr. Gregory George Davis |
25 Years |
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Dr. Xinglong Zheng |
Dr. Lawrence Albert Williams Dr. John Alexander Smith |
5 Years 25 Years |
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Dr. Ralph Sanderson |
Dr. Adam R. Wende
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5 Years |
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Dr. Cristina Magi-Galluzi |
Dr. Shi Wei |
10 Years |
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Dr. William Grizzle |
Dr. Upender Manne |
20 Years |
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Dr. Yabing Chen |
Mr. Yong Sun |
10 Years |
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Dr. Jianhua Zhang |
Mr. David G. Westbrook |
15 Years |
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Dr. Adam Wende |
Ms. Zhihuan Sum |
15 Years |
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Dr. Shi Wei |
Dr. Leona N. Council Dr. Thomas S. Winokur |
10 Years 25 Years |
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Dr. Elizabeth Brown |
Ms. Teresa K. Martin |
20 Years |
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Dr. Joseph Messina |
Dr. Konstantin Y. Gavrikov |
10 Years |
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Dr. Gene Siegal |
Dezhi Wang |
15 Years |
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Ms. Lissa Larue |
Ms. Kimberly Simmons |
10 Years |
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Ms. Traci Oden |
Ms. Kathy Coleman |
15 Years |
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Ms. Cassandra Cummings |
Ms. Sara Davis Hicks Ms. Paula Leonard |
10 Years 10 Years |
Department leaders, faculty, staff, residents and fellows alike came together in honor of Dr. Vishnu Reddy on March 12, to celebrate the dedication of the Surgical Pathology conference room in North Pavilion, Room 3554. The room was renovated to facilitate a multi-headed microscope for surgical pathology consultations. Several large screens are mounted on the walls, to allow for the sharing of the slides via telemedicine conference, both locally, among department offices, and with our partners in in the Community Pathology Practice Program, at sites in Anniston, Gadsden and Montgomery.
Dr. Reddy was joined by his family, wife Serala, son Nipun Reddy, and daughter-in-law Neha Reddy. Nipun Reddy, M.D., is an assistant professor, Gastroenterology and Hepatology at UAB, and Neha Reddy, M.D., is a Clinical Assistant Professor in Internal Medicine at UAB.
Nipun Reddy, M.D., (left) and father Vishnu Reddy, M.D. at the entrance to conference room NP3554.
In 2019 so far, two postdoctoral fellows working with Upender Manne, Ph.D., Professor, UAB Pathology, won awards for presentations on their postdoctoral research.
On Monday, February 18, the UAB Postdoctoral Association, in collaboration with the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs, organized its 16th Annual Postdoctoral Research Day. The event featured six sessions and Dr. Victor Darley-Usmar, Professor, UAB Pathology, was one of the four presenters of the keynote talk, "Twenty Years of Postdoctoral Education at UAB."
The fourth session, sponsored by the O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center, featured studies related to cancer research. Sumit Agarwal, postdoctoral fellow of Manne, gave an oral presentation on the topic, "MicroRNA-124 modulated collagen-prolyl hydroxylase P4HA1 expression regulates colon cancer progression." Co-authors include: Balabhadrapatruni V. S. K. Chakravarthi, Michael Behring, Hyung-Gyoon Kim, Kevin Hale, Abduljalil M Alsubaie, Sameer Al Diffalha, Shajan Sugandha, Sooryanarayana Varambally, and Manne. Agarwal won third place overall for the day's events for his presentation.
In January, Michael Behring, postdoctoral fellow of Manne, attended the Second Conference on Bioethics Issues in Minority Health and Health Disparities Research. Behring presented a lab research poster titled, “Ethical Considerations for Observational Cancer Health Disparity Research,” co-authored with Kevin Hale, Bunyamin Ozaydin, and Manne.
Behring won first place for his presentation. Congratulations to both on these honors!
On February 19, Mark Pepin, Medical Scientist Training Program (below, left) student mentee of Adam Wende, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Pathology, (below, right) successfully defended his dissertation, "Genetic and Epigenetic Underpinnings of End-Stage Human Heart Failure," to receive his M.D., Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering.
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