The UAB Department of Pathology on Tuesday, November 13, welcomed world-renowned expert in glycobiology Richard Cummings, Ph.D., Professor, Harvard Medicine, to present the fifth annual John Jay Listinsky Endowed Lecture in Glycobiology.
Cummings, an Alabama native, is Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Director, HMS Center for Glycoscience, and Director, National Center for Functional Glycomics. The topic of his lecture was "Integration of Glycomics, Immunology, and Infectious Disease."
Cummings presented his lecture, held in the Comprehensive Cancer Center's Wallace Tumor Institute, to a standing-room only audience.
Richard Cummings, M.D., presents his lecture on "Integration of Glycomics, Immunology and Infectious Disease," to a standing-room only audience.
Dr. Jay John Listinsky, an adjunct associate professor of pathology at UAB at the time of his untimely death in 2012, originally trained as a diagnostic radiologist but had a decades-long interest in fucosylated molecules and their overlapping physiologic properties. He collaborated with investigators in the Division of Anatomic Pathology for many years, which generated a number of novel manuscripts which added important data to the knowledge base of glycobiology. To further this work, his friends, colleagues, and family, spearheaded by his wife and UAB pathologist, Cathy, endowed this lectureship for future generations. Learn more.
From left to right: Ralph Sanderson, Ph.D., Division Director, Molecular & Cellular Pathology; Richard Cummings, M.D., Cathy Listinsky, M.D., former UAB Pathologist, and Gene Siegal, M.D., Ph.D., Professor & Vice ChairThe Department sponsors several endowed lectureships, taking place annually. Learn more.
On Friday, November 16, UAB's Comprehensive Cancer Center held its 20th annual Research Retreat, with the theme of "Developmental Therapeutics," at The Club atop Red Mountain.
The Department of Pathology had a strong showing at the event, with students and faculty presenting dozens of posters. Postdoctoral fellow Darshan Chandrashekar, Ph.D., presented the afternoon lecture on "UALCAN: An Integrated Data-mining Platform to Facilitate the Comprehensive Analysis of Cancer Transcriptome." The UALCAN tool has been cited on numerous papers and the website has been visited 93,000 times since it launched in January 2017. Learn more.
The daylong event capped off with the announcement of the Albert F. LoBuglio Distinguished Faculty Award, presented to a faculty member of the CCC who has made distinguished contributions to the research activities of the Center. Michael Birrer, M.D., Ph.D., Director of the CCC, presented to Pathology faculty and CCC member Upender Manne, M.D., with the award. This is the 17th time the award has been presented; previous winners from the department include Ralph Sanderson, Ph.D., Division Director, Molecular & Cellular Pathology, in 2017; and William Grizzle, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, in 2005.
Upender Manne, M.D., above left, receives the Albert F. LoBuglio Distinguished Faculty Award from Michael Birrer, M.D., at the CCC's annual Research Retreat.
The UAB Department of Pathology is proud to recognize Anna Yemelyanova, M.D., as the inaugural Hazel Gore, M.D., Endowed Professorship in Gynecologic Pathology, generously supported by the Gore family. The University of Alabama Board of Trustees approved the nomination October 1.
Yemelyanova joined our team as Professor in the Division of Anatomic Pathology and Director of the Gynecologic Pathology Section in spring of 2018. In addition, Dr. Yemelyanova has the role of Associate Director of our Division of Genomic Diagnostics and Bioinformatics, led by Interim Division Director Shuko Harada, M.D.
Anna Yemelyanova, M.D.
Yemelanova’s previous professional appointments include Associate Professor of Pathology at the Gynecologic Pathology Division at the University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, and Assistant Professor of Pathology at the Division of Gynecologic Pathology at Johns Hopkins University.
Two of our distinguished faculty have achieved emeritus status in the Department of Pathology. Congratulations to Dennis Kucik, M.D., Associate Professor, Pathology, and R. Pat Bucy, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Laboratory Medicine.
Dennis Kucik, M.D., retired on December 31, 2016. Dennis joined UAB’s Department of Pathology, Division of Laboratory Medicine in August of 1997. In 2003 he was appointed Chief of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Birmingham Veterans Administration Medical Center. In addition to his invaluable service with the VA, Kucik maintained an active research portfolio during his career. He has been recognized nationally for his achievements related to his NASA-funded research project using both cell and animal models to determine the mechanism of radiation-induced aortic endothelial cell adhesiveness and its consequences for atherosclerosis. His research helped predict the risks associated with interplanetary travel for astronauts, as well as develop countermeasures to mitigate the adverse effects of prolonged exposure to cosmic radiation. Dr. Kucik served as a mentor to many UAB graduate students and Pathology residents throughout the years.
R. Pat Bucy, M.D., Ph.D., retired from active service at UAB on October 1, 2018 and was appointed Professor Emeritus. He began his scientific career studying physical organic chemistry while in college, graduating in 1975 from Austin College in Sherman, Texas. He joined the Medical Scientist Training Program at Washington University (one of only three in the nation with full funding at the time) in the fall of 1975. Bucy completed his Ph.D. in cellular immunology with a focus on the Ir gene control of immune responses to insulin and graduated in 1981 with both an M.D. and Ph.D. He completed a residency in Anatomic Pathology at Washington University and joined the Faculty there as Assistant Professor in 1984. Bucy joined UAB in 1987.
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