The UAB Department of Pathology is proud to welcome two new fellows into the department this summer, joining the five UAB residents or existing fellows who are staying on to complete a fellowship with us.
The UAB Department of Pathology is pleased to announce a new faculty member joining our team July 1. Filipe Cerqueira, Ph.D., joins the Division of Laboratory Medicine, led by Director Sixto Leal, Jr., M.D., Ph.D., as an assistant professor.
Cerqueira joins the department from the University of Texas Medical Branch Department of Pathology where he recently completed his fellowship training in Clinical Health and Microbiology. He received his doctorate degree in microbiology and immunology from the University of Michigan, where he gained extensive lab experience.
David Figge, M.D., Ph.D., joins the Department of Pathology’s Division of Laboratory Medicine, led by Sixto Leal, M.D., Ph.D., as an assistant professor and Director of Clinical Immunology effective July 1.
Figge will assume the directorship role from predecessor José Lima, M.D., Associate Director, Assistant Professor, Laboratory Medicine and Director of the UAB Apheresis Service.
Daniel Tyrrell, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Division of Molecular and Cellular Pathology, has been awarded grant funding from the American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) for his study of, “Understanding Gzmk+ CD8+ T Cell Development and Activity in Aging.”
“Most studies using mice haven’t really looked at [Gzmk+] cells because people typically use young animals in research, and they tend to show up in older animals,” Tyrrell says. “We don’t really know what they do, or why they accumulate, but they could be contributing to disease.”
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