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 Chair

 The Department sponsors several endowed lectureships, taking place annually. Learn more.