2018 Pathology News

December 2018

Bos Lab

• 1. https://www.massey.vcu.edu/about/news-center/2019-archive/massey-researcher-awarded-650000-to-study-how-immune-cells-affect-the-spread-of-breast-cancer-to-the-brain/

Harrell Lab

• https://news.vcu.edu/article/There_are_no_targeted_drugs_to_treat_triplenegative_breast_cancer  
• Chuck Harrell was named to the Editorial Board of Scientific Reports.
• Graeme Murray, MD/PhD student in Jason Reed’s lab (Department of Physics) co-mentored by Chuck Harrell, was name a Wright Scholar. Funds from the Wright endowment will offset School of Medicine tuition, fees, and stipend costs.

Congratulations to members of the Harrell Lab (Tia Turner, Mohammad Al-Zubi, Sahib Sohal, and Chuck Harrell) for their publication with the Reed Lab (Department of Physics). https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsomega.8b02224 

Congratulations to Janakiram Vangala and Senthil Radhakrishnan for their publication!
http://www.jbc.org/content/early/2018/12/17/jbc.RA118.006290.abstract 

Chuck Harrell and Tia Turner are investigators on a grant awarded by the PhRMA foundation to Dr. Mikhail Dozmorov (Biostatistics); “Druggable 3D genomics of metastasis”! The grant will focus on utilizing Hi-C to identify differences in chromatin interactions in patient-derived xenograft mammary tumors and metastases.

Tia Turner was awarded a F30 fellowship by the NCI!