Updated April 29, 2010
The CAP Foundation announces the recipients of its first Resident Research Grant awarded to residents and fellows performing Anatomic Pathology and/or Laboratory Medicine research.
Each of the following awardees will receive $2,500 for their projects focused on emerging technologies and translational research.
Dara L. Aisner, MD, PhD
University of Pennsylvania - Philadelphia, PA
Project: Identification and Validation of Gene Targets for CpG Promoter Methylation for Risk Stratification in Gastrointestinal
Stromal Tumor (GIST)
Thomas Arnason, MD
Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre - Halifax, NS
Project: The Immunohistochemical Expression and Prognostic Value of Ki67, ER, PR, HER2, EGFR, VEGF and Cox-2 in Gastroenteropancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors
Andrew H. Beck, MD
Stanford University Medical Center - Stanford, CA
Project: Computational Analysis of Tumor Morphology to Build Prognostic Models and Discover Biological Networks in Breast Cancer
Gabriel A. Bien-Willner, MD, PhD
Washington University - St. Louis, MO
Project: Idic(17)(p11.2) Rearrangement in Medulloblastomas; Diagnostic and Prognostic Significance
Benjamin W. Darbro, MD
University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics - Iowa City, IA
Project: In Silico and Experimental Analysis of a Novel Intronic LMNA DNA Variation Implicated in Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy Type IB and Dilated Cardiomyopathy
Eric Duncavage, MD
Washington University in St. Louis
Project: Classification of Merkel Cell Carcinoma and Identification of Merkel Cell Polyomavirus Targets by Gene Expression Microarrays
Ramachandra R. Gullapalli, MD, PhD
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center - Pittsburgh, PA
Project: Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering Measurements of Glycosylated Hemoglobin for Long Term Management of Diabetes Mellitus
Megan E. McNerney, MD, PhD
The University of Chicago - Chicago, IL
Project: Next-Generation Sequencing of Therapy-Related Acute Myeloid Leukemias Transcriptomes
Parham Minoo, MD, PhD
University of California - San Diego, CA
Multi-Marker Phenotype Characterizes Colorectal Cancer Patients with High Risk of Distant Metastasis
Zenggang Pan, MD, PhD
Creighton University Medical Center - Omaha, NE
Project: GCET2 Expression in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL)
Angshumoy Roy, MD, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine - Houston, TX
Project: Genetics and Epigenetics of the DLK1 Imprinted Domain
in Hepatoblastomas
Rashmi K. Shamanna, MD
Henry Ford Hospital - Detroit, MI
Project: Molecular Characterization of the Pathobiology of Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphomas Using Aurora Kinases
Yue Wu, MD
Yale - New Haven Hospital - New Haven, CT
Project: The Role of Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) Polymorphism in Premature Hypoxic Injury
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