Deepta Bhattacharya, PhD, assistant professor of pathology and immunology, has received a one-year, $151,044 grant from the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases for research titled “Diversification of ‘Innate’ Antibodies for Dengue Virus Vaccines.” …
Faculty, residents and fellows in the Division of Anatomic and Molecular Pathology presented 38 papers, six invited lectures and two courses at the 100th Annual Meeting of the U.S. and Canadian Academy of Pathology held Feb. 25-March 4, 2011 in San Antonio. Five residents won awards for their abstracts/presentations: Gabe Bien-Willner, MD, PhD, won the Stowell-Orbison Award for best poster by a trainee; Joe Gaut, MD, PhD, won the award for the best renal pathology poster; Alejandro Gru, MD, won a Certificate of Merit in the Stowell-Orbison Competition for his poster; Ta-Chiang Liu, MD, won the Hans Popper Award for best liver pathology poster; and Odey Ukpo, MD, won the award for best resident head and neck pathology poster. …
Emily Powell, PhD, a postdoctoral research scholar in the Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, has received a three-year, $324,000 postdoctoral fellowship from the Department of Defense for research titled “From Breast to Bone: Tracking Gene Expression Changes Responsible for Breast Cancer.” …
Ramesh Raghavan, MD, PhD, assistant professor at the Brown School and assistant professor of psychiatry at the School of Medicine, has received a three-year, $807,162 grant from the National Institute of Mental Health for research titled “Reducing Disparities in Mental Health Expenditure Among Children in Child Welfare.” …
Mark Scharff, music cataloger for University Libraries, was a co-presenter for a session on using and cataloging electronic theses and dissertations at the annual meeting of the Music OCLC Users Group in Philadelphia in February. The presentation touched on how the cataloging process compares to that for analog counterparts and what to do with electronic theses and dissertations that include non-textual content, such as sound or video files.