Featuring: Vladimir Badovinac, PhD; Amani Bashir, MBBS; Andrew Bellizzi, MD; Dustin Bosch, MD, PhD; Brooks Jackson, MD, MBA; Amr Masaadeh, MBBS; Steven Moore, MD, PhD

Megan Samuelson, MD, clinical associate professor and director of anatomic pathology in the Department of Pathology, received the Jo Ann Benda Surgical Pathology Professorship during a Carver College of Medicine investiture ceremony on April 17.

Mohit Upadhye successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation on March 27, 2025, completing the Experimental Pathology graduate program in Dr. Nitin Karandikar’s lab at the University of Iowa. His dissertation, titled “myelin-reactive CD8+ T cells influence conventional dendritic cell subsets towards a mature and regulatory phenotype in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE),” uncovers a novel immunoregulatory role for CD8+ T cells in the context of multiple sclerosis (MS), an autoimmune demyelinating disease of the central nervous system (CNS).

Featuring: Anand Rajan KD, MBBS

Featuring: Vladimir Badovinac, PhD; Roger Berton, PhD; Matthew Gosse, MD; John Harty, PhD; Mohammad Heidarian, MSc; Shravan Kumar Kannan, MS; David K. Meyerholz, DVM, PhD; Andrean Simons-Burnett, PhD

Elizabeth Escue successfully defended her M.S. thesis on March 26, 2025, completing the Pathology M.S. program. Her thesis, titled The Ability of Memory CD8 T Cell Subsets to Numerically and Functionally Recover Following Whole-Body Irradiation is Influenced by Their History of Cognate Antigen Exposures, explores the impact of whole-body irradiation (WBI) on memory CD8 T cells with repeated cognate-antigen (cognate-Ag) exposures.

Featuring: Michael Henry, PhD; Vincent Liu, MD, FAAD; David K. Meyerholz, DVM, PhD; Meredith Parsons, MD; Anand Rajan KD, MBBS; Annette Schlueter, MD, PhD

A recent article in The Conversation U.S. highlights cutting-edge research from the Mangalam Lab in the Department of Pathology at the University of Iowa, based on their newly published study in PNAS. The study uncovers a key link between gut microbiota and multiple sclerosis (MS), identifying a specific bacterial ratio that may act as a biomarker for the disease and help predict its severity.

Featuring: Anthony Avellino, BS, MS; Xiaochun Han; Jiaqing Hao, PhD; Sarah Hornberg, BS, MLS (ASCP); Xingshan Jiang, PhD; Anna Merrill, PhD, DABCC; Bing Li, PhD; Shanshan Liu, PhD; Anthony N. Snow, MD; Yiqin Xiong, MD, PhD; Zhaohua Wang, PhD; Jianyu Yu, MS

Featuring: Dustin Bosch, MD, PhD; Mohamed Eletrebi, MBBCh; Amr Masaadeh, MBBS; Douglas Spitz, PhD