Aaron Amundson, DO, as part of the collaborative paper, “Increased Incidence of Invasive Group A Streptococcus Infections and Fatalities in Southern Wisconsin” has received the Eckert Award, Second Place at the 2026 NAME Annual Meeting.

Featuring: Anthony Avellino, BS, MS; Xiaochun Han; Jiaqing Hao, PhD; Carol Holman, MD, PhD; Xingshan Jiang, PhD; Matthew Krasowski, MD, PhD; Bing Li, PhD; David Meyerholz, DVM, PhD; Subhashis Mitra, MBBS, MD, MBA; Jianyu Yu, MS

October's recipients are Jennifer Elwood and Emily Newcomb

Congratulations to Souradip Sinha, BS MS, a doctoral student in Munir Tanas, MD’s research laboratory, who has been awarded the Ada Louise Ballard & Seashore Dissertation Fellowship by the Graduate College for the Spring 2027 semester.

Featuring: Lian Alt; Andrew Bellizzi, MD; Brooks Jackson, MD, MBA; Ashutosh Mangalam, PhD; David Meyerholz, DVM, PhD; Shailesh Shahi, PhD; Ti-Ara Turner, BS

Congratulations to Narges Firouzshahi, MS, a doctoral student in Marco Hefti, MD’s research laboratory, who has been awarded the Ada Louise Ballard & Seashore Dissertation Fellowship by the Graduate College for the Spring 2027 semester.

Ashutosh Mangalam, PhD has been appointed to serve as the Society for Mucosal Immunology’s Chair of the Communications Committee for the 2026-27 term.

Featuring: James Goeken, MD; Brooks Jackson, MD, MBA; David Meyerholz, DVM, PhD; Steven Offer, PhD

Matthew Kraswoski, MD, PhD was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the College of American Pathologists 2026 annual meeting. The Lifetime Achievement award is awarded to pathologists who have made broad, positive impacts on the pathology profession through contributions to one or more areas of the organization over an extended period of time.

Two pathology research mentees Sandeep Singh Dhingra, MS and Cyrus Barati, BS received the Richard G. Lynch Award for Excellence in Pathology Research for the research they conducted in the Yang and Mangalam labs.