Shravan Kumar Kannan receives Ballard & Seashore Dissertation Fellowship for Spring 2026 Semester. Kannan is an Immunology PhD candidate in the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Immunology and member of Vladimir Badovinac, PhD's research laboratory.

Featuring: Andrew Bellizzi, MD; Mohamed Eletrebi, MBBCh; Kimberly Fiock, PhD; Matthew Gosse, MD; Marco Hefti, MD

Kshitija Kale, MD. receives Ballard & Seashore Fellowship Award for Spring 2026 Semester. Dr. Kale is a student in our Experimental Pathology PhD program and a member of Nitin Karandikar, MD, PhD's research laboratory.

Featuring: Marco Hefti, MD; Kimberly Fiock, PhD; David Meyerholz, DVM, PhD

After 22 years in the Department of Pathology, Dr. Marcus Nashelsky has retired.

Featuring: David Meyerholz, DVM, PhD; Douglas Spitz, PhD

Nitin Karandikar, MD, PhD’s research laboratory focuses on the immune processes that underlie the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis, which is an immune-mediated demyelinating disease of the central nervous system (CNS). His research group was the first to show the unexpected finding that CD8+ T cells targeted toward CNS antigens can suppress disease activity and could potentially be used as a therapeutic approach.

Featuring: Anthony Avellino, BS, MS; Dustin Bosch, MD, PhD; Xiaochun Han; Jiaqing Hao, PhD; Xingshan Jiang, PhD; Zizhen Kang, PhD; Bing Li, PhD; Shanshan Liu, PhD; Anna Merrill, PhD, DABCC; Tanner Simonson, MD; Jonathan Shilyansky; Yuhang Wang, PhD; Zhaohua Wang, PhD; Jianyu Yu, MS

In a recent case report published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, a 41-year-old male was referred to the University of Iowa with bronchiectasis, chronic sinusitis, and peculiar airway calcifications.

Vladimir Badovinac, PhD and his research laboratory were recently featured in the American Association of Immunologists for their article, 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.