We are pleased to announce that J. Stacey Klutts, MD, PhD, Clinical Associate Professor of Pathology, has been appointed as the Department of Veteran’s Affairs Associate National Director of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine.

Dr. Alexander Boyden has been awarded a 2022 American Association of Immunologists (AAI) Early Career Faculty Travel Grant and podium talk for his research entitled “B cell-mediated antigen presentation is required to induce functional pathogenicity of CD4 T cells in a proteolipid protein mouse model of multiple sclerosis” at the American Association of Immunologists annual meeting in Portland, OR on May 6-10, 2022.

Dr. Nitin Karandikar received another 4-year VA Merit Award, entitled “Effector-Regulator Immune Interactions During Autoimmune Demyelinating Disease.”

Dr. Leslie Bruch has retired from the University of Iowa Department of Pathology after more than 15 years as a member of the neuropathology faculty.

Dr. Vladimir Badovinac has been selected as a Distinguished Scholar by University of Iowa Health Care.

Dr. John Harty received a five-year NIH R01 award entitled ‘Immunity to Liver-Stage Malaria’ from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).

In this article we demonstrate that Elamipretide, a mitochondrial-targeted peptide, is safe and efficient in maternal and neonatal mice with PKD1 mutations.

Steven Moioffer successfully defended his M.S. thesis this past December and completed the Pathology M.S. program.

Leslie Bruch, MD, received the Frank A. Mitros Excellence in Teaching and Clinical Service Award.

Kimberly Fiock, BS, MS, was recently awarded the L.B. Sims Outstanding Master's Thesis Award in the Biological Science.