News Archive

Dr. Shailesh Shahi wins an American Association of Immunologists Travel Award

Monday, April 3, 2017
April 3, 2017 Dr. Shailesh Shahi has been awarded an American Association of Immunologists (AAI) Trainee Travel Award to present his research findings at the 2017 annual AAI meeting in Washington D.C...

Dr. Weizhou Zhang receives an Oberley Seed Grant Award from the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center

Monday, April 3, 2017
April 3, 2017 Dr. Zhang was awarded an Oberley Seed Grant Award from the Experimental Therapeutics ET Program within Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center...

Match Day 2017 Results

Monday, April 3, 2017
April 3, 2017 At Match Day 2017 (March 17), the Department of Pathology learned the names of the residents who will be joining us in June. We are excited to announce the following future additions to our program...

Zeb Zacharias is awarded a Levitt Center Travel Award

Monday, April 3, 2017
April 3, 2017 Zeb Zacharias, an Immunology Ph.D. student, has been awarded a $2000 Levitt Center Travel Award to present results from his thesis project at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Immunologists in Washington D.C...

Drs. Janz and Tanas Receive Cancer Center Pilot Grants for Studies Using the High Throughput Screening Facility

Wednesday, March 8, 2017
March 8, 2017 Dr. Siggy Janz and Dr. Munir Tanas, and their respective research teams, received 1-year pilot awards from the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center for studies utilizing the High Throughput Screening (HTS) Facility...

Dr. Weizhou Zhang Receives Four Institutional and Philanthropic Grants to Support Cancer Research

Tuesday, March 7, 2017
March 7, 2017 Kimberly A. Stack Basler Breast Cancer Research Fund...

Pathology Faculty Members Receive Carver Trust Medical Research Initiative Grants

Monday, February 13, 2017
February 13, 2017 Drs. Bradley Ford, Siegfried Janz, Kevin Legge and Ashutosh Mangalam were each awarded $30,000 Medical Research Initiative Grants from the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust...

Nick Borcherding received a four-year NIH/NCI F30 NRSA fellowship, entitled “The Role of Paracrine WNT5A/RYK in ErbB2-driven Tumorigenesis.”

Tuesday, January 17, 2017
January 17, 2017 The preliminary findings were published in a Cancer Research article in 2015 and led to the hypothesis that the WNT5A/RYK signaling module spatiotemporally regulates breast tumor outgrowth...

Dr. Siegfried “Siggy” Janz received a five-year NIH R01 research grant entitled “Biological Validation of Candidate Myeloma Driver Genes"

Thursday, January 12, 2017
January 12, 2017 The envisioned studies constitute a highly collaborative, inter-departmental research effort that will involve valued colleagues from Pathology (Drs. Carol Holman, Xuefang Jing and Ramakrishna Sompallae), Internal Medicine (Fenghuang “Frank” Zhan and Guido Tricot), Radiology (Drs. John Sunderland and Susan Walsh) and the College of Pharmacy (Dr. Meng Wu)...

Drs. Matthew Krasowski and Amelia Fierro-Fine, Study Ethanol Levels at Iowa Football Games

Thursday, January 12, 2017
January 12, 2017 The rate of severe alcohol intoxication at University of Iowa football games has decreased since 2009...