News Archive

CAP Inspection Travel Team Tackles Checklist

Friday, September 9, 2016
September 9, 2016 This year’s offsite College of American Pathologists (CAP) inspection team traveled to Hershey, PA to Penn State Medical Center and included Brad Ford, Bill Ganschow, Sabrina Bonde Hickok, Cory Morris, Jon Pruessner, John Blau, Megan Samuelson and Angela Wu...

Dr. Chris Jensen wins the Frank A. Mitros Award

Wednesday, August 24, 2016
August 24, 2016 Chris Jensen, Clinical Professor of Pathology, received the “Frank A. Mitros Excellence in Teaching and Clinical Service Award” in early August...

UI CCOM Faculty Focus: Dr. Sushmita Sinha

Friday, August 19, 2016
Dr. Sushmita Sinha is featured this month on The College of Medicine Faculty Focus...

Dr. Fred Dee Receives a Grant Award from the Edward J. Stemmler, MD Medical Education Research Fund of the National Board of Medical Examiners

Wednesday, August 17, 2016
August 17, 2016 Dr. Fred Dee has received a two-year research grant from the Edward J. Stemmler MD Medical Education Research Fund (National Board of Medical Examiners) entitled “Validation of a Case Diagramming Tool to Assess Higher-Order Thinking Skills”...

Dr. Weizhou Zhang Receives a Research Grant Award from the National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute

Friday, August 5, 2016
August 5, 2016 Dr. Weizhou Zhang received a five-year NIH/NCI R01 research grant, entitled “CD177 suppresses breast-cancer development by inhibiting beta-catenin”...

Dr. Siegfried Janz Receives a Research Grant Award from the National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute

Monday, August 1, 2016
August 1, 2016 Dr. Siegfried “Siggy” Janz received a two-year NIH/NCI R21 research grant, entitled “Validation of FOXM1 as a new therapeutic target in high-risk myeloma.”...

Faculty Promotions

Thursday, July 28, 2016
July 28, 2016 Congratulations Deqin Ma, MD, PhD, who has been promoted to Clinical Associate Professor of Pathology and to Matthew Krasowski, MD, PhD, and Annette Schlueter, MD, PhD, who have been promoted to Clinical Professor of Pathology, effective July 1, 2016.

Resident and Fellow Farewell Dinner Award Presentations

Wednesday, July 6, 2016
July 6, 2016 The 9th annual Department of Pathology Resident and Fellow Farewell Dinner was held Friday, June 17, 2016...

Dr. Kevin L. Legge Receives National Institutes of Health (NIH) Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant Award (R21)

Friday, June 3, 2016
June 3, 2016 Dr. Kevin L. Legge received a two-year NIH R21 grant entitled, 'Chronic Alcohol Alteration of Influenza-Specific CD8 T Cell Immunity and Protection'...

2016 MAGS Distinguished Thesis Award in the Biological and Life Sciences

Thursday, May 26, 2016
May 26, 2016 Nicholas Borcherding BS, MS, recently received the University of Iowa L.B. Sims Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award in the Biological Sciences for his thesis entitled “Non-canonical WNT Signaling in Breast Cancer Initiation and Progression”...