Mohammad Heidarian, MSc receives the Ballard & Seashore Fellowship Award for Fall 2026 Semester. Heidarian is a student in our Experimental Pathology PhD program and a member of Vladimir Badovinac, PhD's research laboratory.

Shailesh K. Shahi, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology, has received the Early Career Faculty Travel Grant Award from the American Association of Immunologists (AAI) to attend the annual IMMUNOLOGY2026 meeting, which will be held April 15–19, 2026, in Boston, Massachusetts.

A collaborative case report from Matthew Krasowski, MD, PhD and Brad Ford, MD, PhD along with physicians from the Department of Internal Medicine Quanhathai Kaewpoowat, MD; Jack Stapleton, MD; and Laura Stulken, PA-C, MPH was one of the top-read articles in the American Society for Microbiology in 2025.

Drs. Vladimir Badovinac and John Harty have been awarded a new five-year R01 research grant from the NIH/NIAID entitled “Impact of Whole-Body Radiation Exposure on Pathogen-Specific Memory CD8 T Cells.” The award totals $3,247,420. The project began on February 10, 2026, and will conclude on January 31, 2031.

David Buhr, a 1973 alum of the University of Iowa Medical Laboratory Science program, helped relaunch the MLS program with guidance and scholarships alongside his wife Pam for UI students pursuing a similar career path. Buhr credits his medical laboratory science education from the University of Iowa for playing a pivotal role in his career.

Research on how prior malaria infection compromises subsequent vaccine responses and development of strategies to overcome this dysfunction by Mariah Hassert, PhD; Lisa Drewry, PhD, Lecia Epping, BS; Lisa Hancox, BA; and Sahaana Arumugam, BA, BS from the Harty lab was recently published in Nature Microbiology.

Two recent studies from Ashutosh Mangalam, PhD’s laboratory now provide converging evidence that oral microbial imbalance is closely linked to immune activation and metabolic disruption in people with relapsing-remitting MS (RRMS), highlighting oral health as an underappreciated contributor to MS pathobiology.

Pathology welcomes new faculty Drs. Nicole Becker, Matthew Carda, and Johanna Savage

Kang Lab unravels novel therapeutic strategies for NLRC4-associated autoinflammation and infantile enterocolitis, a rare but often fatal monogenic disorder characterized by severe neonatal colitis, systemic hyperinflammation, and macrophage activation syndrome (MAS).

The Carver College of Medicine’s brain bank, called the Iowa Neuropathology Resource Laboratory (INRL), is part of the National Institutes of Health's NeuroBioBank network.

Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) is among the most prevalent mental health conditions in the United States, affecting over 10% of adults. Characterized by compulsive drinking, loss of control over alcohol intake, and negative emotional states during withdrawal, AUD exerts profound structural and functional effects on the brain—impairing cognition, emotion, and behavior.

Melissa Blessing, Clinical Assistant Professor of Pathology, was featured in The Gazette article, "Doctor lands 'dream job' in Johnson County Medical Examiner's Office" this past December about her new position at the Johnson County Medical Examiner's Office.