Administrative supplements are available from the NIH to support additional resources under existing funded proposals. The summer support program would be an excellent opportunity to support additional lab help personnel. Some institutes have very specific requirements of the application and allowable costs. Similarly, the administrative supplements vary by institute and range from specific programs to purchase equipment under $100,000 to funds available for postdoc salaries and supplies. we have added to the UMHS ARRA website the list of institute deadlines and direct links to the administrative supplement information. Please refer to:
http://www.med.umich.edu/u/recovery/research/arra-websites.html

Dr. Yali Dou, Assistant Professor of Pathology, is senior author of “Two Mammalian MOF Complexes Regulate Transcription Activation by Distinct Mechanisms” published in the October 23 issue of Molecular Cell (Mol Cell 36:290-301, 2009). Coauthors include Dr. Xiangzhi Li, Dr. Lipeng Wu, Callie Ann Sprunger Corsa, and Dr. Steven Kunkel, Professor of Pathology and Senior Associate Dean for Research.

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Jason Cheng has accepted our offer to join the hematopathology faculty as an Assistant Professor effective April 1, 2010. Dr. Cheng completed his residency and fellowship in hematopathology at the University of Chicago Medical Center. One of Dr. Cheng's goals will be to establish a laboratory for epigenetic profiling of tumors, particularly MDS and AML.

Peter A. Ward, M.D., Godfrey D. Stobbe Professor has received the Marie T. Bonazinga Award for Excellence in Leukocyte Biology Research from the Society of Leukocyte Biology. The presentation of this award will occur during the International meetings of the Society for Leukocyte Biology, International Cytokine Society, and International Society for Interferon and Cytokine Research in Lisbon, Portugal, 18-21 October 2009.

Limin Yu, M.D., Chief Resident received the "Physician-inTraining Award" for the best resident/fellow abstract presentation for "Placental nevomelanocytosis and melanoma transplacental metastasis at the 46th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Dermatopathology. Dr. Yu was mentored by Drs. Richard Lieberman and Douglas Fullen.

The bi-annual Society for Hematopathology meeting was held in Cleveland, Ohio (September 24-26, 2009), with Dr. Sara Farmen, House Officer IV, presenting a platform case, "A case of CD5 positive lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma (LPL)".

Dr. Peter Lucas, Assistant Professor of Pathology, will join Dr. Joseph Fantone, Godfrey D. Stobbe Professor of Pathology Education, in the Education Office as Assistant Director of the Residency Program effective August 1, 2009. In this role Dr. Lucas will focus on the recruitment and mentoring of residents who are pursuing physician-scientist careers.

Congratulations are to be extended to Hedwig S. Murphy, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor for receiving the 2009 Department of Urology Outstanding Achievement Award. Dr. Murphy also received 1st prize in Pathology at the 2008 British Medical Association Book Competition for: "Inflammation" Pathology: Clinicopathologic Foundations of Medicine, (R. Rubin and D. Strayer, ed., Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2007).

David O. Ferguson, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, senior author of a study involving MRN complex is featured in the July 30, 2009, Science Daily online, "Protein Complex Key In Avoiding DNA Repair Mistakes, Cancer". This study is also available in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology.

Alexey Nesvizhskii, Ph.D., Assistant Professor has accepted the role of Senior Editor in the Bioinformatics/Biostatistics area for PROTEOMICS and its sister journal
PROTEOMICS Clinical Applications. These are the two leading journals in the field, published by Wiley-VCH.

The Medicine at Michigan website includes an article: http://www.medicineatmichigan.org/magazine/2009/summer/mind/mic.asp, regarding the development of specimen boxes for blood ensuring rapid pick up and delivery to the Specimen Processing Laboratory. This improvement was developed by Dr. Steven Mandell and a group of 25 individuals including nurses, managers, pathologists, phlebotomists and housekeeping with funding from a Health System Foster Innovation Grant.

Dr. Richard Miller, is one of three senior authors in a paper “Rapamycin fed late in life extends lifespan in genetically heterogeneous mice” published online this week in Nature (http://www.nature.com/). The findings have important implications for the future development of therapeutics for aging-related diseases.

We are pleased to announce that Lynn McCain, Administrative Assistant to Dr. Hess, has been recognized by the University of Michigan Association of Administrative Office Professionals (AAOP) with the 2009 Award of Excellence

Dr. Soory Varambally, Research Assistant Professor has been selected to receive the the prestigious Research Faculty Recognition Award for exceptional scholarly achievement. Dr. Varambally's is a member of the Michigan Center for Translational Pathology led by Dr. Arul Chinnaiyan. His research efforts are focused on molecular mechanisms of transformation in prostate cancer.

Peter A. Ward, M.D., Godfrey D. Stobbe Professor's Bench-to-Bedside article, "The Sepsis Seesaw: Seeking a Heart Salve" is featured in the current issue of Nature Medicine.

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