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

Congratulations to Graham Brady, doctoral candidate in the Molecular & Cellular Pathology PhD Program and the Medical Scientist Training Program, on the successful defense of his PhD thesis, "Regulation of Copper Homeostasis by the X-linked Inhibitor of Apoptosis Protein", on June 24, 2009. Graham completed his thesis research in the laboratory of Colin Duckett, PhD, Associate Professor of Pathology.

Congratulations to Kary Oetjen, doctoral candidate in the Molecular & Cellular Pathology PhD Program and the Medical Scientist Training Program, on the successful defense of her PhD thesis, "Contributions to inflammation and sepsis by Inhibitor of Apoptosis proteins", on April 23, 2009. Kary completed her thesis research in the laboratories of Colin Duckett, PhD, Associate Professor of Pathology and Nicholas Lukacs, PhD., Professor of Pathology.

Congratulations are to be extended to Dr. Andrew Flint, the recipient of this year's Elizabeth Crosby Award. This award is given by the student members of the Galen's Medical Society to "a faculty member for outstanding teaching of medical students in a basic science area." It is one of the highest teaching awards students give to faculty recognizing the high quality of teaching and commitment to medical student education.

We are pleased to announce the following successful promotions (effective 9/1/09):

Nisha D'Silva, D.D.S. - to Associate Professor
Kojo Elenitoba-Johnson, M.D. - to Professor
Rengeng Guo, M.D. - to Adjunct Research Associate Professor
Laurie McCauley, D.D.S. - to Professor
Barbara McKenna, M.D. - to Clinical Professor
Claire Michael, M.D. - to Clinical Professor
Duane Newton, Ph.D. - to Clinical Associate Professor
Rong Wu, M.D. - to Research Assistant Professor

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.

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Chisa Yamada, Clinical Assistant Professor of Pathology at the University of California Irvine, will join our faculty in Transfusion Medicine effective July 1, 2009. Prior to her relocation to the University of California Dr. Yamada trained in AP/CP at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and completed a Transfusion Medicine Fellowship at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Dr. Jeffrey Jentzen, Director of Autopsy and Forensic Services, is profiled in the current issue of Medicine at Michigan.

Pathology Department in Top Ten According to recently released NIH data, the Department of Pathology has moved from 15th to 8th in NIH funding amongst Pathology Departments, with $15,302,613 in NIH awards in 2008.  This represents a 25% increase in grants in force and a 28.5% increase in grant dollars compared with 2007. The University of Michigan Medical School is currently ranked 7th overall among medical schools with over $300,000,000 in funding.  Congratulations to all of the faculty who made this achievement possible.

We are pleased to announce that all positions were filled through the MSRP match with outstanding students. Our residents beginning in July 2009 will be:

Randall Butler, Ohio State University
Amanda Fisher, Northwestern University
Alero Fregene, University of Michigan Medical School
Nora Frisch, University of Kentucky college of Medicine
Maria Pletneva, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Ann Poznanski, University of Michigan Medical School
Scott Tomlins, University of Michigan Medical School
Laura Walters, University of Wisconsin

Congratulations to Rohit Mehra, M.D., House Officer, who has been selected as the winner of the AACR GlaxoSmithKline Outstanding Clinical Scholar Award. These prestigious awards support participation in Annual Meeting and future AACR Special Conferences for a period of two years (through the 2011 AACR Annual Meeting). GlaxoSmithKline supports promising young cancer researchers who are the authors of outstanding proffered papers related to clinical research.

Congratulations to Laura Cooling, M.D., Associate Professor who has been named the 2009 recipient of the Therepeutic Apheresis Best Abstract Award by the American Society for Apheresis, for her abstract, "Mobilization of G-CSF Only is Associated with Increased Infusion Toxicity".

We are delighted to announce that Dr. Raja Rabah, Associate Professor of Pathology at Wayne State University and Director of Pediatric Pathology at Michigan Children's Hospital, will join our faculty as Director of Pediatric Pathology effective July 20, 2009.

Andrew P. Lieberman, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor has been selected for membership in the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI).

Jerome Cheng, M.D., Informatics Fellow, has been selected to receive the 2009 APIII Junior Investigator Award for his work with self-configuring natural language processing. Dr. Cheng will give a plenary lecture at the APIII 2009 Fall Conference.

The 2009 Summer Academy of the American Society for Investigative Pathology will include a lecture by Celina G. Kleer, M.D., Associate Professor and Harold A. Oberman Collegiate Professor of Pathology. Dr. Kleer is scheduled to speak on "Molecular Pathobiology of Breast Cancer".

Duane Newton, Ph.D., Assistant Professor and Director of the Microbiology/Virology Laboratory has been appointed to the editorial board of the Journal of Clinical Virology. This international journal publishes papers on any aspect of human virology that directly pertains to virus-induced clinical conditions and is the official journal of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology and the European Society for Clinical Virology.

Congratulations to Stephanie Jo, PhD Candidate in Molecular and Cellular Pathology (Laboratory of Jay L. Hess, M.D., Ph.D.). Stephanie was awarded a NIH Pre-Doctoral Fellowship by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Stephanie's thesis research focus within the Hess Lab is to identify mechanisms of transformation by MLL fusion proteins to identify potential molecular targets for therapy.

Congratulations to Sudha Natarajan, doctoral candidate in the Molecular & Cellular Pathology PhD Program on the successful defense of her PhD thesis, "The Role of Pulmonary Innate Immune Modulation in the Pathogenesis of Allergic Asthma, on Jan 12, 2009. Sudha completed her thesis research in the laboratory of Daniel Remick, MD, formerly Professor of Pathology at the University of Michigan, now Chairman and Professor of Pathology at Boston University.

We are pleased to announce that the UMHHC Senior Management Team has recognized the Michigan Pathology Quality System, which is led by Dr. Jeffrey Myers, as the Clinical Program of the Year on the basis of its leadership in promoting quality, safety, lean principle application, engagement and effective communication.


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