Award Recipients

The ASIP Awards Program was founded in 1919 when ASIP (then the American Association of Pathologists and Bacteriologists) awarded the very first Gold-Headed Cane Award to Harold C. Ernst in recognition of long-term contributions to pathology, including meritorious research, outstanding teaching, general excellence in the field, and leadership in pathology. Since then the program has grown and currently offers  Meritorious Awards ,  Junior Faculty Travel Awards  and  Trainee Awards  to recognize outstanding achievements in every membership category. Trainee Travel Awards (for undergraduate students, pre-and post-doctoral trainees) and George K. Michalopoulos Junior Faculty Travel Awards are selected competitively based on abstract submissions to the PISA Meeting in Ann Arbor, October 20-22, 2018

George K. Michalopoulos Junior Faculty Travel Awards

Jacqueline Jones, PhD, MBA Troy University “FOXI3: It’s A “Bone” Attraction to Promoting Cancer Progression” ABSTRACT CAN12

Miguel Quiros, PhD University of Michigan School of Medicine “Synergist ic Effects of Platelet Activating Factor and TNF-α in Promoting Intestinal Epithelial Migration an d Mucosal Wound Repair” ABSTRACT EMP4

ASIP Experimental Pathologist-In-Graduate Training (EPIGT) Awards

Prarthana Dalal, BA Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine “Calmodulin and CaMKII Play a Role in Leukocyte Transmigration” ABSTRACT INIM2

Shyanne Page-Hefley, BS Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center “Wnt of Change: Determining the Effect of the Wnt/β-catenin Pathway on the BBB During Ischemic/Re-oxygenation Stress” ABSTRACT CIRSP1

AD Sobel Scholar Trainee Travel Awards

Paul Bernard, BS Houston Methodist Research Institute “RocA is an Important Regulator with Serotype-specific Pathogenesis Functions in Serotype M28 Group A Streptococcus”            ABSTRACT ID1

Triet Bui, BS Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine      “Neutrophils Promote Non-Homologous End-Joining (NHEJ)-mediated Survival of Tumor Cells in Inflammation-driven Tumorigenesis” ABSTRACT CAN2

Alexander Dowdell, PhD University of Colorado Anschutz “HIF-dependent Regulation of Salmonella-induced Autophagy in Intestinal Epithelia” ABSTRACT EMP9

Michelle Le Blanc, PhD  Schepens Eye Research Institute “Endomucin Regulates VEGF Receptor 2 (VEGFR2) Endocytosis”  ABSTRACT CIRSP5

Benoit Niclou, MS Boston Children's Hospital “Semaphorin3F as a Novel Targeted Therapy Against PDAC”  ABSTRACT CAN10

Bejan Saeedi, BS Emory University School of Medicine “Regulation of Oxidative Liver Injury by the Probiotic Lactobacillus Rhamnosus GG” ABSTRACT GMD1

ASIP Trainee Travel Awards

Andi Cani, MA University of Michigan “Development of a Whole Urine, Next Generation Sequencing-Based Assay for Early Detection of Aggressive Prostate Cancer”              ABSTRACT CAN16

Vicky Garcia-Hernadez, PhD University of Michigan   “Stem Cell Factor Inhibition Enhances Recovery from Colitis” ABSTRACT EMP5

Matthias Kelm, MD University of Michigan “Targeting Epithelial Expressed Sialyl Lewis A Increases Intestinal Barrier Integrity, Improves Mucosal Wound Healing and Protects Against Colitis”   ABSTRACT EMP1

The Larry and Marion Muller Memorial Fund for Excellence in Inflammation Award Heather Grifka-Walk, PhD Montana State University “Discovery of a Protective and Transmissible Microbiome that Alters Intestinal and Systemic Inflammatory Responses”        ABSTRACT GMD4

GALL Trainee Travel Award for Excellence in Cardiovascular Research Award Francisco Carrillo-Salinas, PhD Tufts University “Gut Bacteria Dysbiosis Drives Cardiac Dysfunction in Response to Pressure Overload Induced Heart Failure”                      ABSTRACT GMD8

ASIP Promoting Diversity In Science Travel Award

Kelvin Jones, MS, BS Tuskegee University       “Identification of Novel Peptides Against Breast Cancer Cells Undergoing EMT Utilizing Phage Display” ABSTRACT BC7

Roberto Mota, MD University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill “Development of the First Animal Model of Dyslipidemia, Atherosclerosis, and Diabetes in Mutant apoE Deficient/ZDF Rats” ABSTRACT ACD1

Melanie Rivera, BS University of New Mexico “Rac1 as a Driver in Ovarian Cancer Metastasis” ABSTRACT CAN5

ASIP International Trainee Travel Award

Michael Nweke, MBBS University College Hospital Ibadan, Nigeria “A Pilot study of the poss ible role of EGFR Immunohistochemistry and EGFR Fluorescence in situ Hybridization diagnostics in a subset of Astrocytomas at a Tertiary African Hospital” ABSTRACT NEURO1

Summer Research Opportunity Program In Pathology (SROPP) Travel Awards

Dana Julian University of Pittsburgh “Macrophage Specific Phenotypes Induced Fibroblast to Myofibroblast Phenoconversion through TGFβ/TGFβR-Independent CXC-type Chemokine Mediated Signaling”  ABSTRACT CIRSP3 Ellah Nzikoba Boston Children's Hospital “Comparing Renal Toxicity in Preclinical Cancer Therapies Targeting Neuropilin 1 or Neuropilin 2” ABSTRACT PLK1

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