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May 2024

 

Honors & Awards

Toni Antalis, PhD, Professor, Department of Pharmacology & Physiology and Center for Vascular and Inflammatory Diseases, has been named a fellow of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. She was recognized at the ASBMB annual meeting in March 2024 for her exemplary service to the ASBMB, her outstanding accomplishments in scientific research, mentorship of the next generation of diverse scientists, and service to the national scientific community.

Meagan Fitzpatrick, PhD, Associate Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, received a one-year, $26,000 award from the Centers for Disease Control to perform mathematical modeling, which will generate data critical to developing national vaccine recommendations and policies to control pertussis in the United States.

Bri Klucher, MD, Emergency Medicine Resident and rising Chief Resident and Faculty Development Fellow, concluded her term as Resident Member-at-Large on the CORD Board of Directors.

Anshu Kumari, PhD, Department of Pharmacology & Physiology, received a Spring 2024 Professional Development Award from the University of Maryland School of Medicine.

Taylor Lindquist, DO, Resident, Department of Emergency Medicine/Pediatrics, was named Best Resident Presenter at the Clinical Pathologic Case Competition (CPC) national semifinals at the Council of Residency Directors in Emergency Medicine (CORD) meeting in New Orleans, LA, on March 28, 2024, and will compete in the National Finals at the 2024 ACEP meeting. Rachel Wiltjer, DO, Instructor (runner-up), Robert Iannaccone, MD, Resident (runner-up), and Gabriella Miller, MD, Chief Resident and Faculty Development Fellow, also competed. Kathleen Stephanos, MD, Assistant Clerkship Director, served as a CPC judge in other divisions of the competition.

Mary Kay Lobo, PhD, Professor, Department of Neurobiology, was named Vice Chair for Trainee and Faculty Development in the Department of Neurobiology.

Kathleen Neuzil, MD, MPH, FIDSA, Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, has been named the 13th Director of the Fogarty International Center and Associate Director for International Research at the National Institutes of Health.

Celine Plachez, PhD, Research Technician, obtained data that Shuxin Zhao, Research Specialist, captured as a microscopic image. The IBRO journal Neuroscience selected this image to feature on its cover. Both work in Dr. Reha Erzurumlu’s laboratory in the Department of Neurobiology. 

Adam Puche, PhD, Professor, Department of Neurobiology, has been elected to receive the Student Council Award for Best Pre-Clinical Faculty at this year’s 2024 School of Medicine MD Graduation Ceremony.

Osamah Saeedi, MD, MS, Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, has been awarded the UMB MS Alumni Award, which recognizes an accomplished graduate who has reached significant professional achievements through exemplary leadership. Achievements may be specific to a chosen career, industry or entrepreneurial accomplishments. Consideration is also given to the nominee’s contributions to their community and to UMB. This award is a testament to their outstanding talents and the positive impact they have had on UMB and their field.

 

 

New Faculty



Miguel Luján Pérez, PhD, has been appointed to the position of Research Associate in the Department of Neurobiology.

 

 

In the News

Wilbur Chen, MD, MS, FIDSA, Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, was interviewed by National Public Radio about a human case of H5N1 Bird Flu on April 2, 2024.

 

 

Vasken Dilsizian, MD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was interviewed on “Sleep Apnea and Cardiac Health” by Steve Chenevey, FOX-5 DC (WTTG-TV), in Washington, DC, on March 27, 2024.

 

 

 

Grants & Contracts

Robert Bloch, PhD, Professor, Department of Pharmacology & Physiology, received a 5-year, $2,720,438 ROI grant from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases entitled “C2 Domain Therapeutics for Muscular Dystrophy.”

Adam Fang, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, received $185,679 from Instylla, Inc., for a two-year clinical trial of “The HALT Study - A Prospective Multicenter Single-Arm Staged Study to Evaluate the Safety and Effectiveness of Embrace Hydrogel Embolic for Transcatheter Embolization of Arterial Bleeding in Solid Organs and Peripheral Arteries.”

Anshu Kumari, PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar in Dr. Vivek Garg’s Lab, Department of Pharmacology & Physiology, received a two-year, $156,000 postdoctoral fellowship from the American Heart Association (AHA) to elucidate the role of cardiolipins in the modulation of mitochondrial calcium uniporter. This project was further selected by the Barth Syndrome Foundation for the collaborative support and recognition from both organizations.

Yajie (Kevin) Liang, MB, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, received a one-year, $88,295 subcontract from SeeTrue Technology, LLC for a National Institute of Mental Health study on “3-D Microprinting-Enabled Microinjection Needle Arrays for Enhanced Therapeutics Delivery into the Brain.”

Rebecca Lorsung, MD/PhD Student, Department of Neurobiology, was awarded an F31 from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) to study how sex differences in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis guide differential pain susceptibility.

Timothy Miller, MD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, received $140,692 from MicroVention, Inc. for a five-year clinical trial to study “Post-Approval Study-Post Market Surveillance Study to Evaluate the Long-Term Safety and Effectiveness of the WEB Device.”

Piotr Walczak, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, received a four-year, $1,259,544 grant from the VA to study “Image-guided Intra-arterial Delivery of Stem Cells to Repair Brain Damage after TBI.”

Paul Yi, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, received a three-year, $263,094 subcontract from Johns Hopkins University for a National Cancer Institute study on “SCH: Quantifying and Mitigating Demographic Biases of Machine Learning in Real World Radiology.

 

 

Presentations, Events, Lectures & Workshops

Robert Bloch, PhD, Professor, Department of Pharmacology & Physiology, was an invited speaker at Wright State University, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, held in Dayton, OH, on March 27-28, 2024. He was also an invited speaker to the annual meeting of the Jain Foundation, held in Houston, TX, on May 7-9, 2024.

Vasken Dilsizian, MD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was recently the Cardiology Grand Rounds speaker at Boston Medical Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, where he presented "Cardiovascular Applications of FDG PET Imaging" on April 10, 2024.

Jie Ding, PhD, Medical Physics Resident; Chaitanya Kalavagunta, PhD, Assistant Professor; Giovanni Lasio, PhD, Associate Professor; and Arun Gopal, PhD, Associate Professor, all with the Department of Radiation Oncology, presented “Enhanced Cardiac Dose Sparing Using Robust Optimization in Deep Inspiration Breath Hold Breast Radiotherapy,” on March 24 at the American Association of Physicists in Medicine 2024 Spring Clinical Meeting in St. Louis, MO.

Carol Greene, MD, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, was invited to give Grand Rounds for the Department of Pediatrics at University of Texas Health, Austin, TX, on March 29, 2024. The title was “Genetic Disorders in Your Practice – And How to (try to) Avoid Missing Them.”

Miriam Laufer, MD, MPH, FIDSA, Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, was a panelist at the World Vaccine Congress in Washington, DC, where she presented “Progress Towards Eliminating Malaria” on April 3, 2024.

Matthew Laurens, MD, MPH, Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, presented “Malaria Vaccine Development, a Career Path in Peds ID” to the St. Jude/Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society (PIDS) Pediatric Infectious Diseases Research Conference, held in Memphis, TN, on March 8, 2024. He also presented “An Update on Malaria Vaccines” in the Department of Pediatrics Grand Rounds, University of Maryland School of Medicine, on March 28, 2024.

Amal Mattu, MD, Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine, was a presenter of “Promotions in Academic Medicine – Path to Success” at the Council of Residency Directors in Emergency Medicine (CORD) meeting held in New Orleans, LA, on March 25, 2024. 

Regina Macatangay, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, co-presented two workshops at the Council on Medical Student Education in Pediatrics Annual Meeting, held in New Orleans, LA, in April 2024. The workshops were titled “Chutes and Ladders - Strategies Behind the Game of Promotion: A Guide to Promotion as a Medical Educator” and “Developing Skills to Write 'The Best Letter of Recommendation I Have Ever Read in My 20-Year Career.'”

Jason Molitoris, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, presented Proton Radiation Therapy Plus Immunotherapy on April 6 at the 2024 National Proton Conference in Boston, MA.

Kathleen Neuzil, MD, MPH, FIDSA, Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, was an invited virtual speaker and panelist at the World Vaccine Congress held in Washington, DC, where she presented on Mpox Vaccines for Global Populations on April 3, 2024.

Ryan Spangler, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, and Director of Undergraduate Medical EM Education, was a presenter of “How to Make Your Program’s Away Rotation Shine” at the Council of Residency Directors in Emergency Medicine (CORD) meeting held in New Orleans, LA, on March 25.

Shannon Takala-Harrison, PhD, Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, presented “Increasing Basic Science content at the ASTMH Annual Meeting” at the Burroughs Wellcome Fund workshop on March 4-5, 2024, in Durham, NC. She also presented “Use of Identity-by-Descent-based Approaches for Inference of Malaria Parasite Population Demography: Practical Considerations” during the Infectious Disease & Microbiome Program Seminar Series at the Broad Institute on March 15, 2024, in Cambridge, MA.

Department of Emergency Medicine faculty lectured at the Rocky Mountain Winter Conference on Emergency Medicine, held February 24-28, 2024, in Steamboat Springs, CO, on the following topics:

  • Assistant Professor Mike Abraham, MD, on “Saving One Neuron at a Time: Neuro Updates”
  • Professor Michael Bond, MD, on “Back Pain that Kills — Deadly Causes that You Can't Afford to Miss”
  • Assistant Professor Cheyenne Falat, MD, on “From Cold & Dead to Warm & Alive: Resuscitating Hypothermia”
  • Associate Professor Dan Gingold, MD, MPH, on “Keeping Everyone Cool: Tips and Tricks for the Agitated Patient”
  • Instructor Bobbi-Jo Lowie, MD, on “Massive Hemoptysis: Tricks you MUST Know!”
  • Clinical Instructor Gabriella Miller, MD, on “Optimal Harm Reduction Techniques for Alcohol Use Disorder”
  • Associate Professor Mak Moayedi, MD, on “Float a Transvenous Pacer like a Pro”
  • Assistant Professor Lauren Rosenblatt, MD, on “Demystifying the Short of Breath Pregnant Patient”
  • Assistant Professor Alexis Salerno, MD, on “Anticipating the Difficult Airway with POCUS”
  • Assistant Professor Kat Stephanos, MD, on “The Unexpected Early Arrival!”
  • Assistant Professor Mark Sutherland, MD, on “Trial by Fire: Approach to the Crashing ED Patient”
  • Assistant Professor T. Andrew Windsor, MD, on “Yard Sale! Injuries You'll See on the Slopes Today,” and “Damage Control in The Non-Trauma Center!”

The Department of Emergency Medicine’s emergency cardiology symposium, “Cardiology Challenges,” was held on the UMB campus on April 3, 2024. Amal Mattu, MD, Professor and Vice Chair of Academic Affairs in the Department of Emergency Medicine, organized the conference, attended by about 50 emergency clinicians on campus and a global online audience of more than 2,700.

  • Assistant Professor Leen Alblaihed, MBBS, MPH, presented “Soundwaves of Survival: Echocardiography’s Role in Peri-Arrest Cases.”
  • Clinical Instructor and Cardiology Fellow Rohit Menon, MD, presented “Third Time’s NOT the Charm? Management of Electrical Storm”
  • Associate Professor Semhar Tewelde, MD, presented “Sick AF: Atrial Fibrillation in Critical Illness.”
  • Former Emergency Medicine residents and fellows Susy DeMeester, MD; Ali Farzad, MD; and Maite Huis in ‘t Veld, MD, also delivered presentations at the conference.

Members of the University of Maryland Department of Radiation Oncology were featured in multiple presentations and sessions at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) 2024 meeting held in San Diego, CA, from April 5-10, 2024. Several of these represented work in the laboratory of Phuoc Tran, MD, PhD, Professor. He chaired and provided the introduction to a session titled “Genomic Instability and Metastasis: Dangerous Liaisons or 2 Sides of the Same Coin?” Other presentations by members of Dr. Tran’s lab included:

  • “TNIK Induced Chemoradiation Resistance in Small Cell Lung Cancer”
  • “Investigating the roles of EMT in Small Cell Lung Cancer Tumorigenesis and Chemoradiation Response”
  • “Modeling Twist1 overexpression in a Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma Mouse Model”
  • “TWIST1-Induced Suppression of Oncogene-Induced Senescence in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Requires the Transactivation Domain of TWIST1”
  • “Investigating the Role of TNIK in the Pathogenesis of Lung Squamous Cell Carcinoma”

Also from the Department of Radiation Oncology, Lora Stojanovic, MS, Research Fellow; Rachel Abbotts, MBChB, PhD, Research Associate; and Feyruz Rassool, PhD, Professor, were among the presenters of “ZNFX1 is a Master Regulator and Tumor Suppressor in Epigenetically Induced Pathogen Mimicry, Mitochondrial Dysfunction and STING-Dependent Signaling in Cancer.”

 

 

Publications

Toni Antalis, PhD, Professor, Department of Pharmacology & Physiology and the Center for Vascular and Inflammatory Diseases, co-authored “Time-dependent Ultrastructural Changes during Venous Thrombogenesis and Thrombus Resolution,” which was published in the Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis on March 14, 2024.

Omer Awan, MD, MPH, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was the last author of “The Role of PACS Integration and Dictation-Based Educational Interfaces in Medical Student Radiology Rotations” and “The Importance of Failure in Medical Education,” both published in March 2024 in Academic Radiology.

Mordecai Blaustein, MD, Professor Emeritus, and John Hamlyn, PhD, Professor, both in the Department of Pharmacology & Physiology, authored a Landmark Review, “Sensational Site: The Sodium Pump Ouabain-binding Site and its Ligands,” which was published in the American Journal of Physiology – Cell Physiology on January 15, 2004.

Robert Bloch, PhD, Professor, Department of Pharmacology & Physiology, was among the co-authors of “Optimization of Methods for Generating Mature Xenografts of Human Skeletal Muscle in Mice in Cell Transplantation," first published online on April 11, 2024. He, along with Joaquin Muriel, PhD, Research Associate, and Valeriy Lukyanenko, PhD, Research Associate, all with the Department of Pharmacology & Physiology, was among the co-authors of “Nanodysferlins Support Membrane Repair and Bind to TRIM72/MG53 but Do Not Target T-Tubules or Stabilize Ca2+ Signaling in Dysferlin-null Muscle in Molecular Therapy.”

James Campbell, MD, MS, Professor; Miriam Laufer, MD, Professor; Kathleen Neuzil, MD, MPH, FIDSA, Professor; and Marcela Pasetti, PhD, Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, were among the co-authors of “Quantitative Analysis of Pertussis, Tetanus, and Diphtheria Antibodies in Sera and Breast Milk from Tdap Vaccinated Women Using a Qualified Multiplex Assay,” which was published in mSphere on March 18, 2024.

Rebecca Carter, MD, Associate Professor, and Jaylen Wadell, PhD, Assistant Professor, both with the Department of Pediatrics, were among the co-authors of “Effect of Vibratory Device on the Time of Administration of Vaccines and on Patient Satisfaction Measures,” which was published in the Journal of Child Health Care on March 31, 2024.

Alan Cross, MD, Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, was among the co-authors of “Vaccine Value Profile for Klebsiella Pneumoniae,” which was published in Vaccine on March 18, 2024.

Vasken Dilsizian, MD, Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, was the lead author of an Editorial entitled “Hybrid Imaging for Better Diagnosis and Treatment Strategies - Hope, Hype and Reality,” which was published in the April 2024 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Cardiovascular Imaging.

Florence Doo, MD, Assistant Professor, and Eliot Siegel, MD, Professor, both with the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, were the co-authors of “Conflicts of Interest in Radiology Publishing,” which was published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology in March 2024. Epub ahead of print.

Jason Falvey, PT, DPT, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, is a co-author of "Tackling Brain and Muscle Dysfunction in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Survivors: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Workshop Report," which was published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine on March 13, 2024.

Jason Falvey, PT, DPT, PhD, Assistant Professor; Na Sun, MS, Research Analyst; and Alisa Pravdo, PT, DPT, OCS, FAAOMPT, Assistant Professor, all with the Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, are co-authors of the publication titled "Demystifying the Digital Divide: Disparities in Telerehabilitation Readiness Among Older Adults in the United States," which was published in the journal Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation on March 27, 2024. 

Kyle Fischer, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor; J. David Gatz, MD, Assistant Professor; Daniel Gingold, MD, MPH, Associate Professor; and Stephen Schenkel, MD, MPP, Professor, all with the Department of Emergency Medicine, are among the authors of “Public Health Interventions in the Emergency Department: A Framework for Evaluation,” which was published online March 29, 2024, in the Western Journal of Emergency Medicine. The first author, Elisabeth Fassas, MD, MSc, is a 2023 graduate of the School of Medicine.

Meagan Fitzpatrick, PhD, Associate Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, was among the co-authors of “Evaluation of Strategies for Transitioning to Annual SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination Campaigns in the United States,” which was published in the Annals of Internal Medicine on March 26, 2024.

DeAnna Friedman-Klabanoff, MD, MS, Assistant Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, was co-author of “Malaria Prevention in Children: An Update,” which was published in Current Opinion in Pediatrics on April 1, 2024.

Karen Kotloff, MD, Distinguished Professor; Milagritos Tapia, MD, Professor; and Samba Sow, MD, MSc, Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, were among the co-authors of “Factors Predicting Mortality in Hospitalized HIV-negative Children with Lower-chest-wall Indrawing Pneumonia and Implications for Management,” which was published in PLoS One on March 11, 2024.

Karen Kotloff, MD, Distinguished Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, was among the co-authors of “The Enterics for Global Health (EFGH) Shigella Surveillance Study in The Gambia,” which was published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases on March 25, 2024. She was also among the co-authors of “Evaluation of Fecal Inflammatory Biomarkers to Identify Bacterial Diarrhea Episodes: Systematic Review and Protocol for the Enterics for Global Health Shigella Surveillance Study,” which was published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases on March 26, 2024.

  • Dr. Kotloff and Samba Sow, MD, MSc, Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, were also among the co-authors of “Data Management in Multi-Country Consortium Studies: The Enterics for Global Health (EFGH) Shigella Surveillance Study Example,” which was published the same day in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.
  • Dr. Kotloff and Sharon Tennant, PhD, Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, were among the co-authors of “Microbiological Methods Used in the Enterics for Global Health Shigella Surveillance Study” as well as “Shigella Detection and Molecular Serotyping With a Customized TaqMan Array Card in the Enterics for Global Health (EFGH): Shigella Surveillance Study,” which were both published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases on March 26, 2024.
  • Dr. Kotloff, along with Milagritos Tapia, MD, Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, was also among the co-authors of “Quantifying the Cost of Shigella Diarrhea in the Enterics for Global Health (EFGH) Shigella Surveillance Study,” which was published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases on March 26, 2024.

Shawn Kwatra, MD, the Joseph Burnett Distinguished Professor of Dermatology, was among the co-authors of “Integrated Plasma Metabolomic and Cytokine Analysis Reveals a Distinct Immunometabolic Signature in Atopic Dermatitis,” which was published in Frontiers in Immunology on March 15, 2024.

Matthew Laurens, MD, MPH, Professor; Emily Stucke, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow; Andrea Berry, MD, Associate Professor; Kirsten Lyke, MD, Professor; Shannon Takala-Harrison, PhD, Professor; and Mark Travassos, MD, MSc, Associate Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, were among the co-authors of “Gene Expression Analyses Reveal Differences in Children's Response to Malaria According to Their Age,” which was published in Nature Communications on March 6, 2024. Dr. Laurens was also among the co-authors of “Global, Regional, and National Burden of Disorders Affecting the Nervous System, 1990-2021: A Systematic Analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021,” which was published in Lancet Neurology on March 14, 2024.

Robert McCann, PhD, Assistant Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, was co-author of “Malaria Prevention in Children: An Update Assessing the Implementation Fidelity, Feasibility, and Sustainability of Community-based House Improvement for Malaria Control in Southern Malawi: A Mixed-methods Study,” which was published in BMC Public Health on April 2, 2024. Dr. McCann, along with Lauren Cohee, MD, Assistant Professor; Miriam Laufer, MD, MPH, FIDSA, Professor; and Shannon Takala-Harrison, PhD, Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, was also among the co-authors of “Genotyping Plasmodium falciparum Gametocytes Using Amplicon Deep Sequencing,” which appeared in Malaria Journal on April 6, 2024.

Timothy Miller, MD, Professor; Dheeraj Gandhi, MBBS, Professor; and Gaurav Jindal, MD, Professor, all with the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, were among the authors of “Optimal Angiographic Goal and Number of Passes for Octogenarians Undergoing Endovascular Stroke Thrombectomy,” which was published in March 2024 in World Neurosurgery. Epub ahead of print. Dr. Jindal was the last author.

Mark Mishra, MD, Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was among the authors of “Effects of Androgen-Deprivation Therapy on Prostate Cancer Outcomes According to Competing Event Risk: Secondary Analysis of a Phase 3 Randomized Trial” in the April issue of European Urology. He was also the senior author of “Systematic Review and Pooled Analysis of the Impact of Treatment-Induced Lymphopenia on Survival of Glioblastoma Patients,” which was published in Radiation Oncology on March 14, 2024.  

Dilruba Nasrin, MBBS, PhD, Associate Professor; Samba Sow, MD, MSc, Professor; Karen Kotloff, MD, Distinguished Professor; and Milagritos Tapia, MD, Professor, all with the Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, were among the co-authors of “The Enterics for Global Health (EFGH) Shigella Surveillance Study in Mali,” which was published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases on March 26, 2024. Dr. Nasrin, along with Drs. Kotloff and Tapia, was also among the co-authors of “Population Enumeration and Household Utilization Survey Methods in the Enterics for Global Health (EFGH): Shigella Surveillance Study,” which was published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases on March 26, 2024.

Kathleen Neuzil, MD, MPH, FIDSA, Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, was among the co-authors of “Quantifying How Single Dose Ad26.COV2.S Vaccine Efficacy Depends on Spike Sequence Features,” which was published in Nature Communications on March 11, 2024. She was also among the co-authors of “Typhoid Intestinal Perforation in Francophone Africa, A Scoping Review,” which was published in PLOS Global Public Health on March 29, 2024.

Yannick Poirier, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was among the authors of “Recommendations for Harmonized Reporting of Radiation Dosimetry by Adoption of Compatibility in Irradiation Research Protocols Expert Roundtable (CIRPER),” which was published on April 3, 2024, ahead of print in the International Journal of Radiation Biology.

Lei Ren, PhD, Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was among the authors of “Hybrid-Supervised Deep Learning for Domain Transfer 3D Protoacoustic Image Reconstruction,” published on April 3 ahead of print in Physics in Medicine and Biology.

Ethan Sandler, DO, Clinical Instructor, and Regina Macatangay, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, along with Helena Crowley, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, and Vijay Krishnan, MBBS, Assistant Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, were among co-authors of “Simultaneous Presentation of Wilms Tumor and Obstructing Duodenal-jejunal Hematoma: A Case Report,” which was published in April 2024 in the journal Pediatric Urology Case Reports.

Samantha Santomartino, Research Assistant; Elham Beheshtian, MD, PGY4; Vishwa Parekh, PhD, Assistant Professor; and Paul Yi, MD, Assistant Professor, all with the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, were among the authors of “Evaluating the Robustness of a Deep Learning Bone Age Algorithm to Clinical Image Variation Using Computational Stress Testing,” which was published in March 2024 in Radiology. Artificial Intelligence. Epub ahead of print. Ms. Santomartino was the first author and Dr. Yi was the last author.

Elana Smith, MD, Associate Professor; Charles Resnik, MD, Professor; and Rydhwana Hossain, MD, Associate Professor, all with the Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, were among the authors of “What Do Program and Geographic Preference Signals Signal? A Survey of Diagnostic Radiology and Integrated Interventional Radiology Residency Applicants,” which was published in March 2024 in Academic Radiology. Epub ahead of print. Dr. Hossain was the last author.

Shannon Takala-Harrison, PhD, Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, was among the co-authors of “Strong Positive Selection Biases Identity-by-Descent-based Inferences of Recent Demography and Population Structure in Plasmodium falciparum,” which was published in Nature Communications on March 20, 2024.

Milagritos Tapia, MD, Professor; Karen Kotloff, MD, Distinguished Professor; and Samba Sow, MD, MSc, Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, were among the co-authors of “Exploring Natural Immune Responses to Shigella Exposure Using Multiplex Bead Assays on Dried Blood Spots in High-Burden Countries: Protocol From a Multisite Diarrhea Surveillance Study,” which was published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases on March 26, 2024.

  • Drs. Tapia, Kotloff and Sow, along with Marcela Pasetti, PhD, Professor, were also among the co-authors of “Safety and Immunogenicity of a Single Dose of Tdap Compared to Td in Pregnant Women in Mali and 3 its Effect on Infant Immune Responses: A Single-Centre, Randomized, Double-Blind, Active-controlled Phase 2 Study,” which was published in eClinicalMedicine on March 28, 2024.

Sharon Tennant, PhD, Professor; Karen Kotloff, MD, Distinguished Professor; and Milagritos Tapia, MD, Professor, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, were among the co-authors of “Diarrhea Case Surveillance in the Enterics for Global Health Shigella Surveillance Study: Epidemiologic Methods,” which was published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases on March 26, 2024.

Phuoc Tran, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, was among the authors of “Multi-Institutional Analysis of Metastasis-Directed Therapy with or Without Androgen Deprivation Therapy in Oligometastatic Castration-Sensitive Prostate Cancer,” which was published on April 2, 202, ahead of print in European Urology Oncology.

Vassiliy Tsytsarev, PhD, a member of Dr. Reha Erzurumlu’s laboratory in the Department of Neurobiology, was the first author in a new publication titled “Bilateral Whisker Representations in the Primary Somatosensory Cortex in Robo3cKO Mice are Reflected in the Primary Motor Cortex,” which was published in March 2024 in Neuroscience. Online ahead of print.

Marco Venniro, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Neurobiology, was among the authors of a new publication titled “Operant Social Self-administration in Male CD1 Mice,” which was published in Psychopharmacology on March 8, 2024.