The  UChicago Medicine has received a $10 million gift to establish the David and Etta Jonas Center for Cellular Therapy to support research to find personalized therapies for difficult-to-treat cancers. Michael Bishop, MD,  Professor of Medicine (Section of Hematology/Oncology) will serve as director of the new Jonas Center. He will be working with Amittha Wickrema, PhD, Professor of Medicine (Section of Hematology/Oncology), as well as Hans Schreiber, MD, PhD, in the Department of Pathology, and other colleagues to expand cell therapy to solid tumors and expand the number of patients who can benefit from the treatment. The center — named … Read More

Karen Kim, MD, Professor of Medicine in the Section of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition and Dean for Faculty Affairs for the Division of the Biological Sciences, has been appointed as  Vice Provost for Research, effective March 9,2020 . In this role, Dr. Kim will work with faculty and deans to support and enhance external research funding and manage large-scale research structures such as University Research Administration (URA) and the University of Chicago Consortium for Advanced Science and Engineering (CASE), the Office of Research Safety, Research Computing Center, and Research Development Support. Dr. Kim  has served as Associate Director of the … Read More

Antonio Bianco,MD,PhD has been selected as the recipient of the  American Thyroid Association‘s 2020 John B. Stanbury Thyroid Pathophysiology Medal in recognition of his extraordinary contributions to thyroid disease research. Dr. Bianco, professor of medicine in the Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, is an internationally recognized expert in the study of thyroid hormone action, particularly in the local control of thyroid hormone activation by deiodinase enzymes.  He is a Past President of the American Thyroid Association and a former recipient of the Van Meter Award from the American Thyroid Association, the Rosalind-Pitts-Rivers Medal from the British Thyroid Association, and … Read More

Congratulations to the Janet D. Rowley Research Day Best Abstract Winners: Faculty: Joseph Wynne,MD,PhD (Hematology/ Oncology)- Basic Research: “Targeting BACH1 inhibits HIF-induced tumor hypoxia and improves radiation treatment in triple negative breast cancer (TNBC)” Felicia D’Souza,MD (Hospital Medicine)-Clinical Research: “Appropriateness and Safety of Direct Access Endoscopy (DAE) in Hospitalized Patients” Kimberly Stanford, MD (Emergency Medicine)-Health Services Research:   Routine HIV testing in Emergency Department relies on effective electronic medical record prompts, provider buy-in, and dedicated staff follow-up” Alexander Pearson,MD,PhD (Hematology/Oncology)-Translational Research: “Deep learning detects actionable molecular and clinical states directly from head/neck squamous cell carcinoma histopathology slides”   Trainees: Xiaoou Li,MD,PhD … Read More

Three Department of Medicine faculty were recently elected to the Association of American Physicians (AAP): Marisa Alegre, MD, PhD, Gokhan Mutlu, MD and Thomas Gajewski,MD,PhD. The AAP is an honorific, elected society of America’s leading physician-scientists who exemplify the pinnacle of pioneering and enduring, impactful contributions to improve health. Dr. Alegre, Professor of Medicine in the Section of Rheumatology, is a leader in the field of transplantation immunology. Stemming from her clinical training as an intensivist and her basic immunology training, she addresses critical clinical questions with new mouse models of solid organ transplantation. This has led to several paradigm-shifting … Read More