«It's character building, it really is,» said Garg,
a molecular pathologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and a postdoc at MIT's Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research.
As a gastrointestinal (GI) and
molecular pathologist, my clinical focus is on provision of expert cutting edge surgical and molecular pathology services.
We're discovering new genetic alterations driving lung cancer, new drugs to target these alterations, and are refining our use of tests to find these alterations in individual patients,» says Dara Aisner, MD, PhD, investigator at the University of Colorado Cancer Center,
molecular pathologist at CU School of Medicine Department of Pathology, and one of the panel experts.
Dual training has certainly benefited Marcin Imielinski,
a molecular pathologist at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City.
Not exact matches
The Moores Cancer Center's
Molecular Tumor Board brought together medical, surgical and radiation therapy oncologists, biostatisticians, radiologists,
pathologists, clinical geneticists, basic and translational science researchers, and bioinformatics and pathway analysis specialists to discuss the intricacies of tumor genetics and tailor a personalized treatment plan for patients with advanced cancer or who have exhausted standard therapies.
Some
molecular biologists may have enough clout to coax
pathologists into mending their poorly controlled ways.
While Novartis is still recruiting traditional veterinary
pathologists trained in toxicology, it is also looking for toxicologists with a background in biochemistry,
molecular biology, and modern biology techniques who are interested in
molecular - based risk assessment.
«
Pathologists who specialize in
molecular diagnostics and lung cancer collaborated to create the guideline to minimize variation and provide greater precision in the care of patients.»
In an era of precision medicine, the guideline provides recommendations for
pathologists, oncologists, and other cancer health professionals on the current state - of - the - art recommendations for the
molecular testing of lung cancer.
You have to be a population biologist, a botanist, an ecologist, a biophysicist, a biochemist, a microbiologist, a
molecular biologist, a bioengineer, a geneticist, an evolutionary biologist, a developmental biologist, a zoologist, an anatomist, a
pathologist, a virologist, an ichthyologist, a herpetologist, an ornithologist, a paleontologist, an exobiologist, or you - get - the - gist.
The work represents «a really nice collaboration between
molecular biologists and plant breeders,» says Jan Leach, a plant
pathologist at Colorado State University in Fort Collins.
The
molecular basis of the virus's lethality began to unfold in 2005, when
pathologist Jeffrey Taubenberger, then at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington, D.C., resurrected the flu virus from historic samples and demonstrated its lethality in mice (ScienceNOW, 5 October 2005).
And they found that key areas in chromosomes, the centromeric regions, are 25 % smaller in the benign fungus, for reasons unknown but that offer «an excellent starting point for follow - up investigations,» notes Kim Hammond - Kosack, a
molecular plant
pathologist at Rothamsted and leader of the research team.
«This study highlights the fact that some tumors with the same characterization by
pathologists may have very different
molecular features.
BETHESDA, MD. — June 28, 2016 — The College of American
Pathologists (CAP), the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC), and the Association for
Molecular Pathology (AMP) announced today the open comment period for the revised evidence - based guideline, «
Molecular Testing Guideline for Selection of Lung Cancer Patients for EGFR and ALK Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors.»
In 2013, an expert panel made up of members of the College of American
Pathologists, the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer, and the Association for
Molecular Pathology published guidelines describing the genetic tests that should be performed to evaluate a patient's lung cancer.
This allows
pathologists to diagnose the existence of cancer, but the sample tends to be very small, and there's been some debate about how useful that small amount of material can be for
molecular testing,» Aisner says.
The other authors on the paper were Reuben J. Shaw, a professor in Salk's
Molecular and Cell Biology Laboratory; Salk postdoctoral researcher, Narayana Yeddula, and
pathologist, Mathias Leblanc; Eugene Ke, of University of California, San Diego; and Yonghui Zhang and Eric Oldfield, of the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign.
His honours and awards include the inaugural Gutenberg Professorship of the University of Strasbourg, the Order of Australia and Australian Government Centenary Medal, Fellowship of the Australian Academy of Science, Associate Membership of the European
Molecular Biology Organization, Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of
Pathologists of Australasia, the International Union of Biochemistry &
Molecular Biology Medal, the Human Genome Organisation Chen Award for Distinguished Achievement in Human Genetic & Genomic Research, and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Bertner Memorial Award for Distinguished Contributions to Cancer Research.
Dr. Stenzel currently serves as an elected member of the College of American
Pathologists House of Delegates, on the College of American
Pathologists Molecular Oncology Committee, and on the Association for
Molecular Pathology Finance Committee.
For
molecular geneticist Katie Coats, that means working with the WSDA and WSU Puyallup plant
pathologist Gary Chastagner to understand the genetics of the exotic plant pathogen Phytophthora ramorum, the cause of sudden oak death.
I always get these mixed up, and so I'm really a
pathologist now, officially, although I'm in actual fact — have been for a long time — and I'm now a
molecular geneticist... is the best description of what I am.
Research Plant
Pathologist /
Molecular Biologist, August 2011 — present Agricultural Research Service — Pullman, Washington