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April 1st, 2021

Hackensack Meridian Health’s Center for Discovery and Innovation Develops Advanced Test to Track and Diagnose COVID-19 Variants

New rapid high-throughput test detects E484K COVID-19 mutation in hospital and care settings across New Jersey Experts at the Hackensack…

March 16th, 2021

Hackensack Meridian Health Launches Anthology Diagnostics Laboratories for State-of-the-Art Lab Genomic Profiling of Cancers

Hackensack Meridian Health and Genomic Testing Cooperative (GTC) in Irvine, California, have teamed up to establish the first-of-its-kind genomic profiling laboratory called…

March 15th, 2021

CDI Scientists Take In-Depth Look Into a Pathogenic Fungus

Scientists at the Hackensack Meridian Center for Discovery and Innovation (CDI) and Rutgers University have taken never-before-seen look at the…

March 3rd, 2021

CDI Head Perlin Named to ROI-NJ Power List for COVID-19 Response

David Perlin, Ph.D., the chief scientific officer and senior vice president of the Center for Discovery and Innovation, was named…

February 26th, 2021

CDI Scientists Publish Results of Novel COVID-19 Test

The viral diagnostic test for COVID-19, developed and implemented by scientists from the Hackensack Meridian Center for Discovery and Innovation…

February 19th, 2021

Immune Mechanism Could Boost Vaccine Efficacy, CDI Lab Finds

Effective vaccines may depend on the ability of a key cellular mechanism to limit the immune system’s “brakes” on developing…

February 5th, 2021

Hackensack Meridian Health Awarded $5.5 Million to Continue Convalescent Plasma Work for COVID-19

Treatments using antibodies of pandemic survivors bolstered by federal grant Researchers and clinical experts at Hackensack Meridian Health, New Jersey’s largest and…

February 5th, 2021

CDI Lab Tackles ‘Long-Standing Controversy’ in Certain Leukemias

New research challenges a widely accepted view of beta-catenin’s role in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) — impacting the development of…

January 29th, 2021

The CDI Experts: Gengenbacher and the Fight Against Global Killer TB

COVID-19 has killed 2 million people worldwide over the last year, according to estimates. But year after year in the…

January 11th, 2021

CDI in the News: The COVID-19 Variants

New variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus were identified recently in the United Kingdom and in South Africa. The Hackensack Meridian…

2021

September 22 - Dr. Kevin Tong, seminar: "SMAD4 in Colon Cancer: From Molecular Mechanisms to Modeling Cancer Progression"
October 6 - Dr. Ralph Francescone & Dr. Débora Barbosa Vendramini Costa - seminar: "Synaptic proteins promote microenvironmental support of pancreatic tumorigenesis"
October 21 - Dr. Robert Bowman - seminar: "Uncovering the basis of oncogene-dependency and subclonal evolution in hematopoietic transformation"

Past Events

2020

January 13 - Chen Zhao, seminar: "NF- B/Notch Signaling in B cell transformation and Plasticity"
January 24 - Dr. Masood Kamali-Moghaddam, seminar: "Molecular Tools for Parallel Detection and Characterization of Proteins and Exosome"
January 27 - Virginia Pascual, seminar: "New Insights into Pediatric Lupus Pathogenesis"
February 5 - Dr. Scott Evans, seminar: "Developments in Oncology Clinical Trials"
March 3 - Dr. Jyothi Nagajyothi, seminar: "Adipose tissue, Adipocytes, and Adipomes- the regulators of TB pathology"
March 4 - Dr. Stephen Sykes, seminar: "Regulation of Serine Synthesis & Catabolism in Acute Myeloid Leukemia"
March 9 - Dr. Mary Beth Terry, Genomic Medicine Series seminar: "Improving Cancer Risk Stratification and Risk Reduction"
May 13 - Dr. Katrin D. Mayer-Barber, seminar: "Granulocytic Immune responses to Mtb – Eosinophils kick it off!"
May 22 - Dr. Sharon Manne, seminar: "Cancer Survivorship: State of the Science, Models of Care, and Interventions to Improve Self-Management"
June 17 - Dr. Mark Bustoros, seminar: "Advancements in precursor states of Plasma cell Dycrasias"
July 7 - Dr. Brendon Lee, seminar: "Predicting antibiotic resistance mutations in Mycobacterium tuberculosis using protein engineering"
July 14 - Dr. Leandro Cerchietti, seminar: "Clinical and biological subtypes of B-cell lymphoma revealed by microenvironmental signatures"
July 17 - Dr. Wendy Chung, Genomic Medicine Series seminar: "Opportunities in Genomic Medicine"
July 20 - Dr. Grant Challen, seminar: "The Epigenetic Regulation of Hematopoietic Stem Cells – From Clonal Hematopoiesis to Blood Cancers"
July 22 - Dr. Minh Hong Thi Nguyen, seminar: "Opportunistic infections complicating viral infections"
July 29 - Dr. Jonathan Yewdell - seminar: "Antibody Immunodominance to Viruses"
September 22 - Dr. Francesca Ferraro, seminar: "Immune evasion mechanisms by de novo Acute Myeloid Leukemia Cells"
October 7 - Dr. Warren J. Leonard, seminar - "The γc family of cytokines and fine-tuning their signals"
October 15 - Dr. Jason Sheltzer, seminar: "The role of aneuploidy in cancer development"
October 27 - Dr. Megan Mitchell, Postdoctoral seminar, "Optimization of a versatile, high-purity exosome purification assay for biomarker discovery"
Dr. Dereje Negatu, Postdoctoral seminar, "Human gut microbiota metabolite targets amino acid biosynthesis in Mycobacterium tuberculosis"
November 3 - Alexandre Cheng, Ph.D. student, seminar: "Liquid biopsies for infectious and immune diseases"
November 11 - Dr. Nagi G. Ayad, Seminar: "Multi-omics approaches for identifying synergistic combinations in brain cancer"
November 19 - Dr. David van Duin, Seminar: "Infections in immunocompromised hosts: challenges and opportunities"
April 27 - Dr. Kelly O'Neill, Postdoc seminar: "Elucidating Molecular Heterogeneity Within theGlioblastoma Multiforme Tumor Microenvironment Using Matrix Assisted LaserDesorption/Ionization (MALDI) Mass Spectrometry Imaging (MSI)"
November 24 - Dr. Meenal Datta, Seminar: "Abnormal Mechanics in Brain Tumors: Implications for Immunotherapy"
December 10 - Dr. Michail Lionakis, seminar: "Of mice and humans: Host defense against fungal disease"

2021

January 13 - Dr. Lindsey James, seminar: "Promoting Illiteracy: Altering the H3 methylation landscape through inhibition of methyl-lysine readers"
January 27 - Dr. Jaewon Min, seminar: "Telomerase-independent telomere maintenance mechanisms in human cancers"
February 4 - Dr. Mone Zaidi, seminar: "Genes, Diseases and New Medicines - Lessons from Team Science"
February 10 - Dr. Khashayarsha Khazaie, seminar: "Regulatory T-cells in colorectal cancer"
February 18 - Dr. Fotini Gounari, seminar: "Co-operative signaling in double positive thymocyte development and transformation"
March 4 - Dr. Yi Zhang, seminar: "The Epigenetic Control of T Cell Stemness: A Guiding Role of EZH2"
March 17 - Dr. Michaela Reagan, seminar: "Investigating the Role of Fatty Acid Binding Proteins in Multiple Myeloma"
March 24 - Dr. Francesmary Modugno, seminar: "Of Mice and Women: New Directions in Ovarian Cancer Translational Research"
March 30 - Dr. Francesca Gany, seminar, "Multilevel Translational Research to Facilitate Health Equity"
April 8 - Dr. Robert Klein, seminar: "The role of inherited genetic variation in prostate cancer"
April 15 - Dr. Theresa Li-Yun Chang, seminar: "Not all type I IFNs are the same: IFN epsilon in immune response, viral infection and cancer."
April 20 - Dr. Majid Kazemian, seminar: "Dissecting Host-pathogen interactions in infectious diseases: from cancer to COVID-19"
April 27 - Dr. Kelly O'Neill, Postdoc seminar: "Elucidating Molecular Heterogeneity Within theGlioblastoma Multiforme Tumor Microenvironment Using Matrix Assisted LaserDesorption/Ionization (MALDI) Mass Spectrometry Imaging (MSI)"
April 27 - Dr. Uday Ganapathy, Postdoc seminar: "A Leucyl-tRNA Synthetase Inhibitor withBroad-Spectrum Anti-Mycobacterial Activity"
May 12 - CDI | Georgetown - Postdoctoral Seminar Series Dr. Randi Williams: "Multilevel Approaches to Address Cancer Disparities in the Clinical Context" Dr. Shaymaa Bahnassy: ''Subclonal Hypermutation as a Potential Mechanism of Drug Resistance in HER2+/ER+ Breast Cancer"
May 20 - Dr. Ali Torkamani, seminar: "Genotype First"
June 1 - Dr. Patrizia Mondello, seminar: "Precision epigenetic-immunotherapy for B-cell lymphoma"
June 30 - Dr. Lok To (Chris) Sham, seminar: "Exploiting capsule synthesis pathway in Streptococcus pneumoniae to identify new antimicrobial compounds"
July 22 - Dr. Weiguo Cui, seminar: "T cell exhaustion in chronic viral infection and cancer"
August 11 - Dr. Jigarkumar Desai, seminar: "Complement C5a signaling in antifungal host defense"
August 18 - Dr. Alvin Makohon-Moore, seminar: "Evolutionary analyses of human cancers"
September 1 - Dr. Jayati Basu, seminar: "ThPOKing immune cell development and function"