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Expanded Cancer Molecular Biomarker Testing
Expanded Cancer Molecular Biomarker Testing will be available from the Molecular Pathology Laboratory for identification of DNA variations in up to 214 genes and include evaluation for copy number alterations in a subset of those genes...

CMVPCR, Congenital Neonatal Screen
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is one of the “TORCH” infections that are passed from mother to fetus in utero. PCR replaces viral culture for the diagnosis of congenital CMV (cCMV)...

Toxoplasma Antibody, IgM
Toxoplasma gondii is an intracellular parasite that is capable of infecting humans...

Insulin-Like Growth Factor I Testing
Insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-1) measurements are used to assess growth hormone (GH) deficiency or excess. Serum IGF-1 concentrations below the 2.5th percentile are consistent with GH deficiency or severe GH resistance...

Buprenorphine, Urine Screen Testing and Buprenorphine Compliance Screen with Reflex Testing
Buprenorphine (Suboxone®, Subutex®) is an opioid partial agonist used as substitution therapy in patients recovering from opioid addiction...

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Recent News & Events

For the 2022 AANP Meeting, Dr. Moore was also invited to give the Korey Lecture. This occurred on Friday afternoon, June 10th. The title of his talk was “Adventures in muscular dystrophy: the DGC, LAMA2, and other sticky relationships.”

In a recently published Kidney International article, Dao-Fu Dai and colleagues demonstrate the potential of a new drug to treat patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease
In this article we demonstrate that Elamipretide, a mitochondrial-targeted peptide, is safe and efficient in maternal and neonatal mice with PKD1 mutations.

Dr. Dao-Fu Dai receives a Scientist Development Grant from the American Heart Association
Dr. Dao-Fu Dai received a three-year SDG grant from the American Heart Association entitled "The Role of Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator (CFTR) in Cardiomyocytes".

Dr. Nitin Karandikar renews VA MERIT grant and also receives the VA Senior Clinician Scientist Investigator (SCSI) Award
Dr. Nitin Karandikar successfully renewed his VA Merit Award, entitled “Immunotherapeutic Regulatory CD8 T cells in Autoimmune Demyelinating Disease.”

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Most Recent Publications

In utero and postnatal ivacaftor/lumacaftor therapy rescues multiorgan disease in CFTR-F508del ferrets. Evans IA, Sun X, Liang B, Vegter AR, Guo L, Lynch TJ, Zhang Y, Zhang Y, Yi Y, Yang Y, Feng Z, Park SY, Shonka A, McCumber H, Qi L, Wu P, Liu G, Lacina A, Wang K, Gibson-Corley KN, Meyerholz DK, Limoli DH, Rosen BH, Yan Z, Bartels DJ, Engelhardt JF. JCI Insight. 2024 Apr 22;9(8):e157229. doi: 10.1172/jci.insight.157229.

Reflex strategy to ensure accurate total testosterone results from consumer initiated, self-collected capillary samples. Naranjo AR, Krasowski MD, Hamdan A, O'Connor K, Carter C, Chen J, Greene DN. Clin Chim Acta. 2024 Apr 15:119676. doi: 10.1016/j.cca.2024.119676. Online ahead of print.

Molecular characterization and survival analysis of a cohort of glioblastoma, IDH-wildtype. Dundar B, Alsawas M, Masaadeh A, Conway K, Snow AN, Sompallae RR, Bossler AD, Ma D, Lopes Abath Neto O. Pathol Res Pract. 2024 Apr 5;257:155272. doi: 10.1016/j.prp.2024.155272. Online ahead of print.

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