Faculty Accomplishments

• Erica Andersen/Rong Mao/Marzia Pasquali: Awarded ClinGen Phase 3 Grant from The National Human Genome Research Institute
• Elizabeth Frank: Awarded the 2021 SYCL Mentorship Award by the American Board of Clinical Chemistry
• Tracy George: Coauthored 2 Nature Medicine articles related to 2 pivotal clinical trials for treatment of patients with advanced Systemic Mastocytosis
• Eszter Lazar-Molnar: Case Study Award for the 2021 American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics (ASHI) 47th Annual Meeting- Orlando, FL.
• Vijayalakshmi Nandakumar: Elected to the Executive Committee of the Clinical Diagnostic and Immunology Division for the American Association of Clinical Chemistry; Appointed as Member of the Education Committee for the American Medical Laboratory Immunologists
• Kristi Smock: Appointed as Co-Chair for the Thrombosis and Hemostasis Societies of North America 2022 and 2024 Summits

Publications

• Comparison of Next-Generation Sequencing-Based Human Leukocyte Antigen Typing with Clinical Flow Cytometry and Allele-Specific PCR Melting Assays for HLA-B27 Genotyping. Profaizer T, Dibb K, Bethers H, Monds C, Andreasen J, Delgado JC, Lázár-Molnár E.J Appl Lab Med. 2021 Sep 1;6(5):1221-1227. doi: 10.1093/jalm/jfab046.PMID: 34151972

Tracy George, President, ARUP Laboratories: 2 publications in press at Nature Medicine which relate to 2 pivotal clinical trials for treatment of patients with advanced systemic mastocytosis (avapritinib recently approved by the FDA)

• DeAngelo DJ, Radia DH, George TI, Robinson WA, Quiery AT, Drummond MW, Bose P, Hexner EO, Winton EF, Horny HP, Tugnait M, Schmidt-Kittler O, Evans EK, Lin H, Mar BG, Verstovek S, Deininger MW, Gotlib J (In Press). Safety and Efficacy of Avapritinib in Advanced Systemic Mastocytosis: the Phase 1 EXPLORER trial. Nat Med.
• Gotlib J, Reiter A, Radia DH, Deininger MW, George TI, Panse J, Vannucchi AM, Platzbecker U, Alvarez-Twose I, Mital A, Hermine O, Dyebedal I, Hexner EO, Hicks LK, Span L, Mesa R, Bose P, Pettit KM, Heaney ML, Oh ST, Sen J, Lin H, Mar BG, DeAngelo DJ (In Press). Efficacy and safety of Avapritinib in Patients with Advanced Systemic Mastocytosis: An Interim Analysis of the Phase 2 PATHFINDER Trial. Nat Med.