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On June 13, a ceremony was held in honor of 38 graduating Mayo Clinic Residency and Fellowship Program trainees. Program directors, associate program directors, consultants, and education staff celebrated the tremendous accomplishments of the graduates.

According to Mayo Clinic research published in JAMA, six genes contain mutations that may be passed down in families, substantially increasing a person’s risk for pancreatic cancer.

Joseph Grande, M.D., Ph.D., was recently awarded the 2018 Teacher of the Year Award for basic science education from the Mayo Clinic School of Medicine.

Just as money in the bank boosts your financial well-being, biobanks have the power to impact your health. Think of biobank samples as assets that researchers can draw upon to improve disease treatments.

Jeff Meeusen, Ph.D., Co-Director of Cardiovascular Laboratory Medicine, recently had his paper, “Plasma Ceramides—A Novel Predictor of Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events after Coronary Angiography” accepted by the peer-reviewed journal Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology (ATVB), part of the American Heart Association’s group of journals.

For Sharon Preuss, Education Manager at Mayo Medical Laboratories in Rochester and winner of the title of "Blood Donor of the Month" this past February, a space at the entrance of her building, the Superior Drive Support Center, helped stave off Old Man Winter.

In this sketchnote, Jennifer Mieres, M.D., discusses Northwell Health’s journey to empower a community to care through a formalized diversity and inclusion strategy, education, and outreach.

Jeremy Zacher, Education Specialist in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, highlights eight ways to enhance your teaching and learning.

Matthew Binnicker, Ph.D., has been elected President of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology. Dr. Binnicker will serve a two-year term beginning in 2020.

The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society has awarded a Translation Research Program grant to Andrew Feldman, M.D., for his work, “Biomarker-Based Strategies for Personalized Therapy of ALK-Negative Anaplastic Large-Cell Lymphoma.”

Mayo Clinic laboratory workers have a new tool to perform high tech genetic sleuthing for the source of stubborn, sometimes life-threatening bacteria.

Jane Hermansen, Outreach and Network Manager at Mayo Medical Laboratories in Rochester, Minnesota, recently authored an article featured in MedicalLab Management on integrating laboratory outreach across the health system.

This week’s Research Roundup highlights the detection of gastric cancer with novel methylated DNA markers: discovery, tissue validation, and pilot testing in plasma.