January 2024
Congratulations – Oluwademilade Dairo, MS
We congratulate Lade for her work on FASN Gene Methylation is Associated with Fatty Acid Synthase Expression and Clinical-genomic Features of Prostate Cancer, published in Cancer Research Communications.
Welcome – Mithila Kasbe
JHU Biotechnology Master student, Mithila Kasbe joins the Lotan lab.
November 2023
Dr. Lotan gave the 23rd Annual William Wallace Scott Memorial Lectureship at the 18th Brady Urological Institute Donald S. Coffey Research Day, where she presented her ongoing research on “The Immunogenomic Landscape of Prostate Cancer in Black Men”.
Lade presented a poster at the 18th Annual Department of Urology Donald S. Coffey, Ph.D. Prostate Research Day.
September 2023
Lade presented a poster on the “Association of fatty acid synthase expression with FASN gene methylation and self-identified race in prostate cancer” at the 16th AACR Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities in Racial/Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved, in Orlando, Florida.
Kaushal gave an abstract presentation at the 2023 Early Career Researcher Symposium on “AMPK mediates oncogenic transformation in TSC” during the International TSC Research Conference in Washington DC.
July 2023
Kaushal spoke at The Kidney Cancer Research Summit on “Targeting GPNMB in Renal Tumors in Tuberous Sclerosis Complex and Translocation Renal Cell Carcinoma” in Boston, MA.
June 2023
Congratulations! – Eric Erak, MD
We congratulate Eric on his outstanding work on Predicting Prostate Cancer Molecular Subtype with Deep Learning on Histopathologic Images, as published in Modern Pathology.
Congratulations! – Adrianna A. Mendes, MD
Adrianna received the Margaret Foti Foundation Scholar-in-Training Award, at the AACR meeting for Advances in Kidney Cancer Research, in Austin, TX. The awarded poster is titled “Development and Characterization of Novel Pre-Clinical Models of SFPQ-TFE-driven Renal Cell Carcinoma”, which is part of an ongoing project on the development of tRCC mouse models with the participation of Kaushal, Juhyung, Hans, and Dr. Lotan serving as mentor.
May 2023
Congratulations! – Sanaz Nourmohammadi, MD
We congratulate Sanaz for her excellent work on“MLH1 Loss in Primary Prostate Cancer”as published in JCO Precision Oncology.
March 2023
Amazing contribution from the Lotan Lab during the 112th USCAP Annual Meeting.
– Lia gave a platform presentation on “Predicting Prostate Cancer Outcome with Artificial Intelligence”.
– Adrianna, Eric, Lia and Dr. Lotan all presented posters at the meeting.
January 2023
Dr. Tamara Lotan, Dr. Kaushal Asrani, and their team were highlighted this week in the JH Newsroom, on their impactful work on mTORC1 signaling published recently in Nature Communications.
December 2022
Congratulations! – Tamara Lotan, MD
Dr. Tamara Lotan received the 2022 Tuberous Sclerosis Complex Research Program (TSCRP) Idea Development Award: “Exploring and Leveraging Therapeutic Vulnerabilities in Renal Tumors with TSC1/2 Loss”.
November 2022
Adrianna, Eric, and Lia presented posters at the 17th Annual Department of Urology Donald S. Coffey, Ph.D. Prostate Research Day.
Kaushal’s work on An mTORC1-mediated Negative Feedback Loop Constrains Amino Acid-induced FLCN-Rag Activation in Renal Cells with TSC2 loss, was published in Nature Communications.
June 2022
Congratulations! – Adrianna A. Mendes, MD
We congratulate Adrianna on her phenomenal work on the “Association of B7-H3 expression with racial ancestry, immune cell density, and androgen receptor activation in prostate cancer”, published in Cancer.
Congratulations! – Daniela Salles, MD
In memory of Daniela, we recognize her outstanding contribution for her publication on GPNMB Expression Identifies TSC1/2/mTOR-associated and MiT Family Translocation-driven Renal Neoplasms which appears in the Journal of Pathology.
February 2022
Congratulations! – Kaushal Asrani, MBBS, PhD
Kaushal received the 2021 Kidney Cancer Research Program (KCRP) Idea Development Award to examine whether “GPNMB Constitutes a Novel Therapeutic Target in Renal Neoplasms in Tuberous Sclerosis Complex (TSC) and Translocation Renal Cell Carcinoma (tRCC)”.
December 2021
Congratulations! – Kaushal Asrani, MBBS, PhD Amazing publication from Kaushal on theReciprocal INSM1 Expression and YAP1 Loss in Neuroendocrine Prostate Cancer, which appears in the Journal of Pathology.
October 2021
Congratulations! – Adrianna A. Mendes, MD
Adrianna received the AACR Scholar-in-Training Award at the 14th AACR Conference on The Science of Cancer Health Disparities in Racial/Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved for her poster presentation on“The Association of B7-H3 expression in Prostate Cancer with Racial Ancestry”.
October 12, 2021
In Memoriam – Daniela Correia Salles, MD
It is with a heavy heart that we share the devastating and unexpected loss of our friend and colleague, Dr. Daniela Correia Salles. Dr. Salles was completing a research postdoctoral fellowship with Tamara Lotan following a clinical Urologic Pathology fellowship mentored by Jonathan Epstein at Johns Hopkins. She was an outstanding pathologist and researcher who led and contributed to a large number of prostate cancer biomarker studies. Always with a smile on her face, she was a vibrant and generous colleague who will be sorely missed. Our thoughts are with Dr. Salles’ family as we mourn her loss.
A memorial service took place at Johns Hopkins on October 25 and can be viewed at this link.
March 2021
Adrianna, Daniela, and Kaushal presented a poster at the USCAP 110th Annual Meeting.
2020
Congratulations! – Tamara Lotan, MD
Dr. Tamara Lotan received the 2020 Kidney Cancer Research Program (KCRP) Idea Development Award: “Targeting Lysosomal Biogenesis in Renal Tumors with TSC1/2 Loss”.
December 2019
Congratulations! – Kaushal Asrani, MBBS, PhD
We commend Kaushal’s work on mTORC1 Feedback to AKT Modulates Lysosomal Biogenesis through MiT/TFE Regulation published in The Journal of Clinical Investigation.
May 2019
Kaushal’s abstract on “mTORC1 Feedback to AKT Modulates Lysosomal Biogenesis through MiT/TFE Regulation” was selected for a mini-symposium presentation at the 2019 Society for Investigative Dermatology Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL.
January 2019
Congratulations! – Kaushal Asrani, MBBS, PhD
Kaushal received the 2018 Tuberous Sclerosis Complex Research Program (TSCRP) Exploration – Hypothesis Development Award to study the role of “mTORC1 in Regulating MITF Expression and Lysosomal Biogenesis”.
April 2018
Congratulations! – Kaushal Asrani, MBBS, PhD
Kaushal was selected as the recipient of the Paul Ehrlich Award by the Young Investigators’ Day Committee at the Johns Hopkins University.
November 2017
Congratulations! – Kaushal Asrani, MBBS, PhD
We congratulate Kaushal for his publication on mTORC1 Loss Impairs Epidermal Adhesion via TGF-β/Rho Kinase Activation as seen in The Journal of Clinical Investigation.
April 2017
Abstract on “mTORC1 Loss Impairs Epidermal Adhesion via TGF-β/Rho Kinase Activation” by Kaushal was selected for a mini-symposium presentation at the 2017 Society for Investigative Dermatology Annual Meeting in Portland, OR.