Pathology faculty present at international meeting

Guillermo A. Herrera. M.D., gives the keynote presentation.

Two pathology faculty members from the Whiddon College of Medicine presented at the Fifth International Meeting of International Kidney & Monoclonal Gammopathy Research Group, held last month in Milan, Italy. 

Guillermo A. Herrera. M.D., professor and chair of pathology, was the keynote speaker at the event, which drew more than 100 participants from all continents interested in multiple myeloma. He discussed mechanisms of renal dysfunction and damage in monoclonal gammopathy of renal significance, a subject he has been researching the last 36 years. 

Other members of the team responsible for the research findings reported include Jiamin Teng, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of pathology; Elba Turbat-Herrera, M.D., Ph.D., professor of pathology; Luis del Pozo-Yauner, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of pathology; and Chun Zeng, Ph.D., research associate. 

Luis del Pozo-Yauner, M.D., Ph.D., also presented at the meeting. He discussed an antibody and site-directed mutagenesis-based strategy to understand immunoglobulin light chain amyloid aggregation. 

Members of the research team include Guillermo A. Herrera, M.D.; Elba Turbat-Herrera, M.D.; Vindhya Bellamkonda, M.D., pathology resident; and Bing Liu, electron microscopy specialist.