The Briscoe Laboratory

Teaching
Transplant Research Program

Dr. Briscoe actively engages in one-on-one teaching of trainees in the laboratory. When training in the laboratory, research fellows do hands-on laboratory work and interact with one another extensively. We have found that our “team approach” to training enables all trainees to develop a broad expertise in immunology. We believe that interactions among research fellows from different backgrounds (Undergraduate, and graduate M.D. or/and Ph.D students) helps to ensure the high quality of research. Furthermore, Dr Briscoe encourages everyone in the laboratory to participate at National Meetings and to compete for research training awards and grants.

An indication of the laboratory group’s success in research training is the receipt of National Awards and the development of trainee’s into NIH funded investigators. Dr Pal, who currently works as junior faculty within our group, received a NIH K01 award, a Faculty Development award from the AST and an ASN Merrill Junior Faculty grant. Two past fellows (Dr’s Frank and Denton) received NIH K08 awards as junior faculty in Harvard Affiliated Hospitals, and Dr Frank is currently an NIH R01 funded investigator. Other past fellows who received notable awards include Dr Jesse Flaxenburg, who received a NIH NRSA, Dr. Dmitry Samsonov who received a Basic Research Fellowship from the AST and Dr. Michael Melter who received an award for the Most Outstanding Abstract submitted to the AST in 1999 and the Most Outstanding Abstract Award from the American Society of Pediatric Nephrology in 2000. In addition, since 1998 through 2005, many of Dr Briscoe's research fellows received Young Investigator Awards for work submitted as abstracts to various societies annual meetings, as an indication of the overall high priority. A summary of the awards received by Dr Briscoe’s trainee’s are listed below.

Mentored Research Awards and Grants

Name	Year	Type of Award
Mark Denton, M.D.	1998-2000	NRSA National Institutes of Health (NIAID)
Michael Melter, M.D	1998-1999	Fellowship Award, Hanover School of Medicine
Markus Frank, M.D.	1999-2001	Novartis Fellowship Award in Transplantation, American Society of Transplantation
Michael Melter, M.D	1999	TEAM Award (Most Outstanding Abstract), American Society of Transplantation
Michael Melter, M.D	2000	Research Award, American Society of Pediatric Nephrology
Dmitry Samsonov, M.D	2000-2002	Basic Research Fellowship Grant, American Society of Transplantation
Mark Denton, M.D.	2001-2006	KO8 Award National Institutes of Health (NIAID)
Markus Frank, M.D.	2001-2003	Council Faculty Grant American Society of Transplantation
Markus Frank, M.D.	2001-2002	Research Award National Kidney Foundation
Gwen Boulday, Ph.D.	2002-2003	Postdoctoral fellowship grant, Foundation Pour la Recherche Medicale, Paris, France
Markus Frank, M.D.	2002-2005	KO8 award National Institutes of Health (NIAID)
Peter Lapchak, Ph.D.	2002-2003	Pediatric Renal Research Award, National Kidney Foundation
Soumitro Pal, Ph.D.	2002-2004	Basic Science Faculty Grant American Society of Transplantation
Jesse Flaxenburg, M.D.	2003-2005	NRSA National Institutes of Health (NHLBI)
Markus Frank, M.D.	2002-2004	NIH SPORE Grant in Skin Cancer (Subcontract-NCI)
Soumitro Pal, Ph.D.	2003-relinquished	Scientist Development Award American Heart Association
Soumitro Pal, Ph.D.	2003-2008	KO1 award National Institutes of Health (NIDDK)
Stuart Robertson, M.D	2003-2004	Pediatric Renal Research Award, National Kidney Foundation
Marlies Reinders, M.D., Ph.D	2004	Novartis Transplantation Award Best transplantation paper in Holland, 2004 Best Thesis, 2004. Dutch Nephrology Congress
Markus Frank, M.D.	2006-2011	R01 Award National Institutes of Health (NCI)
Alan Contreras, M.D.	2006-2008	Research Fellowship Award American Society of Transplant Surgeons
Olivier Dormond, M.D., Ph.D.	2006-2008	Swiss Foundation for Grants in Medicine and Biology; Research Fellowship Grant
Monika Edelbauer, M.D.	2006-2008	Austrian Science Fund