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 |
| Andre Hoerning, M.D. | 2007-2009 | Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Fellowship Grant |
| Sarah Bruneau, Ph.D. | 2010-2012 | Fellowship Award American Society of Transplantation |
Mentored Ph.D Thesis
Marlies Reinders, Ph.D.(2000-2002)
Thesis Entitled Mechanistic And Functional Interrelationships Between
VEGF-Induced Angiogenesis, Cell-Mediated Immunity And Allograft Rejection.
Defended November 2004, University of Leiden. Holland. Received "Best
Thesis Award" in 2004, Dutch Nephrology Congress.
Clinical Teaching Program
Dr. Briscoe is the Director of the Pediatric Nephrology Training Program and maintains all activity related to the training grant with Dr. William E. Harmon, Chief, Division of Nephrology.