November 2024
CCEH Newsletter
NIDKK-Sponsered Cooperative Centers of Excellence in Hematology
Issue 14
Seminar Series
1. Red Cell meeting combined East West Iron meeting 2024
2. Coming in December ASH meeting 2024
3. Coming in May 2025 BioIron Meeting
Hot off the Press
1. Identification of a divalent metal transporter required for cellular iron metabolism in malaria parasites
2. CDK9 phosphorylates RUNX1 to promote megakaryocytic fate in megakaryocytic-erythroid progenitors
Featured Faculty
New Utah CCEH Leader Anna Beaudin, PhD
Welcome to Dr. Anna Beaudin as the leader of the Utah CCEH. She is the Director of the NIDDK U54 Utah Center of Excellence in Hematology Center for Iron and Heme Disorders and the leader of the NIDDK U24 Coordinating Center of Excellence in Hematology along with Dr. Derek Stirewalt at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center. Dr. Beaudin’s research focuses on fetal hematopoiesis/hematopoietic stem cells and she has developed key critical tools to address major questions in this field using mouse models of hematopoiesis. To learn more about her check out her lab website here.