The Feroze Ghadially and J. Allan Tucker Awards
Sponsored by the Society for Ultrastructural Pathology Feroze Novroji Ghadially (1920–2014): a personal remembrance – Peter B. Marcus, MD Joseph Allan Tucker Jr., MD (1956-2016): Paul Taylor
The Society for Ultrastructural Pathology has established the Feroze Ghadially and J. Allan Tucker Awards for either a platform or a poster presentation that are based on an ultrastructural study or use of electron microscopy to a major extent, and which is judged to be the most outstanding during the biennial UltraPath meetings.
Each award is for $500 and is open to any individual in training (including residents; fellows; medical students; or postdoctoral, graduate, or undergraduate students) in an accredited training program who has submitted an abstract that is accepted for presentation. Winning abstract(s) will be included in the Society for Ultrastructural Pathology Newsletter. Arrangements also have been made to submit the contents of the presentation for publication in the journal Ultrastructural Pathology.
The two awards are named in honor of Dr. Feroze Novroji Ghadially and Dr. Joseph Allan Tucker for their long time support of and contributions to the Society for Ultrastructual Pathology and for their dedication to the field of investigation and teaching. The Ghadially Award was established at the 2013 United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP) meeting; the Tucker Award was established at the 2014 USCAP meeting. In previous years, these awards were presented as the “Pathologist in Training Award”, and subsequently, have been broadened to include any type of student in training at an accredited institution.
Complete application guidelines are available below.
Send Applications to:
John Hicks, M.D., Ph.D., D.D.S.
Awards Committee Chair
Email: awards@ultrapath.org
Ghadially and Tucker Award Application Guidelines
Eligibility Requirements
- The abstract must be accepted for presentation at the poster session of the UltraPath meeting.
- The first author must be an individual in training (including residents; fellows; medical students; or postdoctoral, graduate, or undergraduate students).
Materials to be Submitted
- Abstract (this is the same format as the abstract for the UltraPath general submission).
- Application cover letter stating that the abstract should be considered for the Ghadially or Tucker Award. Please include your name, level of training, institution, mailing address, daytime phone number, fax number, and email address.
- Letter from your faculty mentor, residency or graduate director, department head, or meeting program chair validating your status in a training program.
Methods of Submission
- The abstract(s) and application cover letter can be forwarded by fax or email.
- Use regular mail or scanned letter with signature sent via email attachment to send the validation letter.
- If the validation letter is not received before the deadline for entries, your abstract will not be considered.
Winner Notification
Winners will be notified by email. An announcement will follow on the SUP website.
Deadline for Submission
UltraPath Abstract Deadline.
Past Winners
2022 ULTRAPATH XX J. Allan Tucker Award Winner: Anita Grootemaat
Amsterdam University Medical Center
Abstract: Lipid and Nucleocapsid N-protein Accumulation in COVID-19 patient lung and infected cells
Anita E. Grootemaat1, Sanne van der Niet1, Edwin R. Scholl1, Eva Roos2, Bernadette Schurink2, Marianna Bugiani2, Sara E. Miller3, Per Larsen1,2, Jeannette Pankras, Eric A. Reits1, Nicole N. van der Wel1
1Electron Microscopy Centre Amsterdam, Medical Biology, Amsterdam University Medical Centre AMC, the Netherlands. 2Department of Pathology, Amsterdam University Medical Center (UMC), VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam the Netherlands. 3Department of Pathology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
2022 ULTRAPATH XX Feroze Ghadially Award Winner: Kawther Mohammed Al Adawi
Sultan Qaboos University
Abstract: Cilia Ultrastructure Associated with Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia in Omani Patients
Taher Ba Omar Marwa AL Riyami Nawal Al Shamli Khoula Al Shidhani ALiya Al Ansari Hussien Al Kindi
2018 ULTRAPATH XIX J. Allan Tucker Award Winner: John M. Carney, MD
Department of Pathology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
Abstract: Dusting Off The Numbers of In Situ Particle Analysis: A Twenty-Five Year Experience
John M. Carney MD1, Elizabeth N. Pavlisko MD1, Thomas A. Sporn MD1, and Victor L. Roggli MD1
1Department of Pathology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
2018 ULTRAPATH XIX Feroze Ghadially Award Winner: Ehab O. A. Hafiz, MBBCh, MSc
Center for Engineering in Medicine (CEM), Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Ehab O.A. Hafiz1,2, Basak E. Uygun1, Soheir S. Mansy2, Ali A. F. Hindawi3, Martin L. Yarmush1
1Center for Engineering in Medicine (CEM), Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. 2Electron Microscopy Research Department, Theodor Bilharz Research Institute (TBRI), Giza, Egypt. 3Pathology Department, Kasr Al Ainy, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Egypt.
2016 ULTRAPATH XVIII J. Allan Tucker Award Winner: Leonel Maldonado, MD
Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Abstract: Immunotactoid Glomerulopathy in a Patient with Hepatitis C Viral Infection
Leonel Maldonado, M.D.1 , Abhijin Das, M.D.2 , Andrea G. Kahn, M.D.1 , David Howell, M.D. Ph.D.3
1University of South Alabama Medical Center, Department of Pathology, Mobile, Alabama, US 2University of South Alabama Medical Center, Department of Nephrology, Mobile, Alabama, US 3Duke University Medical Center, Department of Pathology, Durham, North Carolina, US
2016 ULTRAPATH XVII Feroze Ghadially Award Winner: Carsten Dittmayer, MD
Department of Anatomy, Charité Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Carsten Dittmayer1 , Eckhard Völcker2 , Irene Wacker3 , Rasmus Schröder3,4, Sebastian Bachmann1
1Department of Anatomy, Charité Berlin, Berlin, Germany; 2Penard Labs, Berlin, Germany; 3Centre for Advanced Material, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany; 4Cryo EM Cell Networks Bioquant, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
2016 USCAP-SUP J. Allan Tucker Award Winner: Guanjun Xia, MD
Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Abstract: Drug Induced Phospholipidosis in Kidney: Ultrastructural Features
Guanjun Xia1, Sirma Koutzaki1, Shahad Abdulameer1, Shraddha Patel1, Suganthi Soundararajan11Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, United States
2016 USCAP-SUP Feroze Ghadially Award Winner: Raquel Albero-Gonzalez, MD
Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain
Raquel Albero1, Lara Pijuan1, Mercedes Simon1, Nuria Juanpere1, Ivonne Vazquez1, Adria Lloret1, Jessica Munne2, Ignacio Sanchez1, Sergio Serrano1,3, Josep Lloreta1,4
1Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain; 2Istituto Clinico Humanitas, Milan, Italy; 3Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; 4Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain
2015 USCAP Feroze Ghadially Award Winner: Mingyu Cheng, MD
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Department of Pathology and Translational Pathobiology, Shreveport, LA, USA
Abstract: Dendritic Cells in Renal Biopsies of Patients With Acute Tubulointerstitial Nephritis
Mingyu Cheng MD1, Guillermo A. Herrera, MD11Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Department of Pathology and Translational Pathobiology, Shreveport, LA, USA
2014 USCAP Feroze Ghadially Award Winner: Eric Wartchow, PhD
Children’s Hospital Colorado, Department of Pathology, Anschutz Medical Campus, CO
Abstract: Ciliary Inclusion Disease: Report of a New PCD Variant
Eric Wartchaw PhD(c)1, Ronald Jaffe MB.BCh2, and Gary Mierau11Children’s Hospital Colorado, Department of Pathology, Anschutz Medical Campus, CO and 2University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Children’s Hospital of UMPC, Department of Pathology, Pittsburgh, PA
2014 ULTRAPATH XVII Feroze Ghadially Award Winner: Alyssa Kraynie, MD
Platform presentation: Malignant mesothelioma not related to asbestos exposure: analytical scanning electron microscopic analysis of 83 cases and comparison with 442 asbestos-related cases.
A Kraynie, T Sporn, E Pavlisko, V Roggli Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
2014 ULTRAPATH XVII Feroze Ghadially Award Winner: John Van Arnam, MD
Platform presentation: Ocular microsporidiosis: Case report with ultrastructural observations.
JS Van Arnam, L Espandar, CS Boehlke, T Cummings Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
2014 ULTRAPATH XVII Feroze Ghadially Award Winner: Jonathan Galeotti, MD
Poster presentation: Endogenous pneumoconiosis: analytical scanning electron microscopic analysis of a case.
J Galeotti, T Sporn, V Roggli Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
2014 ULTRAPATH XVII Feroze Ghadially Award Winner: John Carney, MD
Poster presentation: Case series: Electron microscopic confirmation of hydroxychloroquine cardiotoxicity leading to heart failure and transplantation.
J Carney, EN Pavlisko, LR DiBernardo Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
USCAP – 2013: Binara Assylbekova, MD
Binara Assylbekova1,Shahreen Billah1,Steven Kolodziej1,John L. Dalrymple2,Meenakshi B. Bhattacharjee1 University of Texas at Houston Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine1 University of Texas at Houston Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences2
USCAP – 2013: Jessica Munne, MD
Jessica Munne, MD;Lara Pijuan MD, PhD;Javier Gimeno, MD;Nuria Juanpere, MD;Laura Comerma, MD;Luis Magan;Mecerdes Simon;Sergi Serrano, MD, PhD; and Josep Lloreta, MD, PhD; Department of Pathology, Hospital del Mar, Parc de Salut Mar, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
UltraPath XVI Best Oral Presentation* – 2012: Marianna Nearchou, MRes
Abstract: Proteomic Analysis of Alport Syndrome and Thin Basement Membrane Nephropathy Glomeruli in COL4A3 Transgenic Mice
M. Nearchou, C. Flouri, K. Ioannou, A. Hadjisavvas, I. Zouvani (Nicosia/CY) C. Guzel, C. Stingl, T. Luider (Rotterdam/NL), K. Kyriacou (Nicosia/CY)
UltraPath XVI Best Poster* – 2012: Michaela Schweizer, PhD
for the abstract entitled: Ultrastructural Neuropathology in the Molecular Era Neuropathology of a Novel Knock-In Mouse Model for Mucolipidosis II Alpha/Beta (MLII)
Michaela Schweizer1, Katrin Kollmann2, Markus Damme3, Sandra Markmann2, Willy Morelle6, Reijo Käkelä4, Jean-Claude Michalski6, Steven Walkley5 and Thomas Braulke2
2Department of Biochemistry, Children’s Hospital, University Medical Center Hamburg, Germany, 1ZMNH, University Medical Center Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, 3Department of Biochemistry2, University Göttingen, Germany, 6Unité de Glycobiology Structurale et Fonctionnelle, UMR CNRS/USTL, Lille, France, 4Department of Bioscience, University of Helsinki, Finland, 5Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein Collage of Medicine, New York, USA
*Special awards provided by the Conference Organizing Committee for young investigators who have already completed their training.
USCAP – 2012: M. Kamran Mizra, MD, PhD
for the abstract entitled: Preexisting Membranous Nephropathy in the Cadaveric Donor Kidney: Report of a Case (Ultrastructural Section – USCAP Abstract #2175)
M. Kamran Mirza, Kammi Henriksen, Anthony Chang, Shane M Meehan. The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL
USCAP – 2011: Shree G. Sharma, MD
for the abstract entitled: Light Chain Proximal Tubulopathy: Expanding the Pathologic Spectrum with Deposition of Crystalline-Like Inclusions in Glomeruli and Interstitium in Addition to Proximal Tubules
Shree G Sharma, Steve M Bonsib, Neriman Gokden. University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR; Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA
USCAP Winners – 2010:
Julie A. Jackson, MD
Stephanie Norwood, MD
Shantel Hebert-Magee, MD
UltraPath XV Winners – 2010:
Evan L. Kulbacki, MD
Beate Straub, MD
Nonglin Mel, MD
Mark Laudenschlager, MD
Muhammad Adeel Raza, MD
USCAP Winners – 2009:
John Cho Lee, MD
Jailan M. Osman, MD
Ultrapath XIV Best Poster Presentation – 2008:
Nuria Juanpere-Rodero, M.D.
Ultrapath XIV Best Platform Presentation – 2008:
Elizabeth N. Pavlisko, MD
USCAP Winner – 2008:
Mamta Gupta, MD
UltraPath XIV Outstanding Poster – 2008:
Lara Pijuan-Andujar, MD
Winning Poster – 2007: Carmen D. Sarita-Reyes, MD
Abstract: Mesenchymal-epithelial transformation of adamatinoma of long bones: an immunohistochemical and ultrastructural study
C Sarita-Reyes. Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
Winning Posters – 2006:
Dinesh Rugnath, MD third year pathology resident
for the abstract entitled: Mammary Carcinoma with Neuroendocrine Differentation
D. Rugnath, L.J. Dobbs, Jr., Paul Strausbach, K. Hewan-Lowe
Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina
and for the abstract entitled: Cystic Atrioventricular Node Tumor: Reappraisal of the Controversial Origin of This Tumor
D. Rugnath, R. Mageau, J. Pestaner, J. Finley, P. Strausbauch, K. Hewan-Lowe
Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina
Aruna Dash, MD first year pathology resident
for the abstract entitled: Alveolar Soft Part Sarcoma: Then and Now
Aruna Dash, Paul Strausbauch, Vinita Mathur, Karlene Hewan-Lowe
Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina
Winning Poster – 2005: Shahnila Latif, MD
for the abstract entitled: BK polyoma virus in renal transplants: Role of electron microscopy and immunostains in detecting early infection.
S Latif, R Veeramachaneni, L Jones and GA Herrera. Department of Pathology, Louisiana State University, Shreveport, Louisiana
Winning Poster – 2004: G-Y Yang, MD
Abstract: Pericanalicular micro-myelinosome: A unique ultrastructural feature of HCV hepatitis
G-Y Yang, Sidhu GS, Cassai ND
Winning Poster – 2003: Paula M. Arnell, MD
Abstract: Computer assisted three-dimensional reconstruction of the Birbeck granule.
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston Mass.
Winning Poster – 2002: Xin Gu, MD
Abstract: Light chain crystal deposition as the initial manifestation of plasma cell dyscrasia.
The role of immunoelectron microscopy.
Louisiana State University Health Science Center, Shreveport, LA
No Award was given in 2001
None were found to fulfill the criteria
Winning Poster – 2000: Abdul Hafeez Diwan, MD, PhD
Title: Energy dispersive X-ray microanalysis of crystalline deposits in intervertebral disc tissue.
G-Y Yang, Sidhu GS, Cassai ND
Winning Poster – 1999: Ferrer MD, Lloreta J, Pavesi M, Corominas JM, Serrano D, Mackay B.
Title: Value of ultrastructural nucleolar morphometry in the prediction of recurrence in node negative breast carcinoma.
USCAP abstract #1149
Winning Poster – 1998: Antonescu C, MD
Title: Skeletal and extraskeletal myxoid chondrosarcoma; A clinicopathologic, ultrastructural and molecular comparative study.
C. Antonescu, P. Argani, RA Erlandson, M. Laganyi, AG Huvos
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, N.Y.
Winning Poster – 1997: Tickoo SK, MD
Title: Discriminant value of ultrastructural (EM) features of mitochondria and microvesicles in the differential diagnosis of renal cell tumors with granular cell cytoplasm.
Tickoo SK, Kee MW, Eble JN, Amin MB
Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI and Roudebush VA Medical Center, Indianapolis, IN.
Winning Poster – 1993: Raso DS, MD
Title: Silicone breast implants: pathology
Department of Pathology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
Raso DS, Greene WB; Ultrastruct Pathol 1997 May-Jun;21(3):263-71
Winning Poster – 1992: Joy Young-Ramsaran, MD
Title: Ultrastructural evidence of cell-mediated endothelial cell injury in cardiac transplant-related accelerated arteriosclerosis.
Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland 21205-1145
Young-Ramsaran JO, Hruban RH, Hutchins GM, Phelps TH, Baumgartner WA, Reitz BA, Olson JL.
Ultrastruct Pathol 1993 Mar-Apr;17(2):125-36