Education            

Undergraduate School
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
BS, Biology  1988-1992

Graduate School
University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
PhD, Pathology  1996-2001

Postdoctoral Fellowship
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Molecular Diagnostics  2003-2007

Professional Memberships / Organizations

Member of the Association for Molecular Pathologists (AMP)
Member United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP)
Member American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Research Interests           

Laser microdissection applications in molecular pathology and cancer research

Publications

Zhang X, Ladd AC, Budd W, Ware J, Dragoescu E, Zehner ZE.  MicroRNA-17-3p is a Prostate Tumor Suppressor In Vitro and In Vivo, and is Decreased in High Grade Prostate Tumors Analyzed by Laser Capture Microdissection.  Clinical & Experimental Metastasis.  Accepted for publication in 2009.

Dumur CI, Ladd AC, Wright, HV, Penberthy LT, Wilkinson DS, Powers CN, Garrett CT, DiNardo LJ.  Genes Involved in Chemoradiation Therapy Response in Head and Neck Cancer.  The Laryngoscope.  2009 Jan; 119(1):91-101.

Dumur CI, Sana S, Ladd AC, Ferreira-Gonzalez A, Wilkinson DS, Powers CN, Garrett CT.  Assessing the Impact of Tissue Devitalization Time on Genome-Wide Gene Expression Analysis in Ovarian Tumor Samples.  Diagnostic Molecular Pathology. 2008 Dec; 17(4)200-206.

Dumur CI, Nasim S, Best AM, Archer KJ, Ladd AC, Mas VR, Wilkinson DS, Garrett CT, and Ferreira-Gonzalez A.  Evaluation of Quality Control Parameters for Microarray Gene Expression Analysis. Clinical Chemistry 2004, 50(11):1994-2002.

Traycoff CM, Orazi A, Ladd AC, Rice S, McMahel J, Srour EF.  Proliferation-induced decline of primitive hematopoietic progenitor cell activity is coupled with an increase in apoptosis of ex vivo expanded CD34+ cells.  Exp Hematol  1998 Jan; 26(1): 53-62.

Ladd AC, Pyatt T, Gothot A, Rice S, McMahel J, Traycoff CM, Srour EF.  Orderly process of sequential cytokine stimulation is required for activation and maximal proliferation of primitive human bone marrow CD34+ hematopoietic progenitor cells residing in G0.  Blood.  1997 Jul 15; 90(2): 658-68.

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