The American Pancreatic Association 51st Annual Meeting: The Vay Liang and Frisca Go Award for Lifetime Achievement and the Distinguished Service Award

TY - JOUR

T1 - The American Pancreatic Association 51st Annual Meeting

T2 - The Vay Liang and Frisca Go Award for Lifetime Achievement and the Distinguished Service Award

AU - Saluja, Ashok K.

AU - Carney, Jennifer B.

AU - Willhite, Jill

AU - Go, Vay Liang W.

N1 - Funding Information: Other key highlights included the presentations of the Vay Liang and Frisca Go Lifetime Achievement Award, the APA Distinguished Service Award, and the various best abstract awards sponsored by the Hirshberg Foundation, Kenner Family Research Fund, and National Pancreas Foundation. In addition, the APA and APA Foundation jointly sponsored grants to young investigators in pancreatitis. Funding Information: This year's meeting was preceded by a virtual summit sponsored by the Kenner Family Research Fund on AI and the early detection of pancreatic cancer held on October 19 and 20. More than 150 national and international experts and participants were invited to discuss AI and machine learning as tools for risk stratification in the early detection of pancreatic cancer. The summit explored current efforts in the field, identified needs and gaps, and developed a conceptual framework for using AI and machine learning. The proceedings will be available soon at the Kenner Family Research Fund Web site. Funding Information: Dr Anna Gukovskaya, PhD, is a Professor-in-Residence in the Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at the UCLA, and Senior Research Career Scientist, Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Research. She is Director of the Pancreatic Research Group at UCLA/VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System. She graduated from Saratov University in Russia (former Soviet Union) with a BSci in chemical physics, got her PhD degree in biochemistry at Moscow University, and then doctor of science degree in cell biology at the Institute of Cytology, USSR Academy of Sciences. She worked for many years at the Institute of Biological Physics, USSR Academy of Sciences (in Pushchino, near Moscow) on biophysical properties of nucleic acids and, later, on signaling mechanisms of T-cell activation. In 1991, she had her first encounter with the West during a Visiting Professor sojourn at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada (in the laboratory of Dr Sergio Grinstein). In 1992, she emigrated to the United States and started working with Dr Stephen Pandol on exocrine pancreas cell biology and pathophysiology. Since 1994, her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and VA, and the focus of her group, first at University of California, San Diego and then UCLA, has been on molecular and cellular mechanisms of pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer. Her research was instrumental in revealing (i) how injured acinar cells trigger the inflammatory response of pancreatitis; (ii) the regulation of trypsinogen activation by infiltrating immune cells; (iii) modalities of parenchymal cell death, such as apoptosis, in pancreatitis; and, more recently, (iv) how the dysfunction of acinar cell organellar network (particularly mitochondrial and lysosomal/autophagy pathways) initiates and drives pancreatitis. She has published 157 research papers, reviews, and book chapters, and mentored 7 PhD students and more than 70 MD and PhD postdoctoral fellows, trainees, and students from both the United States and all over the world.

PY - 2021

Y1 - 2021

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U2 - 10.1097/MPA.0000000000001946

DO - 10.1097/MPA.0000000000001946

M3 - Editorial

C2 - 35041329

AN - SCOPUS:85123654476

VL - 50

SP - 1331

EP - 1333

JO - Pancreas

JF - Pancreas

SN - 0885-3177

IS - 10

ER -