Leah J. Hennings, DVM
Research Assistant Professor of Pathology
Medical Degree
Veterinary Medicine, Pullman, WA
Residencies
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Anatomic Pathology
Research Interests
Comparative pathology and tumor biology
E-mail
Phone
lhennings@uams.edu
501-526-7624
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Research Overview:
Dr. Hennings is a native of Northeast Arkansas. She received her DVM from Washington State University in 1999, and completed residency training in Veterinary Anatomic Pathology at the University of Tennessee in 2002. After a short stint as staff pathologist for Charles River Laboratories at the National Center for Toxicological Research (Jefferson, AR), she came to UAMS where she now serves as a Research Assistant Professor and Director of the Experimental Pathology Core Laboratory. She has extensive funded collaborations in the fields of cancer immunology, metabolism and cancer, and experimental cancer therapeutics.
Selected Publications:
Monzavi-Karbassi, BJ,
Hennings, LJ, Artaud, C, Liu,
T, Jousheghany, F, Pashov, A, Murali, R, Hutchins, LF, and
Kieber-Emmons, T,
Preclinical studies of carbohydrate mimetic vaccines for breast cancer
and melanoma, Vaccine, 2007; 25: 3022-3031.
Gal Shafirstein,
Leah Hennings, Yihong
Kaufmann, Petr Novak, Eduardo G. Moros, Scott Ferguson, Eric Seigel,
Suzanne Klimberg, Milton Waner, Paul Spring,
Conductive Interstitial Thermal Therapy
(CITT) Device Evaluation in VX2 Rabbit Model,
Technology in Cancer Research and Treatment, 2007;
6: 235-246.
Behjatolah Monzavi-Karbassi, Tracy L, Whitehead, Fariba Jousheghany, Cecile Artaud,
Leah Hennings, Saeid Shaaf, Aubrey Slaughter, Soheila Korourian, Thomas Kelly, Magdalena Blaszczyk-Thurin, Thomas Kieber-Emmons,Deficiency in surface expression of E-Selectin ligand promotes lung colonization in a mouse model of breast cancer, International Journal of Cancer, (10)117:398-408, Nov 2005.
Behjatolah Monzavi-Karbassi, Cecile Artaud, Fariba Jousheghany, Leah Hennings, Jaime Carcel-Trullols, Saeid Shaaf, Soheila Korourian, Thomas Kieber-Emmons, Reduction of spontaneous metastases through induction of carbohydrate cross-reactive apoptotic antibodies, Journal of Immunology, 174:7057-7065, 2005.
Ziegler, CC, Rainwater, Leah Hennings, Whelan, J, and McEntee, M, Dietary Resveratrol does not affect intestinal tumorigenesis in APC min/+ mice, Journal of Nutrition, 134:5-10, 2004.
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