Kim Boekelheide, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor of Pathology

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Dept. Pathology and Lab Medicine
Brown University, Box G-B587
Providence, RI 02912

Medical education/Graduate education:

Ph.D. Duke University, (1980, Pathology)
M.D. Duke University, (1980)

Residency:

Duke University, 1980-1984

Board certification:

Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, 1984

Research interests:

The work in my laboratory concerns the mechanisms of testicular injury induced by toxic industrial and environmental compounds, and mechanisms of post-injury recovery.

Current approved research grants:

R01 ES05033 (previously numbered R01 OH02191) "Environmental/Industrial Toxicants and Testicular Injury”

R01 ES/HD11632 “Cell Interactions in Male Reproductive Phthalate Injury”

P20 RR16457 “Enhancement of Biomedical Research in Rhode Island”

Sertoli Technologies, Inc. “Evaluation of Sertoli Cell Transplants in Nonhuman Primates”

Wayland Collegium Superfund Study Group

Most recent significant publications:

Embree-Ku, M.E., Boekelheide, K. (2002). The absence of p53 and FasL has sexually dimorphic effects on both development and reproduction. Exp. Biol. Med. 227, 545-553.

Embree-Ku, M.E., Boekelheide, K. (2002). The absence of FasL enhances the development of tumors in p53+/- mice. Toxicol. Pathol. 30, 705-713.

Fleming, S.L., Shank, P.R., Boekelheide, K. (2003). g-Tubulin overexpression in Sertoli cells in vivo. I. Localization to sites of spermatid head attachment and alterations in Sertoli cell microtubule distribution. Biol. Reprod., in press.