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Biography:
Dr. Louisa Balazs received her M.D. degree from
University Medical School in Pecs, Hungary. She completed her first
residency training program in anatomic pathology at the same institution under
the mentorship of Prof. Gabor Kelenyi. The topic of her Ph.D. thesis
"The immunohistology of Hodgkin's disease" was based on her research
done at the Hungarian National Malignant Lymphoma Reference Center and the
European Malignant Lymphoma Reference Center with the Department of Pathology of
the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, under the supervision of Profs.
J.A.M. van Unnick and Gabor Kelenyi.
In 1984, she became a junior faculty and served
as Director of the Immunohistology Laboratory of the Hungarian National
Malignant Lymphoma Reference Center at the University Medical School of Pecs.
Subsequently, she transferred as a faculty member to the Department of Pathology
at the Szentgyorgyi Medical School in Szeged. After moving to the US, she
worked as a scientist at the Department of Immunology of ICN Pharmaceuticals,
Inc., on pharmacological enhancement of the host anti-tumor immune
response. She joined the Department of Psychobiology with the University
of California Irvine; meanwhile she obtained her US licensure. She
completed a second residency in anatomic pathology at the University of
Tennessee Memphis under the directorship of Dr. Thomas Chesney. For her
fellowship in Molecular Pathology, she joined the Department of Pathology at St.
Jude Children's Research Hospital under the supervision of Drs. James Downing
and Costan Berrard.
Dr. Balazs joined the faculty of the Department
of Pathology of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in 1996.
She became Director of the Autopsy Service in 2001 and was appointed Division
Head for Anatomic Pathology in 2002 and promoted to the rank of associate
professor. Dr. Balazs is heavily involved in intra- and interdepartmental
training of residents and is a recipient of an Excellence in Teaching
Award. She represents her department at the UT Tumor Board Conferences and
acts as the departmental Compliance Officer. She also serves as Medical
Director of LabCorp of Northern Mississippi.
Dr. Balazs is involved in extensive
collaborations with the crosses several departments at UTHSC and has published
over 50 papers.
Research Interests:
Dr. Balazs's current research interests include
surgical and molecular pathology of tumors, tumor immunohistochemistry and
transgenic animal models of cancer.
Selected Publications:
Deng, W., Balazs, L., Wang, D., Van Middlesworth,
L., Johnson, L.R., Tigyi, G.: Lysophosphatidic acid protects and rescues
intestinal epithelial cells from radiation- and chemotherapy-induced
apoptosis. Gastroenterology, 2002 July; 123(1):206-216.
Deng, W., Balazs, L., Wang, D., Van Middlesworth,
L., Johnson, L.R., Tigyi, G.: Lysophosphatidic acid protects and rescues
intestinal epithelial cells from radiation- and chemotherapy-induced
apoptosis. Poster presentation on "Annual Meeting of the American
Gastroenterology Society", San Francisco, June 5-8, 2002.
Tigyi, G., Kazuaki Yokoyama, Yunming Yue, Balazs,
L., Baker, D., Pilquil, C., Brindley, D.: Mice with transgenic over-expression
of lipid phosphate phosatase-1 display reproductive and hair growth deficits
without alteration of lysophosphatidate level and signalaing. FASEB J. -
in press
Chunxiang Zhang, Baker, D., Johnson, L., Balazs,
L., McIntyre, T., Young Xu, Prestwich, G. and Tigyi, G.: Lysophosphatidic acid
induced neointima formation - The role of PPAR. Abstract, FASEB J. - in
press
Junming Yue, Kazuaki Yokoyama, Balazs, L.,
Baker, D., Pilquil, C., Brindley, D. and Tigyi, G.: Mice with transgenic
over-expression of lipid phosphate phosatase-1 display reproductive and hair
growth deficits without alteration in circulating lysophosphatidate level.
FASEB Journal, regular article, submitted for publication
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