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Virgilius Cornea, MD
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virgilius.cornea@uky.edu
MS 139
Position(s): 
Associate Professor
Affiliation(s): 
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Interests / Specialties: 
Anatomical & Clinical Pathology
Bio / Education: 

MD - Timisoara University (1996)
AP/CP Residency - SUNY Downstate Medical Center (2006)
AP Fellowship - SUNY Downstate Medical Center (2007)
Surgical Pathology Fellowship - Mount Sinai School of Medicine (2008)
Kidney and Transplant Pathology Fellowship - University of Pittsburgh (2010)

Selected Publications: 

Representative Publications & Other Scholarly Work:

Valery Vilchez M.D., Lilia Turcios Ph.D., D. Allan Butterfield Ph.D., Mihail I. Mitov Ph.D., Cristin L. Coquillard B.S., J. Anthony Brandon Ph.D., Virgilius Cornea M.D., Roberto Gedaly M.D., Francesc Marti Ph.D., Evidence of the immunomodulatory role of dual PI3K/mTOR inhibitors in transplantation: an experimental study in mice, Transplant International, 2017 October; 30(10):1061-1074.

Turcios L., Chacon E., Garcia C., Eman P., Cornea V., Jiang J., Spear B., Liu C., Watt DS., Marti F., Gedaly R., Autophagic flux modulation by Wnt/β-catenin pathway inhibition in hepatocellular carcinoma, PLoS One. 2019 Feb 22;14(2):e0212538. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0212538. eCollection 2019.

El-Husseini A., Hassan W., Yaseen M., Suleiman B., Saleh S., Malik O., Ashqar H., Maibam A., Mei X., Castellanos A.L., Cornea V., Gedaly R., Waid T., Impact of human leukocyte antigen and calculated panel reactive antibody on BK viremia in kidney transplant recipients: A single-center experience and literature review, Transpl Infect Dis. 2019 Mar 13:e13071. doi: 10.1111/tid.13071

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