University of Pennsylvania | Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Serotonin reduction in post-acute sequelae of viral infection

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New Pathology Residents for 2023-24

March 17, 2023

We welcome nine new pathology residents with a variety of academic career goals in AP/CP, AP/NP, and CP only.

Please Consider Donating to the Virginia M.-Y. Lee and John Q. Trojanowski Portrait Fund

March 10, 2023

Your gift will help fund a commissioned portrait of them to honor their groundbreaking discoveries and advances in neurodegenerative disease research. Donate here

Dr. Zubair Baloch Elected to 2022 Penn Medicine Academy of Master Clinicians

February 16, 2023

Academy recognizes Penn Medicine clinicians who exemplify the highest standards of clinical excellence, humanism and professionalism.

Faculty and Staff in the News Winter 2022-23

February 10, 2023

Featuring postdoctoral fellow Dr. Mayassa Bou-Dargham, a $25 million gift for a Center for Epilepsy and Neurodevelopmental Disorders, the first cohort of the AABB's certified Advanced Biotherapies Professional (CABP) credential, research grants for Drs. Saba Ghassemi and Christopher Sande, a podcast on laboratory preparedness for the current monkeypox outbreak by Dr. Kyle Rodino, and Dr. Roseann Wu, who joins the American Board of Pathology’s Test Development and Advisory Committee for Cytopathology.

Dr. Carl June Honored with Lifetime Achievement Award from the AACR

February 09, 2023

Award from the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) recognizes his groundbreaking work in developing the first gene-edited cell therapy for cancer.

Leadership Transition in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

November 15, 2022

David Roth, MD, PhD, will be stepping down as Chair of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine in January 2023. Kathleen Montone, MD, has agreed to serve as interim Chair.

Faculty in the News Fall 2022

November 14, 2022

Milestones and accolades: Drs. Zubair Baloch American Society of Cytopathology President's Award; Malay Haldar Michael S. Brown New Investigator Research Award; Carl June Keio Medical Science Prize Laureate; Virginia Lee Clarivate Citation Laureate; Virginia LiVolsi Endocrine Pathology Society's Lifetime Achievement Award; Donald L. Siegel Inductee of the National Blood Foundation (NBF) Hall of Fame; Bruce Levine Precision Medicine World Conference 2023 Luminary Award.

Poster Session Winners from PLM Research Day

October 26, 2022

The two winners from the trainee poster session were Charlotte Kearns (Basic Science and Computational Research) and Ashley Ginda (Clinical Translational Research), both from the lab of Dr. Una O'Doherty.

Symposium on Diagnostic and Innovation Alliances at Penn Medicine

September 12, 2022

Video of the livestream from the Symposium on Diagnostic and Innovation Alliances is now available here. Keynote address by Anant Madabhushi, PhD, FAIMBE, FIEEE, FNAI: "Integrated Diagnostics: Artificial Intelligence at the Convergence of Disease Scales."