The Department mourns the loss of our beloved colleague, mentor, and friend Dr. Michael Cancro.
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The Department is currently hiring! Faculty positions are available in Surgical Pathology, Hematopathology, Digital Pathology, Molecular Genetic Pathology, and Neuropathology/Neurodegeneration.
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The Department mourns the loss of our esteemed colleague, mentor, and friend Virginia LiVolsi, MD, an icon in the field of endocrine pathology.
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Wednesday, May 8, 2024, 8:00am - 4:15pm, Biomedical Research Building (BRB II/III) - Glen Gaulton Auditorium. Please join us for this year's Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Research Day! Faculty, staff and trainees will come together to showcase the exciting research being conducted at Penn.
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Gerard D. Schellenberg, PhD, Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Director of the Penn Neurodegeneration Genomics Center, is the recipient of the 2023 BrightFocus Scientific Impact Award for his work to further scientific understanding of the connection between genomics and Alzheimer’s disease.
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Penn Path & Lab Professor Dr. Malek Kamoun and Dr. Ryan Urbanowicz of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center are developing machine learning strategies to improve matching in kidney transplants and decrease the risk of recipient graft failure. This summer, they received help from three Penn students through the Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program.
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Dr. Yanxiang Deng has been named the 2023 Blavatnik Regional Awards Laureate in Life Sciences for his work on novel “spatial-omics” tools that provide unique insight into how cells behave relative to their location in a complex tissue.
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Enrique Olguín-Martínez, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the Henao-Mejia lab studying how diet-induced inflammation promotes childhood obesity, has been named a 2023 Pew Latin American Fellow in the Biomedical Sciences. He will be mentored by an alum of the Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences - Dr. Jorge Henao-Mejia.
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Drs. Adam Bagg, Zubair Baloch, David Elder, Franz Fogt, Virginia LiVolsi, Xiaowei (George) Xu, and Gordon Yu are among the top pathologists in the region.
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Dr. Netto's appointment, effective August 1, 2023, marks the next phase of leadership for Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Penn Medicine, which previously excelled under the leadership of David B. Roth, MD, PhD, and, most recently, under the strong and capable stewardship of interim chair Kathleen T. Montone, MD.
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Stowell-Orbison Awards for PGY-3 resident Dr. Stephanie Hurwitz and CAPA Teaching Award for Dr. Zhaohai Yang.
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We welcome nine new pathology residents with a variety of academic career goals in AP/CP, AP/NP, and CP only.
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Your gift will help fund a commissioned portrait of them to honor their groundbreaking discoveries and advances in neurodegenerative disease research. Donate here
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Academy recognizes Penn Medicine clinicians who exemplify the highest standards of clinical excellence, humanism and professionalism.
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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.
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Award from the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) recognizes his groundbreaking work in developing the first gene-edited cell therapy for cancer.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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