Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Update on COVID-19 Testing

Below is the most recent announcement regarding COVID-19 from the Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine.
An archived list of past announcements can be found here. 

Update from the Chair: Commitment in Our Community

Dear Members of the Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Community,

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Leadership Transition in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

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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Faculty in the News Fall 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.

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Poster Session Winners from PLM Research Day

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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Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Research Day 2022

Tuesday, October 25, 2022, 8 AM to 3 PM, 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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Symposium on Diagnostic and Innovation Alliances at Penn Medicine

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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Society for Pediatric Pathology Award for PGY-2 Resident Dr. Emily Pai

Selected as one of three recipients of the 2022 Resident Recruitment Award.

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Drs. Kyle Rodino and Jalal Jalaly Selected as Two of ASCP’s 40 Under Forty

The American Society for Clinical Pathology award honors the top 40 pathologists, residents, and laboratory professionals under the age of forty who are making significant contributions to the profession.

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Dr. Danielle Fortuna New Clinical Director of Gross Lab Education and Operations

New role to work with the leadership team to expand and standardize education of Pathologists' Assistants, Pathology Technologists, and trainees across the three gross labs.

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Dr. Li-San Wang Elected to 2022 Penn Fellows Program

Penn Fellows Program provides leadership development to select Penn mid-career faculty members across the university.

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2022 Lady Barbara Colyton Award for Autoimmune Research for Dr. Taku Kambayashi

Award recognizes outstanding research in the field of autoimmune diseases.

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2022 Pathology "Top Docs" in Philadelphia Magazine

Drs. Adam Bagg, Zubair Baloch, David Elder, Franz Fogt, Virginia LiVolsi, and Xiaowei (George) Xu are among the the eight top pathologists in the region.

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NIA Genetics of Alzheimer’s Disease Data Storage Site Receives $23.9 Million Renewal Grant

Genetics data repository set up by the National Institute of Aging (NIA) to facilitate access by qualified investigators to genotypic data for Alzheimer’s disease (AD).

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Kambayashi Lab Wins "STAT Madness" Competition

Science study of "oily rodents" injected with a signaling protein to sweat out fat through the skin wins the annual "STAT Madness" bracket-style biomedical research competition.

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Dr. Virginia LiVolsi Receives the 2022 President’s Award of the Arthur Purdy Stout Society of Surgical Pathologists

Annual APSS President's Award recognizes her substantial contributions and distinguished service to the field of surgical pathology.

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New Pathology Residents for 2022-23

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

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Faryabi Lab Publishes in Molecular Cell

Paper identifies genome refolding that drives epigenetic adaptation and could also drive resistance to targeted therapy in T cell leukemia.

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Professor John Q. Trojanowski, MD, PhD (1946-2022)

The Department mourns the loss of our esteemed colleague, mentor, and friend John Trojanowski, MD, PhD, one of the foremost pioneers in the field of neuroscience, neuropathology and neurodegenerative diseases.

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Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science for Integrated Diagnostics Established

Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science for Integrated Diagnostics (AI2D) is a highly collaborative effort across School of Medicine Departments with focus on AI-driven integrated diagnostics, and was seeded by the emerging Integrated Diagnostics Program co-led by the Department of Radiology and the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine.

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