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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Faculty positions are open in bioinformatics, blood banking and transfusion medicine, cellular immunotherapy, clinical chemistry, clinical microbiology, computational dendritic cell biology and innate immunity, computational multi-omics diagnostics, EHR data analysis and phenotyping, epigenetics, genomic diagnostics, immunometabolism and tumor immunity, machine learning and image analysis, neurodegenerative disease research, pathology informatics, pediatric dermatopathology, precision and computational diagnostics, RNA computational biology, surgical pathology, Division Director of Laboratory Medicine, and Chief of Pathology.
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March 16, 2020 Urgent Notice - Blood Utilization
Dear Faculty and Staff,
Please see below for a notification from the Director of Transfusion Medicine and the attached letter from the American Red Cross.
More updates later on other issues,
David Roth
Chair, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
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June 17 Update: From the Chair
We must look for ways how we can support communities of color; resumption of research efforts and directives on any work-related travel.
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University Laboratory Animal Resources (ULAR) Vivarial Scheduling Platform launched in record time to facilitate Phase 1 research resumption of services.
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Personalized Medicine Coalition award recognizes new era in precision medicine with treatments characterized by ability to alter molecular characteristics of patients’ own cells.
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Update May 29: Guidelines for the safe return to campus and COVID-19-related research by Department faculty members.
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Update May 20: Personal travels and vacations, extension of probationary period for tenure, CE, and research tracks, CEO townhall and seminar on healthcare innovation during COVID-19.
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Update May 14: Strategies to safeguard patients and staff, phased research resumption plan, resources around online learning, and a visit from Gritty!
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Dr. Bierl will become the 11th Director of the Division of Laboratory Medicine and the William Pepper Laboratory of Clinical Medicine on July 1, 2020.
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Update May 11: Clinical research, PSOM research activities and a gradual return to work, and the teams who brought our current antibody test online in a rapid manner!
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Update May 7: "One of the nicest things to come out of our new situation is that I get a chance to interact with many of our colleagues from the Department in new ways."
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Update May 4: COVID-19 Clinical Testing Oversight Committee, FAQs around patient resurgence, and residents' efforts to produce viral transport media (VTM) to create collection kits.
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Update April 29: Limitations of commercial antibody tests, new scientific articles, a new update frequency, and a note of gratitude.
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Update April 28: Updated SARS-COV-2 test ordering information, new FAQs for SARS-CoV-2 Molecular Testing, and Dr. Carl June elected to National Academy of Sciences.
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Update April 27: Resumption of research activities, SEPTA changes, reports on commercial antibody tests, and an Air Force flyover.
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In recognition of his distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
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Update April 24: The end of Lab Week this year, regional health system responses, and free Systematic Review software for COVID-19 research.
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Update April 23: Resilience that creates real communities, more debates around serological testing, and some local news articles worth your while.
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Update April 22: New research project on RNA FISH to visualize SARS-CoV-2 for diagnostics and CRISPR screening for therapeutics, a drone light show, and grandmas' tips on getting through lockdown.
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