Philadelphia Inquirer Article Showcases PPMC Blood Bank in Feature on Gun Violence

August 13, 2019

Michael Atweh, Director of Operations for Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, oversees a nearly 20-person team that operates the blood bank.

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New Assay for the Quantification of Protein Biomarkers Using Only a Smartphone Camera

August 01, 2019

Proof of principle for rapid and ultra-sensitive biomarker measurement in point‐of‐care (POC) assay.

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Dr. Daniel Herman Receives Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Clinical Scientist Development Award

July 24, 2019

The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF) has announced that Daniel S. Herman, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, is one of the sixteen recipients of the 2019 Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Clinical Scientist Development Award (CSDA).

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New Protocol for Clinical Proteomics

June 10, 2019

A team from Penn and the commercial lab ProtiFi presented an optimized workflow using formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded (FPPE) tissue archives.

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Nature Medicine Study by Department Authors Receives 2019 Clinical Research Achievement Award

April 30, 2019

Study on determinants of response and resistance to CD19 chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy of chronic lymphocytic leukemia recognized as one of ten most outstanding clinical research accomplishments in the United States.

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Analysis of the Evolution of CAR T-cell Immunotherapy through Patenting Activity

April 16, 2019

Nature Biotechnology review of emerging technology of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell immunotherapy shows six of the top 20 global CAR-T inventors are from Penn.

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Dr. Kojo Elenitoba-Johnson Receives William L. Gerald Award from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

April 04, 2019

Award honors innovative research and major contributions to tumor pathology.

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Lancaster General Hospital Laboratory Selected as 2019 Lab of the Year

March 24, 2019

The Medical Laboratory Observer Editorial Advisory Board has selected Penn Medicine's LGH Laboratory as the 2019 Lab of the Year.

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USCAP Awards for Residents

March 22, 2019

Xiaoming Zhang, MD, and Nya Nelson, MD, PhD, honored by International Association of Chinese Pathologists and Society of Pediatric Pathology respectively.

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New Pathology Residents for 2019-20

March 15, 2019

The Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine had a very successful recruitment season for the 2019-2020 PGY1 residency class, matching nine residents with a variety of academic career goals for training in AP/CP, AP/NP and CP.

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