A personalized immunotherapy developed at Penn Medicine has been awarded the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Breakthrough Therapy designation for the treatment of relapsed and refractory adult and pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).
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The Board of Directors of the American Society for Clinical Pathology has selected Virginia A. LiVolsi, MD to be the recipient of the 2014 ASCP H. P. Smith Award for Distinguished Pathology Educator.
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ASCP Mastership designation serves to honor those distinguished Society members who have made significant contributions, not only to the field of pathology and laboratory medicine but also to ASCP.
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Department researchers are part of a five-university collaboration receiving a four-year grant from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) to identify rare genetic variants that may either protect against or contribute to Alzheimer’s disease risk.
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Drs. John Q. Trojanowski and Virginia M.-Y. Lee are co-recipients of the 2014 J. Allyn Taylor International Prize in Medicine for outstanding contributions made in the area of the molecular basis of neurological disorders.
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An overview of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and its Residency Programs at Penn.
The newly inaugurated award honors the top 40 pathologists, residents, and laboratory professionals under 40 who are making significant contributions to the profession and who represent the achievements and qualities important to the pathology and laboratory sciences fields.
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James M. Wilson, MD, PhD, professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, is this year's co-recipient of the Jane M. Glick Graduate Student Teaching Award for his longstanding, exemplary service to the core mission of education, mentoring, and training the next generation of biomedical scientists in the spirit of scientist-educator Jane Glick, in whose remembrance the award was established.
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Dr. Arnold J. Rawson, emeritus professor of pathology and former chair in the Perelman School of Medicine, died at his home in Sarasota, Florida, on January 28, 2014 at age 99. Born in 1914, he received his BS degree from Harvard University and his MD degree from Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons and completed his residency in pathology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
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A generous $3.25 million gift, a donation from the nonprofit organization Friedreich's Ataxia Research Alliance (FARA) in partnership with the Hamilton and Finneran families, has created the new Penn Medicine/CHOP Friedreich’s Ataxia Center of Excellence. The FA Center of Excellence will be co-directed by David Lynch, MD, PhD, FA program director at CHOP, and Robert B. Wilson, MD, PhD, professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine.
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