Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology News Search

The pioneering molecular biologist Sydney Brenner famously said that scientific progress depends on new techniques, new discoveries, and new ideas, “probably in that order.”  A recent...

JEFFREY KUBIAK, MD, PHD (CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY)Dr. Kubiak has joined our faculty as an assistant professor.  After earning his MD and PhD, Kubiak completed a clinical pathology...

RYAN MARTINEZ, MD, PHD (MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY)Dr. Ryan Martinez joined LMP as an instructor effective July 31.  Martinez earned an MD degree and a PhD degree (immunology and...

LMP professor Deborah Powell is among 20 inaugural members of the Association of Pathology Chairs (APC) Academy of Distinguished Pathology Educators.  The new APC Academy will recognize and...

LMP professor Anthony Killeen has been elected to serve on the board of directors of the American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) as president-elect starting in August this year. ...

LMP faculty who have been promoted effective July 1, 2023.  Here are their new titles. Amy saenger, Professor MOLLY KLEIN, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ALESSIO GIUBELLINO...

The Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology announces the appointment of Shannon Sullivan to our faculty as an assistant professor. Sullivan comes to LMP from the U of M Department of...

Nearly 20 million people worldwide die from heart disease every year, 700,000 of them Americans.  A century ago, the American Heart Association (AHA) issued its first guidance document for...

The Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology announces the appointment of professors Mahmoud Khalifa as Vice Chair of Anatomic Pathology and Bharat Thyagarajan as Vice Chair of Translational...

LMP announces the appointment of Sithara Vivek to our faculty as an assistant professor effective May 15. Vivek earned a PhD in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology from the University of...

David Cartwright, MD, has joined the LMP faculty as an assistant professor. He comes to LMP from Minnesota Urology, where he was pathologist and co-lab director. Cartwright earned an MD degree...

Match Day is the culmination of the four years of medical school when students are matched with the residency program they will begin after graduation. We are pleased to introduce our 2023-...

In an ideal healthcare world, the right drug would be used at the right dosage by the right patient at the right time.  That’s the goal of the fast-growing field of pharmacogenomics, or PGx,...

One of the runners-up in Science magazine’s “2022 Breakthrough of the Year” involved Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), a human herpes virus known to cause infectious mononucleosis and a variety of...

Based on the 2022 pathology rankings by the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research (BRIMR), the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology continues its National Institutes of Health (NIH)...

Anna Prizment joins our faculty as an associate professor effective March 1. She comes to LMP from the Department of Medicine's Division of Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation. Prizment...

Professor Kristin Hogquist, LMP Vice Chair for Research, has been named Associate Dean for Foundational Science and Gender Equity in the Medical School’s Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (...

The Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology announces the appointment of Diana Oramas-Mogrovejo to our faculty as an assistant professor effective December 19. She comes to us from the...

LMP’s Advanced Research and Diagnostic Laboratory (ARDL) was the Central Biochemistry Laboratory for the Glycemic Reduction Approaches in Diabetes:  A Comparative Effectiveness Study (GRADE...

LMP announces the appointment of Aastha Chauhan to our faculty as an assistant professor effective September 30. Chauhan received an MBBS from Goa Medical College, India, and a MD Pathology from...