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LMP is pleased to introduce our 2025-2026 PGY-1 resident class (l-r in photo above):
Ala’ Abu-Dayeh, MD (University of Jordan Faculty of Medicine) – AP/CPCharles Ehster, DO (Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine) – AP/CPNathan Law, MD (Florida State University College of Medicine...
Pathology, Education

Amy Skubitz on new ovarian cancer research
For many people diagnosed with ovarian cancer, chemotherapy is a standard treatment. However, despite an initial response, most patients will experience a relapse within five years, and many will...
Pathology, Faculty, Faculty Accomplishments

LMP welcomes Sherri Longobardi, PhD
LMP welcomes Sherri Longobardi, PhD as an assistant professor effective January 31. She will join the Immunology and Histocompatibility Laboratory.Longobardi comes to us from Northwestern University...
Pathology, Faculty

LMP remembers Richard Brunning
The Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology is remembering Richard D. Brunning, who headed the department’s Hematopathology Division for 33 years. Brunning passed away in his Minnetonka home...
Pathology, Faculty

Hematopathology Builds on 60 Years of Bone Marrow Transplantations
It was more than half a century ago that University pediatrician and pathologist Robert Good and his clinical team performed the world’s first successful bone marrow transplant. The University has...
Pathology, Faculty

Study finds new blood test predicts prognosis for advanced prostate cancer patients
MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL (12/11/2024) — Published in Nature Communications, a new study led by the University of Minnesota Medical School and Duke University found that a DNA...
Pathology, Faculty, Faculty Accomplishments

For medical students, the future of pathology education is unfolding now
“Like a steam locomotive roaring down the tracks, the events of 2020 brought into clear focus the concept of change,” wrote Duke University pathologist Sarah Bean in “Change in Medical Education: the...
Pathology, Education, Faculty

Karger receives an award at CAP24
LMP professor Amy Karger was one of three pathologists to win the 2024 CAP Laboratory Improvement Programs Service Award at CAP24, the annual meeting of the College of American Pathologists held this...
Pathology, Faculty

Samreen Fathima, MD, joins LMP in hematopathology
Samreen Fathima, MD joined LMP as an assistant professor and hematopathologist effective September 24.Fathima received an MBBS from the Deccan College of Medical Sciences in Hyderabad, India,...
Pathology, Faculty

Bill Nye the Science Guy visits Orr lab to champion ataxia research
The legendary science communicator Bill Nye the Science Guy visited LMP professor Harry Orr's laboratory October 4th in his ongoing effort to champion ataxia research.As a writer for the health and...
Pathology, Faculty

Koorosh Shahpasand, PhD, joins LMP in neuroscience
Koorosh Shahpasand, PhD, joined LMP as an assistant professor effective October 14.Shahpasand comes to us from the Royan Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Technology in Tehran, Iran, where he was...
Pathology, Faculty

Spatial omics makes its debut in pathology
Last century, often termed the “Century of Physics,” Albert Einstein showed that space and time are inextricably entwined. The space-time continuum has been termed the “fabric of our...
Pathology

Ying-Hsia Chu, MD, joins LMP in molecular diagnostics
Ying-Hsia Chu, MD, joined our faculty as an assistant professor effective September 23.Chu received an MD from National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, and completed...
Pathology, Faculty

Linden is named Brunning Professor
Dean Tolar has appointed LMP professor Michael Linden to the Brunning Professorship named after hematopathologist Richard D. Brunning who retired in 1998 after 33 years as an LMP faculty member....
Pathology, Faculty, Faculty Accomplishments

Killeen gives talk at Chinese conference on "Big Data in Laboratory Medicine"
LMP professor Anthony Killeen gave a talk entitled "Big Data in Laboratory Medicine" at the 18th National Congress of Laboratory Medicine (NCLM) in Hangzhou, China. The conference was held...
Pathology, Faculty, Faculty Accomplishments

LMP faculty are among the MCC Spring 2024 internal grant awardees
LMP faculty are included among the Masonic Cancer Center (MCC) Spring 2024 internal grant awardees. They are:American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grants"Metal...
Pathology, Faculty, Faculty Accomplishments

Modeling Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias takes a major step forward
University of Minnesota researchers working with colleagues in the MODEL-AD Consortium and the Jackson Laboratory have taken a major step toward moving the genetics of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and...
Pathology, Faculty, Leadership

Orr named Regents Professor
LMP professor Harry Orr has been named Regents Professor, the highest honor the University bestows on its faculty. The honor follows his being elected to the University of Minnesota...
Pathology, Faculty, Leadership, Faculty Accomplishments