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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...

LMP announces the appointment of Yanli Ding to our faculty as an associate professor effective September 19. Ding received an MD from Norman Bethune University of Medical Sciences, China and a PhD...

Shannon Welter, MD has joined LMP as a community pathologist. She will be practicing at M Health Fairview Southdale Hospital. Welter received an MD from the Uniformed Services University. She...

Scott Gilles, MD has joined LMP as a community pathologist and Cade Arries, MD, has joined LMP as a hematopathologist. Gilles received an MD from the University of Minnesota Medical School. He...

The Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology announces the appointment of Michael Greenwood to our faculty as an assistant professor effective July 11.Greenwood is an anatomic and clinical...

U.S. surgeons performed record-breaking 41,354 organ transplants in 2021, a record-breaking 24,354 of them kidney transplants.  Changes to kidney allocation policy that aimed to increase organ...

LMP faculty Michael Linden and Nathan Pankratz have been promoted effective July 1, 2022.  Here are their new titles. Michael Linden, Professor Nathan Pankratz, Professor

The Kavli Foundation and the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research announced June 1 that LMP professor Harry T. Orr is one of four winners of the 2022 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience. Named after...

LMP professor Myron Gross knew he wanted to be a scientist early in life.  “I was always interested in the quantitation of things, in measurements,” he said in an interview. ...

KARE11:  U of M professor elected to National Academy of Sciences, the U.S.' highest honor in the field LMP professor and Vice Chair for Research Kristin Hogquist has been elected to the...

The renowned actor Sidney Poitier died of heart failure in January at age 94.  He lived for nearly three decades following treatment for prostate cancer at age 66.  Based on modeling...

Women’s History Month is a time to “celebrate the contributions women have made to the United States and recognize the specific achievements women have made over the course of American history...