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Thomas awarded V Scholar Grant for Black/African American Cancer Researchers
The V Foundation for Cancer Research, founded by ESPN and legendary basketball coach Jim Valvano "to achieve Victory Over Cancer," has awarded LMP assistant professor Stefani Thomas a 2020 V...
Pathology
Dr. Kristin Hogquist is the American Association of Immunologists’ 2021 Distinguished Fellow
Kristin Hogquist, PhD, the David M. Brown professor and vice chair for Research in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at the University of Minnesota Medical School, has been...
Pathology
Hanson’s LMP training laid the foundation for his clinical laboratory leadership
What happens behind the scenes can make all the difference. More medical decisions affecting the lives and well-being of Americans than ever before depend on the results of laboratory tests....
Pathology
Three Ways to Prepare for the Next Pandemic
ARDL’s Utility to Minnesota Presents a New Model for Lab Operations
Almost one year ago, as most communities enacted stay-at-home orders and hospitals rushed to action, an unsettling quiet plagued...
Pathology
Nelson’s research team pins down a breast cancer biomarker
Some 90 percent of the estimated 276,000 women diagnosed with breast cancer in the U.S. in 2020 can expect to live five years or more. The death rate from the disease has been dropping...
Pathology
Jameson weighs in how long a COVID-19 vaccine will last
LMP professor Steve Jameson was one of the experts National Public Radio turned to for 3 Questions And The Emerging Answers About COVID-19 Vaccine Protection. Here is Jameson's response to how...
Pathology
Talking critically-needed blood donations with the LMP's Claudia Cohn
The American Red Cross estimates that someone needs a blood transfusion approximately every two seconds. National Blood Donor Month brings awareness to this need during the month of January when the...
Pathology
Researchers Conduct Comprehensive Analysis to Try and Determine Why Some Families Live Longer
The Long Life Family Study (LLFS) is a unique, international project designed to reveal why some people live until a very old age and why some families maintain their health far longer...
Pathology
Karger featured in CAP media briefing on COVID-19 testing landscape
On Dec. 9, the College of American Pathologists (CAP) hosted the third in a series of virtual press conferences featuring leading pathologists—the physicians on the frontlines of testing who biopsy...
Pathology
Neuropathologist Clark’s career reflects the influence of an early mentor
As a high-school student in Truman, a small farming town in south-central Minnesota, Brent Clark was drawn to biological science and chemistry. His guidance counselor told him about a Minnesota...
Pathology
Mroz pursues COVID-19 clinical clues in DNA code
Reading, writing, and editing the human genome, the “book” of human life, is a major scientific enterprise today nearly two decades after the completion of the Human Genome Project was announced....
Pathology
U of M Medical School selected as Capacity Building Center for National Lab Network
MINNEAPOLIS, MN- Oct. 8, 2020 - The University of Minnesota Medical School’s Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology has been selected to participate in a new national...
Pathology
Guang (Geoff) Yang, MD, PhD Appointed Instructor In Molecular Diagnostics
The Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology announces the appointment of Guang (Geoff) Yang as an instructor in Molecular Pathology effective Sept. 28. He is currently an LMP...
Pathology
Convalescent plasma for treating COVID-19 patients gives Cohn a national profile
The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 launched its deadly rampage across the American Midwest at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station near Chicago in September 1918. A month...
Pathology
Liam Chen, MD, PhD Joins LMP
The Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology announces the appointment of Liam Chen to our faculty as an associate professor and Director of Neuropathology effective August 31. Chen comes to...
Pathology
Amy Beckman, MD, Joins LMP Faculty
The Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology announces the appointment of Amy Beckman to our faculty as an assistant professor effective July 29. Beckman has been in the department since 2015...
Pathology
Stem cells join the battle against COVID-19
As the coronavirus spreads relentlessly around the world, killing hundreds of thousands of people and infecting millions, billions of stem cells are being infused into COVID-19 patients suffering...
Pathology
Koob brings his genetic puzzle-solving mastery to COVID-19
For more than three decades Michael Koob has been working out complicated puzzles using the tools of molecular biology and genetics. Today his deliberative labors are paying off -- with untold...
Pathology