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Siddhartha Sen, MD, PhD joins LMP in molecular diagnostics
The Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology announces the appointment of Siddhartha Sen to our faculty as an assistant professor effective July 30. Sen comes to us from the Baylor University...
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Five LMP faculty promoted in 2021
LMP faculty Claudia Cohn, Kaylee Schwertfeger, Bharat Thyagarajan, Sara Hamilton Hart, and Andrew Nelson, were promoted effective June 21, 2021. Here are their new titles.
Claudia...
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INSPIRE targets diversity in STEM programs
U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) is the first woman to chair the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation in its two-century history. Last month she took to the Senate floor...
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U of M Medical School studying COVID-19 vaccine immune response among immunocompromised patients
The clinical trial is sponsored by SeroNet, a national network dedicated to serological sciences
MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL (06/21/2021) — Understanding the differences...
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Peruvian hematologists and pathologists benefit from Linden’s love of Spanish
The Carlos Alberto Seguin Hospital in Arequipa, Peru’s second largest city, is a teaching hospital and also the referral hospital for the southern part of the country. It is located a few...
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Sun pinpoints a key divergence in the relentless logic of cancer’s spread
In his Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, Columbia University physician Siddhartha Mukherjee describes cancer as a clonal disease because all...
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ARDL led early pandemic screening of state healthcare workers and outpatients
In-house testing innovation paved the way for tracking SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in the general population and gauging them following infection or vaccination
The day after the report that the first...
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Linden among Mpls.St.Paul Magazine "Rising Stars" for 2021
Last month Mpls.St.Paul Magazine recognized 213 M Health Fairview physicians from 58 adult and pediatric medical and surgical specialties on its 2021 Top Doctors: Rising Stars list. More M...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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