Congratulations to David Beebe, Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine & Biomedical Engineering, and his students Duane and Terry Juang on receiving one of this year’s Discovery to Product (D2P) awards. D2P’s annual State Economic …
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General Department of Pathology news postings.
StrataGraft approved by FDA
StrataGraft, a treatment for thermal burns that was developed from cells originally isolated and characterized in the laboratory of Pathology Professor Lynn Allen-Hoffmann at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, has …
Henry C. Pitot III, M.D., Ph.D.
Former Pathology Department faculty member and Chair, Henry Pitot, MD, PhD, passed away last week at the age of 91. Dr. Pitot joined the departments of Pathology and Oncology (McArdle Laboratory) in 1960, served as …
Pathology Faculty help Dane County schools to re-open during pandemic
UW-Madison researchers, including Shelby O’Connor and David O’Connor, taught local school nurses and personnel how to do rapid testing for the Covid-19 virus. Having a fast and reliable test on-site allowed schools to react quickly …
Huihua Li Receives International Association of Chinese Pathologists Award
Congratulations to Pathology Resident Huihua Li who received a 1st place award from the International Association of Chinese Pathologists for his abstract “LncRNA Expression and SDHB Mutation in Pheochromocytomas and Paragangliomas (PPGLs).” Co-authors on the …
Senator Baldwin visits laboratories involved in COVID-19 variant surveillance
Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin visited the AVRL laboratories of Pathology Professors Shelby O’Connor and Dave O’Connor where genomic sequencing is being used to track the arrival of virus variants in Southern WI. Senator Baldwin was …
Dave O’Connor and colleagues participate in COVID-19 virus variant surveillance
Pathology Professor Dave O’Connor and colleagues at the AIDS Vaccine Research Laboratory are keeping watch for the arrival of virus variants which may be more adept at infecting people or possibly making vaccines and common …
Professors Dave and Shelby O’Connor are key participants in 4th HIVR4P Conference
Dr. Dave O’Connor is one of five global co-Chairs of the 4th HIV Research for Prevention (HIVR4P) Conference, and Dr. Shelby O’Connor is co-Chair of a session on Unconventional Immunity. HIVR4P is the world’s only …
Alan Bridges Receives Veterans Health Administration Award
Congratulations to Alan Bridges, MD, our department’s Medical Director of the Clinical Immunology Laboratory, who has been awarded the prestigious Veterans Health Administration John D. Chase Award for Executive Excellence in Health Care. Read more …
Studying the introduction and spread of SARS-CoV-2
Trends in SARS-CoV-2 caseload and spread are often reported on large geographic scales, such as US states, which obscures the degree to which trends may differ on smaller geographic scales. In a recent Nature Communications …