Enid Gilbert-Barness, MD, world-renowned pediatric pathologist, passed away on April 28, 2022. Dr. Gilbert-Barness held a faculty appointment as Professor of Pathology at the UW Madison from 1970 to 1993 and served as Director of …
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General Department of Pathology news postings.
Matyas Sandor and Zsuzsa Fabry’s Research Featured in Nature Immunology
Professors Sandor, Fabry and colleagues have elucidated the lymphatic vasculature mediated regulatory pathways that modulate inflammation of the brain. The study will lead to the next step to designing better therapies for neuroinflammatory diseases. The …
B. Lynn Allen-Hoffmann receives Chancellor’s Entrepreneurial Achievement Award
Dr. Allen-Hoffmann was honored March 23, 2022 for her outstanding achievements in founding Stratatech Corporation and developing a cell-based skin graft to treat adult burn patients. The graft, which was recently approved for use by …
Department Ranks #16 in Total NIH Grant Funding in 2021
The Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research recently released NIH grant funding rankings of Schools of Medicine, their Departments, and Principal Investigators. With almost $14M in total NIH funding, our Department ranked #16 among Pathology …
Congratulations to Emily Kammerud, recipient of a 2022 Award in the Creative Arts!
Emily Kammerud enjoys exploring various media to create figure studies and still lifes. You won’t find her drawing inspiration from bowls of fruit or live models, however—her muses reside in the morgue where she works …
LeBeau Lab investigating shark proteins to prepare for future coronaviruses
“The big issue is there are a number of coronaviruses that are poised for emergence in humans,” says Aaron LeBeau, a University of Wisconsin–Madison professor of pathology who helped lead the study. “What we’re doing …
David Beebe awarded D2P innovation development award
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 …
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 …