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 …
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General Department of Pathology news postings.
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 …
Department faculty help advance COVID-19 research on campus
Several faculty from the Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, including Drs. Matkowskyj, Yang and Galior, played a pivotal role to help advance COVID-19 research on campus. In the spring of 2020, when instruction moved …
Professor Igor Slukvin and colleagues use gene-editing technologies to advance studies on HIV cure
Pathology and Lab Medicine Professor Igor Slukvin and colleagues at UW–Madison’s Wisconsin National Primate Research Center and Schools of Veterinary Medicine and Medicine and Public Health have employed CRISPR to edit the DNA in newly …
Congressional Briefing on UW-Madison’s Rapid COVID-19 Testing Efforts
The Office of Federal Relations hosted a briefing and virtual tour for congressional staff on UW–Madison’s work to develop rapid saliva tests for COVID-19 featuring UW–Madison faculty David O’Connor, Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine …
Shahriar Salamat Awarded The Reza
Congratulations to Shahriar Salamat who was selected to receive the 2020 Reza Teaching Award – a peer-nominated award presented annually for exemplary dedication to the educational mission of the department and for success in teaching students …