About This Department

Penn Medicine’s Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine is organized into clinical divisions of Anatomic Pathology, Neuropathology, Laboratory Medicine, Transfusion Medicine and Therapeutic Pathology, Hematopathology, Precision and Computational Diagnostics, Pediatric Pathology, and its basic science division, Experimental Pathology and Immunobiology.

Each clinical division contains a number of specialty laboratories and services, while the experimental pathology division is comprised of a range of basic and translational research laboratories.

The department’s physicians and scientists have developed many recent diagnostic tests through the use of cellular, genetic, and molecular technology. Research areas of interests include bioinformatics, biomarker discovery, cancer biology, cardiovascular pathobiology, developmental, stem cell, and regenerative biology, diabetes, experimental therapeutics, gene therapy and vaccines, genetics, gene regulation and genetic-related diseases, fundamental immunology, hematology, HIV, microbiology and infectious diseases, metabolic regulation, neuropathology and neurodegenerative disorders, proteomics, and orphan diseases.