About This Department

Penn Medicine’s Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine is one of the leading, fully integrated academic departments and is organized into a number of clinical divisions: 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. As part of the nation’s first medical school, founded in 1765, the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine traces its origins to 1895 when the William Pepper Laboratory of Clinical Medicine, the nation’s first fully equipped laboratory for routine and investigative work, was founded.