About This Department

The Division of Laboratory Medicine faculty members at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) lead the different sections for Laboratory Medicine, augmented by additional faculty with similar primary interests at neighboring Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), Penn Presbyterian Medical Center (PPMC) in West Philadelphia, and Pennsylvania Hospital (PAH) in Center City. The high quality of laboratory services provided by divisional laboratories would not be possible without the expertise and dedication of nearly 275 technical and support staff. The armamentarium of tests offered through this Division’s clinical laboratories is one of the largest for an academic medical center in the United States in support of the Penn Medicine affiliated hospitals, their out-patient practices, and the health system’s community physician practices. Division faculty have extramurally funded research programs in diverse areas, including: the genetic basis of development; immunity and neurodegenerative disease; autoimmunity; thrombosis and hemorrhage, atherosclerosis, pathogenesis and epidemiology of infectious diseases.