About the Department
Penn Medicine is a world-renowned, top-tiered academic medical center dedicated to discoveries that advance science, to outstanding patient care throughout the world, and to the education of physicians and scientists who carry on its legacy of excellence. The Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine is an integral component of Penn Medicine’s mission, with divisions of
anatomic pathology, laboratory medicine, transfusion medicine and therapeutic pathology, hematopathology, neuropathology, precision and computational diagnostics, as well as a research division in experimental pathology and immunobiology. As a fully integrated academic Department, it is also part of the oldest medical school in North America, the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, which is regularly ranked in the top five of U.S. In turn, the Department consistently ranks among the top three in NIH grants. Building on its legacy, the Department is now entering a new era of biomedical research that embraces an individualized approach to prevention and care. The Department supports Penn’s commitment to precision diagnostics, which are essential for personalized medicine, by expanding in the areas of genomic and therapeutic pathology. The Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine maintains a long tradition of excellence in basic scientific discoveries and translational research. In fact, the Philadelphia Chromosome, the first evidence of cancer as a genetic abnormality, was described by University of Pennsylvania pathologist Dr. Peter Nowell and named after its place of discovery in 1960. More recently, it has been the locus for groundbreaking advances in immuno- and gene therapy. This is the official page of the Penn Medicine Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine.
