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Please mark your calendars for this year’s Norma Berryhill Distinguished Lecture, which will be held virtually on Thursday, November 18, 2021. The event will open at 3:45 p.m. with the lecture scheduled to commence at 4:00 p.m.   Craig Fletcher, DVM, PhD, Professor and Vice Chair in the UNC School...

  This week the UNC Center for Women’s Health Research is sponsoring a poster session highlighting research accomplished by faculty, students, residents, and postdoctoral fellows.    The Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine is excited to use this event as an opportunity to announce the newly launched Women’s Health Multidisciplinary...

Christian Agosto-Burgos, Pathobiology & Translational Science Graduate Student was recently interviewed by Univision 40. He explains how natural, and vaccine-mediated immunity are different, why individuals develop the disease more than once, why it is important to receive the two doses of the vaccine, what is a variant, and why are...

Li Qian, PhD, associate professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, and associate director of the McAllister Heart Institute, has received the prestigious Emerging Investigator Award from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, a part of the NIH. The award includes $6.5 million in funding over seven years.

Li Qian, PhD, and Jiandong Liu, PhD, associate professors in the department of Pathology and Lab Medicine, have each won prestigious Established Investigator Awards from the American Heart Association for their separate research on how to heal damaged heart tissue. Their own hearts belong to each other, and the family...

Dr. John Schmitz and Dr. David Wohl of UNC were highlighted in an NPR story on a new approach to improve antibody testing for coronavirus. Dr. Schmitz is Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at UNC and Director of the Immunology Laboratory at UNC Hospitals.

Dr. Susan Weiss, one of our faculty members in Transfusion Medicine, was recently interviewed regarding development of a COVID-19 antibody treatment therapy.  The interview aired on ABC 11, WTVD during the 11:00 news.

Dr. Melissa Miller and her colleagues at UNC Hospitals have been recognized by the national media for working around the clock to develop a rapid COVID-19 test. The story aired on the “Today” show on NBC on March 19, 2020. Dr. Miller is Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at UNC and Director...

Congratulations to Dr. Charles Jennette on being awarded the 2020 Robert H. Heptinstall Lifetime Achievement Award by the Renal Pathology Society.

Congratulations to Dr. Melissa Miller on being awarded the 2021 American Society for Microbiology Award for Research and Leadership in Clinical Microbiology.