August 2016

Alumni Spotlight: Dr. Jiaoti Huang, Pathology Chair at Duke University

Some pathologists find themselves torn between research and clinical practice, but Dr. Jiaoti Huang, MD, PhD isn't one of them. 

“If things work well, you don’t have to spend a lot of effort balancing the work,” he said. “For me, the more clinical work I do the more problems and issues that I discover for my research.”

URMC Faculty Help Author New Pathology Curriculum

Dr. David Hicks, director of Surgical Pathology at URMC, is a lead editor for the new online pathology educational tool, PATHPrimer (Elsevier, 2016).  

Heart Attack Prediction Tool Available for License

Four URMC researchers who received a U.S. patent for their innovative method of predicting the risk of recurrent heart attacks are eager to see their work brought to clinics, hospitals, and physicians’ offices around the world.

Student Blog: My Summer in Surgical Pathology

While many teenagers are spending their summer riding bikes or going to the beach, students in the University of Rochester Medical Center’s Pathology IT Group can be found learning gross anatomy in the morgue, studying histology in the library, or huddled over a microscope together discussing a possible diagnosis.

Burack, Mosmann Receive $50K Wilmot Pilot Grant

Dr. Richard Burack, director of Hematopathology, together with Dr. Tim Mosmann of the Center for Vaccine Biology and Immunology, has received a $50,000 pilot grant from Wilmot Cancer Institute