June 12, 2024
William Woodard “Bill” McLendon, MD, Professor Emeritus and Vice Chair of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, former Director of the Department of Hospital Laboratories, UNC Hospitals, passed away at age 93.
May 9, 2022
Li Qian, PhD, received the annual award, which recognizes graduate faculty who provide outstanding support and guidance to their doctoral students.
April 12, 2022
In an effort to improve patient access to organs and transplantation, Eric Weimer, PhD, and Katherine Newhall, PhD, combined their expertise to create an AI-driven approach to virtual crossmatching – a new platform designed to analyze donor/recipient pairs more efficiently, leading to better outcomes and lives saved.
March 21, 2022
Super Steward Awards recognize colleagues’ meaningful contributions to support the appropriate and effective use of antimicrobials at UNC Medical Center.
January 13, 2022
Georgette Dent, MD, has served in the role since 1998.
September 22, 2021
The UNC School of Medicine lab of Mehmet Kesimer, PhD, has further illuminated the molecular intricacies of mucus and its role in pulmonary diseases, laying more groundwork for better therapies for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and other airway conditions. The findings are published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
August 6, 2020
Silvio Antoniak, PhD, assistant professor in the UNC Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and member of the UNC Blood Research Center and the UNC McAllister Heart Institute, was awarded a four-year, $2.2 million grant from the NIH-NHLBI to investigate the potential therapeutic approach in inhibiting PAR1 to treat chemotherapy-induced heart failure.
March 11, 2020
J. Charles Jennette, MD, professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, and professor of medicine, has received the Robert H. Heptinstall Lifetime Achievement Award from the Renal Pathology Society (RPS). The honor was presented February 29 at the RPS Annual Meeting in Los Angeles, CA.
May 30, 2019
Russell Broaddus, MD, PhD, has been named Chair of the UNC School of Medicine’s Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, effective September 16, 2019.
April 18, 2019
Deborah Radisch, a 1976 alumna of the then medical technology program, spoke to a crowd of donors to the Division of Clinical Laboratory Science about her education and career path, most recently serving as North Carolina’s chief medical examiner.
April 11, 2019
UNC’s William A. Fischer II, MD, and David A. Wohl, MD, are part of an international group of authors that contributed to a Perspective piece published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The piece argues that patients with Ebola virus disease in countries with limited resources should be treated according to the same standard of care used in countries where resources are more readily available.