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Kathy Davis Finishes Her Career at Michigan Medicine

September 29, 2020 / News

Kathy Davis, IT Administrative Director in Pathology Informatics, retires after more than 40 years of service to the Department of Pathology. Over her career, she has contributed to lab information system software development efforts that have impacted the history of pathology informatics, both at Michigan and nationally.

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In Memoriam: David S. Jacobs, MD

September 18, 2020 / In Memoriam

U-M Medical School graduate and former Department of Pathology Resident, David Samuel Jacobs, died peacefully at home on Sunday, September 13, 2020, at the age of 88, surrounded by family. David was an accomplished pathologist, devoted husband to his wife Judy Jacobs, father of four, and grandfather to eight.  He completed his residency program under Drs. A. James French and M. R. Abell, two of the founding Chairs of the Department...

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Utilizing Machine Learning in Pathology

September 11, 2020 / Anatomic Pathology

In a recently published Nature Reviews-Nephrology review article, “Digital pathology and computational image analysis in nephropathology,” Dr. Ulysses G. J. Balis discussed how the emergence of digital pathology — an image-based environment for the acquisition, management, and interpretation of pathology information supported by computational techniques for data extraction and analysis — is changing the pathology ecosystem [...]

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U-M Announces COVID-19 Sampling and Tracking Program

September 8, 2020 / Announcement

The University of Michigan will begin a Sampling and Testing Program of asymptomatic students, faculty and staff for the virus that causes COVID-19 on September 7.

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Study of SARS-CoV-2 reveals new disease surveillance method

September 4, 2020 / Anatomic Pathology

In a broadly collaborative effort, Pathology faculty Drs. Carl Schmidt, Jeffrey Myers, Kristine Konopka, Paul Lephart, and Teresa Nguyen joined Michigan Medicine faculty from the departments of Epidemiology, Internal Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology, Mathematics and Complex Systems, and the School of Public Health in a study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases entitled “SARS-CoV-2 surveillance in decedents in a large, urban medical examiner’s office.”

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Scientists Develop First Drug-Like Compounds to Inhibit Elusive Cancer-Linked Enzymes

September 2, 2020 / Rogel Cancer Center

Structural biology techniques helped researchers target the nuclear receptor-binding SET domain family, whose malfunction is associated with several types of cancer.

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