Research
We strongly encourage you to develop your own research project. Most residents become involved in investigative projects of one sort or another during their training. Many have published papers or abstracts and have made presentations of their work at national meetings. Residents may schedule blocks of time at almost any point in their residency to pursue research interests or participate in ongoing projects within the department or medical center.
Major areas of research within the department include developmental studies of the human brain and response to injury, neuroimmunology, flow cytometry, pathology of the dispersed neuroendocrine system, human cytogenetics, genetic mapping of familial cancer, the cell biology of intracellular protozoan parasites, physician workstations, medical informatics, decision analysis, blood cell recovery and kinetics, immune modulation, autoimmune hepatitis, and cellular transport mechanisms.
Important research collaborations occur among members of the department of Pathology and the faculty of other departments and institutional divisions. In addition, many faculty in the department are members of the Norris Cotton Cancer Center.
