Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Websitehttps://med.psu.edu/pathology

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Catherine Abendroth, MD
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine - Professor
- Division of Anatomic Pathology
Person: Academic
19912026
Ina Amarillo, PhD, MSc
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine - Associate Professor
Person: Academic
20082025
Khai Ang, PhD
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine - Assistant Professor
- Division of Experimental Pathology
Person: Academic
20102025
Michael Bayerl, MD
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine - Professor
- Division of Anatomic Pathology
Person: Academic
20022026
Sanica Bhele, MBBS
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine - Assistant Professor
Person: Academic
20072024
April Bobenchik, PhD
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine - Associate Professor
Person: Academic
20072025
Guoli Chen, MD, MS, PhD
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine - Associate Professor
Person: Academic
20032026
Keith Cheng, MD, PhD
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine - Distinguished Professor
- Division of Experimental Pathology
- Department of Molecular and Precision Medicine - Distinguished Professor
- Penn State Cancer Institute
- Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences
- Institute for Computational and Data Sciences (ICDS)
- Cancer Institute, Next-Generation Therapies
Person: Academic
19842025
Peter Christ, MD
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine - Assistant Professor
- Division of Anatomic Pathology
Person: Academic
19831983
Neil Christensen, MSc, PhD
Person: Academic
19832025

215202 Citations
210 h-index
2739 Article
236 Review article
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Acquired punctate palmoplantar keratoderma following Programmed cell death protein 1 inhibitor therapy
Sarkar, N., Markidan, J., Gibbs, M. & Helm, K., Mar 2026, In: JAAD Case Reports. 69, p. 66-69 4 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Open Access
Clinical Performance of a Novel Point-of-Care High-Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin I Assay
Wu, A. H. B., Mahler, S. A., House, S. L., Jortani, S. A., Creer, M. H., Rising, K. L., Bischof, J. J., Crystal, C., Headden, G. F., Apple, F. S., Harrison, N. E., Meltzer, A. C., Baca, J. T., Tiffany, B., Sochor, M., Pentecostes, G. U., Di Tullio, K. P., Gupta, M. S., Singer, A. J. & Januzzi, J. L., Jan 1 2026, In: Journal of Applied Laboratory Medicine. 11, 1, p. 98-112 15 p.
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Expression of Nectin-4 and Trop-2 in upper tract urothelial carcinoma: implications for biomarker-driven antibody-drug conjugate therapy
Shi, P., Wu, Q., Zhang, Y., Chen, T., Warrick, J. I., DeGraff, D. J., Raman, J. D. & Chen, G., Mar 2026, In: Journal of Pathology: Clinical Research. 12, 2, e70077.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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How do we teach blood donor center operations without a blood donor center?
Potochny, E. M., Domen, R. E. & George, M. R., Jan 2026, In: Transfusion. 66, 1, p. 11-17 7 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Mediastinal Mature Teratoma With Malignant Transformation to Colorectal-Type Adenocarcinoma
Vinluan, A. T., Schwarze, E., Bayerl, M. G., Rupard, E. J. & Go, P. H., 2026, (Accepted/In press) In: Annals of Thoracic Surgery Short Reports.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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Metastases to the gallbladder: Challenges of clinical and frozen section diagnosis
Barr, T., Washburn, E., Chen, G. & Hu, X., Feb 2026, In: Annals of Diagnostic Pathology. 80, 152568.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Mitigation of Oxidative Stress Pathways in the Diabetic Cornea and Lacrimal Glands Contributes to the Rapid Reversal of Diabetic Dry Eye by Naltrexone
Krebs, A. K., Diaz, D., Sassani, J. W., Zagon, I. S. & McLaughlin, P. J., Feb 2026, In: Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science. 67, 2, 23.
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Phenotypes and mechanisms of dysfunctional cardiac T-lymphocytes in dilated cardiomyopathy patients
Angelotti, A., Ponnusamy, T., Kumar, V., Passarelli, G. V., Malysz, J., Mahesh, B., Soleimani, B., Bradley, E. A. & Bansal, S. S., Mar 2026, In: Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology. 212, p. 16-25 10 p.
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Rare case of fatal accelerated/blast-phase myeloproliferative neoplasm arising from essential thrombocythemia
Fye, N., Malik, S., Washburn, E. & Jackson, C., Mar 2026, In: Human Pathology Reports. 43, 300825.
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Solar Elastotic Band: An Uncommon Reaction Pattern on Marked Sun-Damaged Skin That Shares Features With Keratoelastoidosis Marginalis
Kominick, C., Moeckel, C., Helm, K. F., Price, L. & Helm, T., Feb 1 2026, In: The American Journal of dermatopathology. 48, 2, p. 121-124 4 p.
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A 3D zebrafish microanatomical and gene expression atlas for disease modeling
Ang, K. (PI) & Postlethwait, J. H. (CoPI)
NIH Office of the Director
8/15/25 → 7/31/26
Project: Research project
Penn State Research training in Oncology and Medicine to Inspire Student Engagement (PROMISE)
Eckert, K. (PI) & Matters, G. (CoPI)
National Cancer Institute
9/1/22 → 8/31/26
Project: Research project
Deciphering Early Stages of Polyomavirus CNS Pathogenesis and Immunity
Lukacher, A. (PI)
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
5/1/22 → 4/30/26
Project: Research project
Regulation of Cell Intrinsic Immunity in Bladder Cancer
Degraff, D. (PI)
Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs
1/1/20 → …
Project: Research project
Ocular Trauma Microsurgery Simulator
Sassani, J. (PI)
Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs
1/1/10 → …
Project: Research project
A co-infection model for papillomavirus associated infections and cancers
Hu, J. (PI) & Gilbert, N. N. M. (CoPI)
National Cancer Institute
4/1/23 → 3/31/24
Project: Research project
The role of bacterial vaginosis-associated bacteria in papillomavirus persistence and cancers
Hu, J. (PI) & Murooka, T. T. T. (CoPI)
National Cancer Institute
3/1/22 → 2/29/24
Project: Research project
The Role of Transcription Factors in Driving Aggressive Phenotype in Non-Invasive Bladder Cancer
Warrick, J. (PI)
National Cancer Institute
4/15/21 → 3/31/23
Project: Research project
Metabolic control of the second messenger cyclic diguanylate: implications to intracellular bacterial pathogens
Pontes, M. H. (PI)
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
5/21/20 → 4/30/22
Project: Research project
The role of chronic cannabis and its two major psychoactive ingredients in papillomavirus-associated oropharyngeal disease
Hu, J. (PI)
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
4/1/19 → 3/31/21
Project: Research project

Motivations and Potential for a 3D Image Informatics for Histopathology (Panel Discussion)
Cheng, K. (Speaker)
Nov 4 2017
Activity: Talk types › Oral presentation
From Morphology to Math: Using whole zebrafish to create the engineering and computational infrastructure for Microanatomic Phenomics
Cheng, K. (Speaker), Ding, Y. (Speaker), Katz, S. (Speaker), Lin, A. (Speaker), van Rossum, D. (Speaker) & Vanselow, D. (Speaker)
Sep 27 2017
Activity: Talk types › Oral presentation
Morphometric phenomics and Cross-Atlas Registration of Virtual 3D soft tissue microCT images of Zebrafish
Cheng, K. (Speaker), Ding, Y. (Speaker), Lin, A. (Speaker), Yakovlev, M. (Speaker), Vanselow, D. (Speaker), Xin, X. (Speaker), Katz, S. (Speaker), Vanselow, D. (Speaker) & La Riviere, P. (Speaker)
Jul 5 2017
Activity: Talk types › Oral presentation

AAAS Fellow
Cheng, K. (Recipient), 2020
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Career Citation Milestone Award - D (500) Club
Broach, J. (Recipient), Coates, M. (Recipient), Duffy, C. (Recipient), Gardner, A. (Recipient), Gill, D. (Recipient), Helm, K. (Recipient), Kimball, S. (Recipient), Leslie, D. (Recipient), Lipton, A. (Recipient), Ma, T. (Recipient), Naccarelli, G. (Recipient), Schmitz, K. (Recipient), Siedlecki, C. (Recipient), Stoute, J. (Recipient), Tombran-Tink, J. (Recipient) & Wang, H.-G. (Recipient), 2020
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Career Citation Milestone Award - D (500) Club
Bixler, E. (Recipient) & Cheng, K. (Recipient), 2016
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Career Citation Milestone Award - M (1000) Club
Carrel, L. (Recipient), Cheng, K. (Recipient) & Chin, T. (Recipient), 2020
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Career Research Excellence Award
Eyster, M. E. (Recipient), 2015
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Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching
McAlevy, M. (Recipient), Bonavia, A. (Recipient), Malhotra, A. (Recipient), Weller, G. E. (Recipient), Waning, D. (Recipient), Lanza, M. (Recipient), Ken, K. (Recipient), McCarver, S. (Recipient), Glasser, J. (Recipient), Schooler, J. (Recipient), Lewis, S. (Recipient), Onks, C. (Recipient), Rao, R. (Recipient), Nickolich, S. (Recipient), Helm, L. (Recipient), Critchfield, L. (Recipient), Myers, K. (Recipient), Green, M. (Recipient), Songdej, N. (Recipient), Narayana, S. (Recipient), Razjouyan, H. (Recipient), Duca, N. (Recipient), Casas, R. (Recipient), Cooper, J. (Recipient), Wright, R. (Recipient), Karasinski, A. (Recipient), Probolus, J. A. (Recipient), Madara, J. (Recipient), Guck, D. (Recipient), Ingram, D. (Recipient), De Obaldia, A. (Recipient), Hussein, R. (Recipient), McGillen, B. (Recipient), Chapman, T. (Recipient), Munyon, R. (Recipient), Kinard, S. R. (Recipient), Banks, S. (Recipient), Genao, I. (Recipient), McShane, M. (Recipient), Allie, S. R. (Recipient), Silberman, Y. (Recipient), Evey, L. (Recipient), McLaughlin, P. (Recipient), Grogan, J. (Recipient), Nguyen, J. (Recipient), Donato, H. (Recipient), Fox, E. (Recipient), Gniady, J. (Recipient), Oladipo, O. (Recipient), Abendroth, C. (Recipient), Keefer, L. (Recipient), Massare, B. (Recipient), Undar, A. (Recipient), Mondal, P. (Recipient), Mainali, G. (Recipient), Jhaveri, P. (Recipient), Freiberg, A. (Recipient), Levenson, R. (Recipient), Mailman, R. (Recipient), Boodoo, R. (Recipient), Francis, A. (Recipient), Hameed, U. (Recipient), Yadav, S. (Recipient), Calo, W. (Recipient), Pinto, C. (Recipient), Cooper, A. (Recipient), Kulaylat, A. (Recipient), Scow, J. (Recipient), Roberts, J. (Recipient), Winder, J. (Recipient), Aminsharifi, A. (Recipient), Adams, N. (Recipient) & van Riggelen, J. (Recipient), 2023
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Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching
Aprile, B. (Recipient), Bezinover, D. (Recipient), Blackall, G. (Recipient), Booth, J. (Recipient), Buchkovich, N. (Recipient), Budde, A. (Recipient), Burns, A. (Recipient), Cartee, T. (Recipient), Chu, D. C. (Recipient), Cilley, R. (Recipient), Crook, T. (Recipient), Dalke, K. (Recipient), Dambro, A. (Recipient), De Jesus, S. (Recipient), Demetriou, T. (Recipient), DeWaters, A. (Recipient), Duca, N. (Recipient), Evey, L. (Recipient), Frauenhoffer, E. (Recipient), Garner, M. (Recipient), Glass, K. (Recipient), Goyal, N. (Recipient), Grine, K. (Recipient), Habib, S. (Recipient), Irby, R. (Recipient), Jones, E. (Recipient), June, R. (Recipient), Karamchandani, K. (Recipient), Karpa, K. (Recipient), Kasmire, K. (Recipient), Katzman, M. (Recipient), Kavanagh, R. (Recipient), Kees-Folts, D. (Recipient), Kesterson, J. (Recipient), Sciacca Kirby, J. (Recipient), Kresch, M. (Recipient), Lankford, E. (Recipient), McDonald, A. (Recipient), Miller, R. (Recipient), Moldovan, G.-L. (Recipient), Myler, C. (Recipient), Nelson, A. (Recipient), Neutze, J. (Recipient), Newell, J. (Recipient), Norbury, C. (Recipient), O'Hara, C. (Recipient), Palmer, T. (Recipient), Pantanelli, S. (Recipient), Pichardo-Lowden, A. (Recipient), Po, W. (Recipient), Radico, J. (Recipient), Radtka, J. (Recipient), Razeghi, S. (Recipient), Rodgers, R. (Recipient), Romanoski, N. (Recipient), Samson, T. (Recipient), Shantz, L. (Recipient), Smith, B. (Recipient), Stephens, M. (Recipient) & Wang, M. (Recipient), 2019
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Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching
Aprile, B. (Recipient), Aumiller, B. B. (Recipient), Berkey, F. (Recipient), Bonavia, A. (Recipient), Booth, J. (Recipient), Brennan, K. (Recipient), Browning, K. (Recipient), Buchkovich, N. (Recipient), Butt, F. K. (Recipient), Carrel, L. (Recipient), Choe, A. (Recipient), Clarke, S. (Recipient), Coleman, M. (Recipient), Dalke, K. (Recipient), Devaraj, T. (Recipient), Duryea, S. (Recipient), Enama, J. (Recipient), Evey, L. (Recipient), Finch, E. (Recipient), Fischer, M. (Recipient), Gallo, R. (Recipient), Gavigan, P. (Recipient), Ghaffari, G. (Recipient), Go, P. (Recipient), Grana, J. (Recipient), Greensmith, J. (Recipient), Grogan, J. (Recipient), Hajnal, A. (Recipient), Helm, M. (Recipient), Hempel, N. (Recipient), Imamura, F. (Recipient), Jain, R. (Recipient), Jeganathan, N. (Recipient), Kelle, A. (Recipient), Kumar, A. (Recipient), Kwun, H. J. (Recipient), Lang, C. (Recipient), Lutzkanin, A. (Recipient), Martin, K. (Recipient), McGarrity, T. (Recipient), McHale, K. (Recipient), McLaughlin, P. (Recipient), Mormando, C. (Recipient), Nguyen, J. (Recipient), Nickolich, M. (Recipient), Ouyang, T. (Recipient), Pachuski, J. (Recipient), Polimera, H. (Recipient), Potochny, E. (Recipient), Rakszawski, K. L. (Recipient), Reyes, L. (Recipient), Sankoorikal, B.-J. (Recipient), Shantz, L. (Recipient), Singh, M. (Recipient), Songdej, N. (Recipient), Spotts, R. (Recipient), Swigart, A. (Recipient), Varner, M. (Recipient), Verma, N. (Recipient), Walter, V. (Recipient), Wang, C.-Y. (Recipient), Warfield, D. (Recipient), Wilson, M. N. (Recipient) & Hussein, R. (Recipient), 2021
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Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching
Hussein, R. (Recipient), Stredny, E. (Recipient), Whitley, M. (Recipient), Mnatsakanyan, N. (Recipient), Raimundo, N. (Recipient), Zarnescu, D. (Recipient), Adams, N. (Recipient), Lanza, M. (Recipient), Kowalczyk, A. (Recipient), Travelute, C. (Recipient), Marco, C. (Recipient), Tondt, J. (Recipient), Anderson, A. (Recipient), Heron, C. (Recipient), Newman, R. (Recipient), Richard, D. (Recipient), Scartozzi, C. (Recipient), Dellasega, C. (Recipient), Akhtar, N. (Recipient), Albano-Aluquin, S. (Recipient), Chisty, A. (Recipient), Crook, T. (Recipient), Federici, E. H. (Recipient), Ingram, D. (Recipient), Lakshmanan, P. (Recipient), Mathew, A. (Recipient), Narayana, S. (Recipient), Prokop, A. (Recipient), Razjouyan, H. (Recipient), Tariq, A. (Recipient), Thompson, B. (Recipient), Thompson, E. (Recipient), Trivedi, N. (Recipient), Van Scoy, L. (Recipient), Wong, J. (Recipient), Allie, S. R. (Recipient), Browning, K. (Recipient), Evey, L. (Recipient), McLaughlin, P. (Recipient), Mamarabadi, M. (Recipient), Shankar, L. (Recipient), Bowie, E. (Recipient), Petfield, J. (Recipient), Whitaker, M. (Recipient), Aynardi, J. (Recipient), Allen, N. (Recipient), Cunningham, B. (Recipient), Gandhi, C. (Recipient), Jairath, B. (Recipient), Lutzkanin, K. M. (Recipient), Kerris, E. (Recipient), Nelson, A. (Recipient), Shook, J. (Recipient), Proctor, E. A. (Recipient), Raup-Konsavage, W. (Recipient), Romanoski, N. (Recipient), Graziane, J. (Recipient), Llorente, A. (Recipient), Nutting, S. (Recipient), Pinto, C. (Recipient), Yingst, J. (Recipient), Zhou, S. (Recipient), Mahase, S. (Recipient), Brian, P. (Recipient), Goldman, E. (Recipient), Maffie, J. (Recipient), Brahmbhatt, R. (Recipient), Fahy, A. (Recipient), Gish, J. (Recipient), Reed, M. F. (Recipient) & Tomasko, J. (Recipient), 2024
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Distinguished Educator Award
Behura, C. (Recipient), DeWaters, A. (Recipient), George, M. (Recipient) & Williams, E. (Recipient), 2024
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