Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Websitehttps://med.psu.edu/pathology

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Ina Amarillo, PhD, MSc
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine - Associate Professor
Person: Academic
20082026
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
20072026
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, Experimental Therapeutics
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
19832026
Eric L. Cochran, MD
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine - Assistant Professor
- Division of Anatomic Pathology
Person: Academic
20162025

221757 Citations
214 h-index
2758 Article
241 Review article
121 Letter
80 Comment/debate
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1 The vaginal microbiome, papillomavirus infection, and cervical cancer: Established associations in search of model systems and mechanistic answers
Passarelli, G. V., Whang, S. N., Gilbert, N. M. & Hu, J., Mar 11 2026, In: mBio. 17, 3, p. 1-16 16 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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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

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ADLM Guidance Document on Incorporating Gender Diversity in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Thomas, T. A., Winston-McPherson, G. N., Amarillo, I., Berry, A. D., Davidge-Pitts, C. J., Devaraj, S., Goldstein, Z., Karon, B. S., Katzman, B. M., Khalifa, M. A., Luu, H. S., Nichols, J. H., Stockley, T. L., Stoffel, M. R., Greene, D. N. & Krasowski, M. D., Jul 2026, In: Journal of Applied Laboratory Medicine. 11, 4, p. 887-926 40 p.
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ALK1-Negative Epithelioid Histiocytoma: Lessons From a Rare Case
Hong, J., Gizaw, N. B., Thieu, T. M., Kominick, C., Helm, T. N. & Helm, K. F., 2026, (Accepted/In press) In: American Journal of Dermatopathology.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
A Unique Ophthalmology/Optometry Collaborative
Press, L. J., Freeman, P. B., Yanoff, M. & Sassani, J. W., Aug 2026, In: Advances in Ophthalmology and Optometry. 11, 1, p. xxxv-xxxviii
Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review
CD28-deficient mice are vulnerable to mouse papillomavirus MmuPV1 infection of the skin and mucosae
Brendle, S., Li, J., Lu, S., Schell, T. D., Kozak, M., Walter, V., Shearer, D., Place, J., Balogh, K., Casanova, J. L., Christensen, N., Burgener, A. D., Murooka, T. T., Zhu, Y., Béziat, V. & Hu, J., Mar 2026, In: PLoS pathogens. 22, 3 March, e1013968.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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Cell-Mediated Immunity Against Human Papillomavirus Infection: From Viral Clearance to Oncogenesis
Savage, D., Hu, J., Burgener, A. D., Raouf, A. & Murooka, T. T., Mar 2026, In: Viruses. 18, 3, 362.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

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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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Correction: PIGN spatiotemporally regulates the spindle assembly checkpoint proteins in leukemia transformation and progression (Scientific Reports, (2021), 11, 1, (19022), 10.1038/s41598-021-98218-y)
Teye, E. K., Lu, S., Chen, F., Yang, W., Abraham, T., Stairs, D. B., Wang, H. G., Yochum, G. S., Brodsky, R. A. & Pu, J. J., Dec 2026, In: Scientific reports. 16, 1, 17171.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review

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Matarneh, A., Sardar, S., Abendroth, C., Salvatore, S., Vasekar, M., Rosenbaum, E., Gutgarts, V., Ghahramani, N. & Trivedi, N., Mar 2026, In: Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 21, 3
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65 Finished

Building a Wide-field, High-resolution Histotomography Resource for Biology
Cheng, K. K. C. (PI) & Cheng, K. (CoPI)
NIH Office of the Director
6/15/24 → 5/31/27
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 → 4/30/27
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)
1/1/10 → …
Project: Research project
Ocular Trauma Microsurgery Simulator
Sassani, J. (PI)
Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs
1/1/10 → …
Project: Research project
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
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
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
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

3 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
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

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), 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
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
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
Abendroth, C. (Recipient), Hennrikus, E. (Recipient), Moser, E. (Recipient) & Shantz, L. (Recipient), 2016
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