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Below are a few of the research interests in the Department of Pathology. For more complete information see individual faculty listings.
- Growth factors and proteinases regulating cellular growth and differentiation
- Role of genes and gene products in breast, prostate, and salivary gland cancers
- Medical automation, robotics and artificial intelligence in managing the laboratory
- Defining conditions for RBC, platelet and progenitor cell collection and preservation
- Biology of cancer-associated molecules such as the metastasis suppressor KAI I
- Alterations in genetic markers or specific genes that may be used as markers of diagnosis and/or prognosis for patients with cancer
- Mechanisms of glial neoplastic transformation
- Mechanisms of megakaryocytic differentiation
- Biochemistry and molecular biology of surface hydrophobic protein expression of medically important fungi, especially Candida
- Structure-function relation in recognition of self peptide by T and B cells
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