September 3, 2014 It is well known that chronic alcohol consumption compromises the human immune system. This fact is underscored when examining the susceptibility of chronic alcoholics to infectious disease...

September 3, 2014 The National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) has recognized the DeGowin Blood Center with two achievement awards! The awards recognize our center for outstanding achievement in service and performance, as well as collecting more than 25 hematopoietic stem cell products for NMDP in 2013...

August 29, 2014 Dr. Snow received his BS degree in Chemistry from Marquette University in Milwaukee, and his MD degree from the Creighton University in Omaha.

August 18, 2014 The Department of Pathology celebrated recent faculty promotions at a faculty meeting on August 12, 2014...

July 2, 2014 Dr. John Blau received his M.D. in 2008 from the University of Colorado...

June 24, 2014 The 2014 Frank A. Mitros Residents’ Visiting Professor Award was presented to Michelle Hirsch, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School...

June 10, 2014 Nancy Rosenthal, MD, Clinical Professor of Pathology was presented with the "Frank A. Mitros Excellence in Teaching and Clinical Service Award" at a recent faculty meeting...

May 28, 2014 Laura Collins, RN, BSN, HP(ASCP), Assistant Manager in the UI DeGowin Blood Center, has been selected as one of the 100 Great Iowa Nurses for 2014.

December 3, 2013 Kaylia Duncan, MS, won the University of Iowa L.B. Sims Outstanding Master's Thesis Award in the Biological Science for her thesis entitled “Dynamics of Tumor Progression And Therapy Response In IL-6 And MYC Driven Plasma Cell Malignancy”.

November 12, 2013 Starting on October 24, the University of Iowa Department of Pathology implemented a new DNA sequencing test for Cancer Mutation Profiling and Interpretation. This is the first clinically validated massively parallel (‘next generation’) DNA sequencing test for cancer to be offered in Iowa.