• Pride in Pathology 2025

    July 31, 2025
    Pride in Pathology Day was held on July 24, 2025! Thank you to all who participated by dressing in their rainbow-best and to the PaLM Social Committee for organizing the event.

  • Welcome Dr. Saman Maleki

    July 31, 2025
    The Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Saman Maleki as a new member of our Basic Science (UWOFA) faculty, at the rank of Associate Professor, effective August 1, 2025. Dr. Saman Maleki is a translational immuno-oncology scientist at the London Health Sciences Research Institute (LHSCRI), Western University, and the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research in Canada.

  • Student Spotlight: Luis Limo, PhD Candidate

    July 28, 2025
    Congratulations to Luis Limo, a second-year PhD candidate in the Society-To-Cell Oral Health Research Lab under the supervision of Dr. Noha Gomaa, who received the Outstanding Abstract Award (Pre-Doctoral Category) in the Behavioural, Epidemiologic, and Health Services Research area at the 2025 International Association for Dental, Oral, and Craniofacial Research (IADR) General Session in Barcelona, Spain.

  • Major federal funding boost propels health research to new heights

    July 25, 2025
    With more than $20 million in new federal funding, researchers at Schulich Medicine & Dentistry are advancing a wide spectrum of biomedical and health research – from cancer immunotherapy and chronic disease to neuroscience, medical imaging and health systems innovation.

  • Enhancing Blood Culture Diagnostics in PaLM Microbiology Lab: Efficiency, Education, and Research Integration

    July 21, 2025
    Sepsis is a medical emergency in which every hour of delayed appropriate therapy significantly increases mortality. Rapid and accurate microbiological diagnosis is central to guiding effective antimicrobial treatment. Blood cultures remain the gold standard for identifying bloodstream infections. Improving laboratory turnaround time for both organism identification and antimicrobial susceptibility testing is therefore critically important for improving patient outcomes and reducing sepsis-related mortality.

  • Dr. Lisa Cameron named Western Massey Fellow

    July 11, 2025
    Congratulations to Dr. Lisa Cameron who has been named a Western Massey Fellow from July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026. Western University and Massey College have partnered to create the Western Massey Fellowship Program, offering two prestigious fellowship positions each year to Western faculty members on sabbatical.