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Welcome to the Department of Pathology

The McGill University Department of Pathology is located in the Duff Medical Building on the downtown University campus at the edge of splendid Mount Royal. The Department offers research training in a wide variety of areas such as carcinogenesis, mechanisms of respiratory diseases, molecular pathology and immunology, neoplasia and cell biology, cell differentiation, cell adhesion molecules, biomedical image processing, neurodegenerative disorders and opthalmic pathology. Research laboratories are located in the Duff Medical Building, the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre and McGill Teaching Hospitals.

Our Department in the News

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K A Tran; ...  M. Divangahi  BCG immunization induces CX3CR1hi effector memory T cells to provide cross-protection via IFN-γ-mediated trained immunity: Nat Immunol 24 Jan 15.

Farah H. Abdalbari; Elvis Martinez-Jaramillo ...Carlos M. Telleria:  Auranofin Induces Lethality Driven by Reactive Oxygen Species in High-Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer Cells. Cancers 2023, 15, 5136. https://doi.org/10.3390/
Sarah Tadhg Ferrier,Thupten TseringNader SadeghiAnthony ZeitouniJulia V. Burnier: Blood and saliva-derived ctDNA is a marker of residual disease after treatment and correlates with recurrence in human papillomavirus-associated head and neck cancer. Cancer Medicine V12(15) Agu 2023
Tsering T,Li MY,Chen YX, Nadeau A, Laskaris A, Abdouh M, Bustamante P, Burnier JV: 

EV-ADD, a database for EV-associated DNA in human liquid biopsy samples.

Sabrina J Ritch Carlos M Telleria The Transcoelomic Ecosystem and Epithelial Ovarian Cancer Dissemination

Zhang HR; Gomez A;  Messina-Pacheco J;....Zu-hua Gao: REG3A/REG3B promotes acinar to ductal metaplasia through binding to EXTL3 and activating the RAS-RAF-MEK-ERK signaling pathway

Julien LA, Michel RP, Auger M : Breast implant-associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma and effusions: A review with emphasis on the role of cytopathology. Cancer Cytopathol. 2020 Jan 3.

Pusztaszeri MP, Bongiovanni M, Brimo F: Do we need PD-L1 as a biomarker for thyroid cytologic and histologic specimens?  Cancer Cytopathol. 2019 Dec 10

Bustamante P1... Burnier JV.  Beta-blockers exert potent anti-tumor effects in cutaneous and uveal melanoma.  Cancer Med. 2019 Oct 7.

Ferreira SR...:  Prenatally androgenized female rats develop uterine hyperplasia when adult.  Mol Cell Endocrinol. 2019 Oct 4:110610.

Sharifi Z...Sabri S:  Antitumor Activity of a Binary EGFR/DNA Targeting Strategy Overcomes Resistance of Glioblastoma Stem cells to Temozolomide.  Clin Cancer Res. 2019 Sep 20

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