Pathology Research

The pathology research team at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh has a wide range of interests derived from all areas of pediatric diagnostic pathology.

Listed below are some of the current research activities:

• Pathology of pediatric neoplasia: congenital melanocytic neoplasia
• Pediatric Testicular Pathology; Disorders of Sexual Development
• Pediatric pathology of transplantation: liver, small bowel, heart, lung and kidney
• Epstein-Barr virus-related diseases
• Pediatric solid and soft tissue tumors (including, but not limited to, Ewing sarcoma/primitive neuroectodermal tumor, rhabdomyosarcoma, neuroblastoma, Wilms tumor and lymphoma)
• Pediatric liver diseases
• Pediatric brain tumors
• Histiocytosis and dendritic cell diseases, including Langerhans cell histiocytosis
• Molecular diagnosis of pediatric infectious diseases
• Congenital heart disease
• Learn more about the Division of Pediatric Pathology

Researchers

• Miguel Reyes-Múgica, MD
  Marjory K. Harmer Endowed Chair in Pediatric Pathology
  Chief of Pathology and Head of Laboratories
  Professor of Pathology
• Dipanjan Basu, PhD
  Research Assistant Professor
• Hannah Creager, PhD, D(ABMM)
  Medical Director, Microbiology
• Steven F. Dobrowolski, PhD
  Associate Professor of Pathology
• Ana María Gómez, MD, PhD
  Assistant Professor of Pathology
• Cláudia M. Salgado, MD, PhD
  Assistant Professor of Pathology
• Qian Wang, MD, PhD
  Assistant Professor of Pathology
• Sarah Wheeler, PhD, FACB, CC
  Assistant Professor of Pathology
• Eduardo Zambrano Tola, MD, MSc, FCAP, FASCP
  Professor of Pathology