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Welcome to the UAB Department of Pathology website. The UAB Department of Pathology provides extensive clinical services and teaching while maintaining large and productive research programs. Currently, the Department has over $25 million per year in extramural research funding and our clinical services, including inpatient, outpatient and outreach, completes over 6 million procedures per year. Our training programs are among the finest in the country and our faculty have achieved national and international recognition in service, teaching and research.

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Transition to Theme-Based Programs

The graduate program in Molecular and Cellular Pathology within the Department of Pathology has been highly successful and currently includes over 60 PhD students.  These students have entered the program either through direct admission by the department or through the Integrative Biomedical Sciences (IBS) program, a consortium of four departments; Pathology, Physiology and Biophysics, Pharmacology and Toxicology and Environmental Health Sciences.  As part of a realignment of the graduate program, we are now transitioning to theme based programs under the umbrella of the Graduate Biomedical Sciences (GBS) Program at UAB. Departmental programs will cease to exist once all the currently enrolled graduate students complete their training and all new students beginning in 2010 will be members of a theme-based program.

The GBS includes eight themes that represent a large majority of the biomedical research faculty at UAB. Students will enter the GBS and have the opportunity to choose from any faculty member within the GBS for their research focus, and will be able to make final decisions on their theme affiliation after starting their training.  Beginning with the class entering in the Fall of 2010 there will no longer be direct admits into the Department of Pathology and the IBS program will be transitioned to a new theme named Pathobiology & Molecular Medicine (PBMM).  Faculty within the GBS can participate in multiple themes and most faculty currently participating in the Molecular and Cellular Pathology Graduate Program will be affiliated with the PBMM theme or the new Cancer Biology theme.  PBMM is the largest theme within the GBS with over 125 affiliated faculty and the Cancer Biology theme offers a new program for students and faculty and is expected to grow dramatically due to the current focus on expanding cancer research at UAB.  The overall goal of the new theme based graduate programs is to attract top students and provide faculty more latitude by participating in multiple themes or in research focus areas developed within the individual themes.  An overview of the GBS and its theme based programs can be found at: http://www.uab.edu/gbs/