With more than 100 faculty, divided roughly equally between clinicians and scientists, the Department provides a rich training environment with close to 150 trainees. The Department is home to a residency program in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology (with a dedicated research track), two graduate training programs in Pathobiology and Molecular Oncology and Immunology, clinical fellowship programs in various subspecialties in Pathology, and numerous postdoctoral research opportunities in the areas of experimental pathology, immunology, and molecular oncology.
Our training programs are enriched by our location in a thriving medical center, serving a variety of public and private hospitals; by the local environment in Manhattan, with access to innumerable scientific collaborations at neighboring institutions; by our ties to the NYU main campus, with intellectual resources such as the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences; by our diverse mix of academic pathologists, basic scientists, and translational researchers, and by our collaborative spirit, which reflects a commitment to bring scientists, clinicians, and trainees together to create a thriving intellectual environment.
Over the past three years, we have added five new research faculty and ten clinical faculty, recruited from premier institutions. Happily, our research funding has grown by more than 50% since 2004, with over $25 million in annual research funding awarded to pathology faculty members for 2007, and we have acquired 7000 square feet of new laboratory space, bringing our total of new and newly renovated research space to more than 33,000 square feet.
Three fundamental principles unify our wide variety of clinical and research training opportunities: a commitment to individual mentoring, an emphasis on interdisciplinary collaboration, and an overarching desire to improve human health through patient care, through probing fundamental mechanisms underlying health and disease, and through clinical research.
