USCAP Gives High Ranking to NYU Department of Pathology for Scientific Abstracts Accepted

In the most recent ranking for the number of first-authored scientific abstracts accepted for presentation by the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP) at their upcoming annual meeting, the NYU Department of Pathology has again been included in the top 30 of all institutions from which submissions were received. In preparation for their March 2009 meeting in Boston, the USCAP received a record of almost 2,800 scientific abstracts from over 430 different medical school programs and academic institutions. This represents an increase of 16% from last year's record submissions, so the Academy noted that the cut-off score for acceptance of the blinded peer-reviewed abstracts was remarkably high. The USCAP is one of the oldest pathology societies in North America and is generally viewed as the premier academic society of anatomic, surgical, and diagnostic molecular pathology. The scientific offerings from the annual meetings are also published in the two journals of the Academy, Modern Pathology and Laboratory Investigation, both part of the Nature Publishing Group.