Department of Molecular Pathology
Pathology is concerned with the essential nature, causes and development of abnormal conditions, as well as the structural and functional changes that result from the disease processes. With advances in molecular biology, investigating the nature of abnormal tissue by identifying the abnormal molecular events and factors that are responsible for producing the diseased tissue is now possible. For example, many malignant tumors can be assessed by diagnostic tests that detect the presence of either high levels of a tumor-associated gene product or an altered gene product in the cancer specimens.