DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY

Who are we?

The Department of Pathology is an integrated academic and NHS department with laboratories at both the Bloomsbury and Hampstead campuses. Together with Haematology and Oncology, it forms the Division of Cancer Medicine. Academically, it is a joint department as part of the Royal Free and University College Medical School.

What do we do?

The prime objectives are to:

Provide hospital clinicians and general practitioners with a speedy, high quality diagnostic Histopathology and Cytopathology service.

Research

The department carries out research in several fields of Histopathology.

At the Bloomsbury site these are haematopathology, breast pathology, urology, and tumour biology;

At the Royal Free site these are hepatopathology , urology and renal disease, bone marrow transplantation and prion disease.  

Teaching

Provide a modern teaching programme to medical students and postgraduates.

Grants

The funding of the department is by endowed funds, the HEFCE , and the UCL Hospitals NHS Trust.   In addition there are grants from the Medical Research Council, the European Union, the Leukaemia Research Fund, Cancer Research UK, Action Research, local research funds and from commercial companies.

Staff:

Professor Gareth H Williams is the Academic Head of the Pathology Department with Dr Mary Falzon clinical head of the diagnostic service at Bloomsbury and Dr Julie Crow at Hampstead.

This page last modified 11 August, 2005 by f.moll@medsch.ucl.ac.uk