The Pathology Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (GPS) Program is one of the oldest graduate programs in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS). Offering MSc and PhD degrees, the GPS Program is centered on the downtown campus in the Duff Medical Building, where our main offices, classrooms and some of our research labs are located. Other research labs where graduate students conduct their experiments are located at the RI-MUHC, the Lady Davis Institute at the JGH, and the CHU Sainte-Justine.
Pathology is the specialized area of biomedical science that emphasizes the study of disease, and it is therefore one of the most multi-disciplinary fields of research. Investigators in a pathology department may be utilizing information and experimental techniques originally developed in almost any area of modern biology and, in return, may contribute new knowledge of benefit to many other disciplines. Research on disease may target any of the organ systems, in normal and abnormal conditions, and studies may be conducted from a structural, biochemical or functional perspective at any level, from the intact organism down to specific components of the individual cell.
The Graduate Program Director (GPD) is Dr. Carolyn Baglole, as of May 2024. We recognize and thank Dr. Edith Zorychta for her many years of tremendous service in this role!
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