UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY
- TENNIS CT ROAD
CB2 1QP CAMBRIDGE, CAMBRIDGESHIRE
Phone: +44 (0)1223 333690
Fax: 44 (0)1223 333346
E-mail: Send messagewww.path.cam.ac.uk
Short profile:
The Department of Pathology is one of the largest Departments in the School of Biological Sciences, and a leading research institution with a yearly research income of... The Department's research seeks to understand - and so ultimately arrest and reverse - disease processes of medical and social significance. The work of the Department is organised into five Divisions: Cell and Molecular Pathology, Immunology, Microbiology and Parasitology, Virology and Molecular Histopathology, split between the University site and Addenbrooke's Hospital, as well as undertaking cross-disciplinary research with colleagues at Research Institutes including the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research and the Hutchison-MRC Institute for Cancer Research.
Detailed description:
The Department also has a major yearly commitment in the teaching and training to over 800 undergraduate students of medicine and of veterinary and natural science. In its research laboratories it provides training for over 70 graduate students. Members of the Department also contribute, together with colleagues in the National Health Service and Health Protection Agency, to provision of diagnostic services within Addenbrooke's Hospital and the Anglia Region. In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise the Department staff featured in 5 Units of Assessment, due to the breadth of the Department’s interests.
The Department’s submission contributed to over half of the University’s submission to the Infection and Immunology Panel and a third of the submission to the Cancer Panel. Between 35% and 45% of the profile of these submissions was graded as 4* (world-leading), and 80% – 85% in 4* plus 3* (internationally excellent or higher). All were ranked either first or second in the UK in the Times Higher Education analysis of these profiles.
In the Teaching Quality Assessment of 2000, the last year in which comprehensive rather than selective teaching assessments were carried out in UK Universities, Pathology was grouped with the Departments of Biochemistry and Genetics in the Molecular Biosciences Unit of Assessment and scored 24/24.
Keywords:
Biological Sciences School, educational research institution, Molecular Pathology, Cell Pathology, Immunology, Microbiology, Parasitology, Virology, Molecular Histopathology, Addenbrooke's Hospital