Department of Laboratory Medicine

The Department of Laboratory Medicine at Yale has a long and proud tradition of providing leading edge clinical care, outstanding biomedical research, and comprehensive education in our field. Its roots can be traced back to the work of John Peters, who, as head of the Metabolic Division of the Department of Medicine in the 1920's and 30's, established methodologies for the rigorous examination of the chemical composition of blood and urine that brought quantitative discipline to the study of human metabolism. Along with Donald Van Slyke, he published the seminal volumes Quantitative Clinical Chemistry, Methods and Interpretations in 1931-32 that helped to launch the modern clinical laboratory. It is this tradition of excellence, innovation, and evidence-based inquiry that drives the Department today in all aspects of our mission.

News & Events

• Tattersall receives MERIT Award from NIAID 
• Hodsdon wins the Ellis Benson Award 
• Snyder Chair of the Board of Directors of the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) 
• Howe elected as President of the American Board of Clinical Chemistry
• Kavathas wins the Liza Cariaga-Lo Faculty Award
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Chair's Welcome

The Department of Laboratory Medicine has a long and proud tradition of providing leading edge clinical care, outstanding biomedical research, and comprehensive education in our field. We hope that our website reflects both where we are today and what we hope to achieve. more...

New Lab Building

In 2010, the clinical laboratories will be moving to a new building on Park Street, which will connect directly to the new Cancer Center under construction.

55 Park Street

The goal of Yale Center of Excellence in Molecular Hematology is to facilitate ongoing collaborative research designed to understand and manipulate gene expression and regulation. more...

The Immune Monitoring Core Facility provides a core resource for clinical and translational research protocols that involve immunotherapy and/or that affect the human immune system. more...