Jon Stanley Morrow PhD, MD
Raymond Yesner Professor of Pathology; Chair, Department of Pathology; Chief of Pathology at YNHH

Departments & Organizations
Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS): Molecular Cell Biology, Genetics and Development: Cytoskeleton and Cell Morphogenesis | Molecular Medicine, Pharmacology, and PhysiologyYale Medical Group
Cancer Center, Yale: Signal Transduction
Pathology: Autopsy | Surgical Pathology | Pathology Research
Pediatric Pathology
Signal Transduction
Research Interests
Hemolytic Disease; Degenerative Brain Disease; spectrin; Autopsy Pathology; Renal Pathology; Medical Informatics; Computer Aided Instruction (CAI); Telepathology
Clinical Interests
Hematologic and renal disorders; kidney cancer; colon cancer; breast cancer
Education
- Ph.D., Indiana University School of Medicine , 1974
- M.D., Yale University , 1976
Selected Publication
- Glantz, S.B., Cianci, C.D., Iyer, R., Pradhan, D., Wang, K.K., and Morrow, J.S. (2007). Sequential degradation of alphaII and betaII spectrin by calpain in glutamate or maitotoxin-stimulated cells. Biochem. 46(2):502-13.
Articles
Winter 2002
Targeting cancer by subtype
Drawing from an archive of 3 million tissue samples, Yale investigators are applying the latest in microarray...
Autumn 2010
Lincoln’s gait, errant gene
Abraham Lincoln’s gawky gait may have been the result of a neurodegenerative disorder that causes a loss of...
Autumn 2001
From autopsy suite, a treasure trove of "post-mortemism"
Before photography became the standard for capturing images of important anatomical findings, pathology departments...
Summer 2000
Faculty Practice elects governors
The Yale Faculty Practice, the multi-specialty academic medical practice composed of over 650 School of Medicine...

Winter 2009
Pathologist honored with symposium
Michael Kashgarian, M.D. ’58, HS ’63, was the centerpiece of a Yale symposium in October, but the words of praise for...
Fall 1998
Pathology chair becomes department’s first Yesner Professor
Jon S. Morrow, M.D., professor and chair of pathology, and professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology,...
Spring 1999
With an eye for detail, an expert on the lung shares his life’s work
In a basement office in Brady Memorial Laboratory, the evidence of a half-century of lung cancer research clutters the...

Spring 2006
The final chapter
Shortly after lunch on a midsummer’s day, Charles Slater felt ill. Complaining of indigestion, the 55-year-old...
Spring 2000
Deconstructing education
The breathtaking discoveries of the last three decades and rapid change across all of medicine have called traditional...



