University of Iowa Diagnostic Laboratories (UIDL) | Carver College of Medicine

University of Iowa Diagnostic Laboratories

The standard for testing excellence.

UIDL is dedicated to providing excellence in laboratory testing and improving the quality of patient care provided by the physician offices, hospitals, laboratories, and medical facilities we serve.

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About University of Iowa Diagnostic Laboratories

UIDL, affiliated with UI Health Care, is a national reference laboratory offering academic expertise in specialty anatomic pathology services, advanced molecular genetic testing, and rapid renal biopsy consults. We offer very competitive turnarounds. All pathologists are available for immediate consultation by phone or email.

All of our pathologists are academic and hold professional appointments in the University of Iowa Department of Pathology, Carver College of Medicine. Each is involved in daily patient care as well as teaching in a renowned residency program and strong medical school.

Our established culture of excellent patient care is our prime objective. Emphasis is placed on practical solutions for specimen workups. The most expedient and sure method of diagnosis is utilized ensuring high quality yet cost-effective patient care.

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2.5 m

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News

Dr. Kai Rogers Receives a Grant Award through the NIH R25/UE5 Program

Sunday, August 11, 2024

Dr. Kai Rogers, a resident in the Pathology physician-scientist training program (PSTP), has received an NIH/NINDS grant award through its R25/UE5 funding mechanism. The University of Iowa R25/UE5 program, entitled “Carver College of Medicine Clinical Neuroscientist Training Program (CNS-TP)” is led by Drs. George Richerson and Kumar Narayanan in the Department of Neurology. This program acknowledges the critical need for physicians to be involved in basic research on human brain disease and provides direct support toward this goal.

Research on Intravital Imaging of Influenza-specific Lung T Resident Memory by Stephanie van de Wall, Scott Anthony, Lisa Hancox and Lecia Epping in the Harty Lab was Recently Published in Immunity

Friday, August 9, 2024

Stephanie van de Wall, Ph.D. was the lead author of the study. Co-authors include Scott Anthony, Lisa Hancox and Lecia Epping from the Harty lab, Vladimir P. Badovinac Ph.D., also from U. Iowa Pathology as well as Ryan Langlois (U. Minnesota) and Dietmar Zehn (Technical University of Munich). The work was supported by grants from the NIH to VPB and JTH.

Recent Publications

Week of October 29, 2024

Surviving septic patients endotyped with a functional assay demonstrate active immune responses.
Price AD, Becker ER, Barrios EL, Mazer MB, McGonagill PW, Bergmann CB, Goodman MD, Gould RW, Rao M, Polcz VE, Kucaba TA, Walton AH, Miles S, Xu J, Liang M, Loftus TJ, Efron PA, Remy KE, Brakenridge SC, Badovinac VP, Griffith TS, Moldawer LL, Hotchkiss RS, Caldwell CC.Front Immunol. 2024 Oct 14;15:1418613. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2024.1418613. eCollection 2024.

SARS-CoV-2 seropositivity among healthcare professionals in a rural state.
Wright B, Kang D, Schuette A, Ward MA, Krasowski MD, Scherer AM, Diekema DJ, Cavanaugh J, Herwaldt L.Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol. 2024 Oct 25;4(1):e190. doi: 10.1017/ash.2024.420. eCollection 2024.

Aldosterone-induced salt appetite requires HSD2 neurons.
Gasparini S, Peltekian L, McDonough MC, Mitchell CJ, Hefti M, Resch JM, Geerling JC.JCI Insight. 2024 Oct 24:e175087. doi: 10.1172/jci.insight.175087. Online ahead of print.

Week of October 22, 2024

Transient Eruption of Verrucous Keratoses During Encorafenib Therapy: Adverse Event or Paraneoplastic Phenomenon?
Marti AA, Willis MA, Liu V. Cutis. 2024 Sep;114(3):E17-E19. doi: 10.12788/cutis.1108.

Tissue resident memory T cells contribute to protectionagainst heterologousSARS-CoV-2 challenge.
Odle A, Kar M, Verma AK, Sariol A, Meyerholz DK, Suthar MS, Wong LR, Perlman S.JCI Insight. 2024 Oct 15:e184074. doi: 10.1172/jci.insight.184074. Online ahead of print.