Podcasts

In recent years, biobanking has become increasingly vital to furthering the promise of precision medicine. However, academic, government and commercial biobanking operations have also come under increased pressure to balance their budgets and plan for long-term sustainability in the face of budget shortfalls and increased competition for limited research funding.

Dr. Husain Sattar, a well-known pathology educator to medical students, provides insights as to what a pathologist does, his story on why he chose the specialty of pathology, and advice he would give to medical students interested in exploring pathology.

In this CAPcast, Dr. Erik Zmuda discusses why it's important for laboratories to develop a method for evaluating temperature uniformity within biorepository storage units and how pathologists and laboratorians can confront the complex task of assembling the tools and methods for running a freezer mapping program on their own.