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Ali Akalin, MD, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, UMass Chan Medical School

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Ali Akalin, MD, PhD

Research Focus - Investigation of Diagnostic and Prognostic Biomarkers for Cancers of Different Organs with a Focus on Lung and Gynecologic Neoplasm

Investigate new diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers for lung tumors
Investigate new diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers for gynecologic tumors
Investigate new techniques to improve the diagnostic yield in fine needle aspirations
Characterization of lung tumors by infrared spectral histopathology

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Akalin A, Ergin A, Remiszewski S, et al. Resolving interobserver discrepancies in lung cancer diagnoses by spectral histopathology. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2019;143(2):157-173.

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