Chemical Pathology focuses on the study and investigation of the biochemical and molecular changes that occur as part of a disease process. The Department was established in 1983, as one of the few independent departments of Chemical Pathology in the world, with the mission to advance the science and practice of chemical pathology by education, research and clinical service.

The Department of Chemical Pathology has academic interests in several fields of studies. Among these are molecular diagnostics, plasma nucleic acid biology and applications, genomic basis of diseases, diagnostic applications of next-generation DNA sequencing, allergic diseases...