Welcome to the Veterinary Pathobiology Service Center for the Special Services Dermatopathology Lab and the International Veterinary Renal Pathology Service Lab (IVRPS).

The Dermatopathology Specialty Service Lab provides quality interpretation of skin biopsy specimens from veterinary dermatologists, general veterinary clinicians, and university veterinary teaching hospitals by a dermatopathologist (a board-certified veterinary pathologist who has specialized in dermatopathology).

The International Veterinary Renal Pathology Service Lab's mission is to improve health care for individual patients with kidney disease and generate new knowledge about renal diseases in animals by expertly performing thorough pathologic evaluations of kidney specimens obtained from dogs and cats, and other animals.

The work performed by the International Veterinary Renal Pathology Service (IVRPS) is centered around the following operational goals:

• To perform histologic, ultrastructural, and immunohistologic examinations of kidneys that will assist veterinarians, especially nephrologists and specialists in academic and private practices, with the evaluation of their patients with kidney disease.
• To promptly communicate pathologic findings and their implications with each patient’s attending clinician(s).
• To collect detailed clinical information about the features, course, response to treatment, and outcome of pathologically well-defined kidney diseases in animals and integrate the information with the pathologic findings.
• To generate and maintain a database containing the clinical and pathologic information collected about pathologically well-defined kidney diseases in animals.
• To use the resources of the IVRPS to facilitate retrospective and prospective investigations that will advance understanding of the causes, treatment, and prevention of renal diseases in animals.