Carolyn Compton

“I was looking for a career that would allow me to sit at the interface between biomedical science and medicine, learning from one to inform the other,” says Carolyn of her decision to pursue pathology. As a gastrointestinal disease specialist with interests in colorectal cancer, medical prediction, biospecimen and biobanking science and biomarker development, she has authored over 500 scientific publications, holds professorships at multiple institutions, and has leadership roles in numerous projects for the advancement of precision medicine.

Part of the Power List 2015

Who are the most influential laboratory medicine professionals?
That’s the question we posed to ourselves – and then to you – over two months ago, ahead of open nominations and a painstaking judging process. Here, without further ado, we celebrate the answer.

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