Paul Killen, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Campus Address:
M7520 MSRBI 0602
1301 Catherine Road
Ann Arbor, Michigan  48109-0602
Phone:  734/647-2921
Fax: 734/764-4308
pkillen@umich.edu

Clinical Interests

Renal Pathology, Electron Microscopy

Research Interests

Dr. Killen's research interests include basement membranes are specialized extracellular matrices which provide a substratum for cell attachment and thereby influence the differentiated phenotype of cells.

For more information about Dr. Killen's  Research Laboratory, click here.

Brief Biography

Dr. Killen received an M.D. (1980) and Ph.D. (Pathology)(1985) from the University of Washington, Seattle. After a year of residency in Internal Medicine, Dr. Killen completed residency training in Anatomic Pathology at the University of Washington, Seattle Hospitals, followed by Post-Doctoral Fellowship training at the Laboratory of Developmental Biology and Anomalies, at the National Institutes of Health. He served as Acting Director of the Renal Biopsy Service and Instructor in the Department of Pathology at the University of Washington, Seattle prior to joining the faculty of the Department of Pathology at the University of Michigan as Assistant Professor in 1987. In 1994, Dr. Killen was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor and in 2002, he assumed the Directorship of the Electron Microscopy Laboratory. Dr. Killen is board certified in Anatomic Pathology.