The Division of Investigative Pathology is the basic research arm for the Department of Pathology at Scott & White Clinic and Hospital and the Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine. It is located in the Cardiovascular Research and Cancer Research building (205) of the Central Texas Veterans Health Administration campus.

The faculty and personnel in the division study a wide-range of research topics and offer training events centered around the role of heat shock proteins in various human diseases and disorders including cancer, cardiovascular disease, neurodegenerative disorders, exercise immunophysiology and aging.

At the Division of Investigative Pathology we are focused on furthering our understanding of the chaperokine activity of heat shock proteins for the development of highly potent and effective heat shock protein-based immunotherapy. Heat shock proteins are highly abundant, stable proteins that possess the special property of binding peptides – small fragments of proteins found inside all cells. This property makes them suited as carrier molecules to sample the peptide antigens found inside cancer cells for use in vaccines to stimulate anti-tumor immunity and enhance immune surveillance.