David L Rimm MD, PhD
Professor of Pathology; Director of Pathology Tissue Services; Director of Translational Pathology

Departments & Organizations
Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS): Molecular Cell Biology, Genetics and Development: Cytoskeleton and Cell Morphogenesis | Molecular Medicine, Pharmacology, and PhysiologyYale Medical Group
Cancer Center, Yale: Signal Transduction
Skin Diseases Research Center, Yale
Pathology: Cytology | Surgical Pathology | Pathology Research | Rimm Lab
Biography
Dr. David Rimm, is a Professor in the Department of Pathology at the Yale University School of Medicine. He completed an MD-PhD at Johns Hopkins University Medical School followed by a Pathology Residency at Yale and a Cytopathology Fellowship at the Medical College of Virginia. He is board certified in Anatomic Pathology and Cytopathology. At Yale since 1994, Dr. Rimm is the Director of Yale Pathology Tissue Services and the Yale Tissue Microarray Facility. He is also the Director of Medical Studies for Pathology. His lab group (15 researchers) focuses on quantitative pathology using the AQUA® technology invented in his lab with projects related to predicting response to therapy in breast cancer and predicting recurrence or metastasis in melanoma and lung cancer. He is currently supported by 9 grants from both public and private sources. He serves as a reviewer for the NIH and was a charter member of the Cancer Biomarkers Study Section. He is an editorial board member for 7 pathology journals and a member of the pathology committee for TransALLTO and TEACH (cooperative groups or therapeutic clinical trials). He is an author of over 220 peer-reviewed papers and 8 patents and was the scientific co-founder of HistoRx, a digital pathology company and Metamark Genetics, a prognostic determinant company.
Education
- M.D., Johns Hopkins University , 1989
- Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University , 1989
Selected Publication
- Scott KL, Nogueira C, Heffernan TP, van Doorn R, Dhakal S, Hanna JA, Min C, Jaskelioff M, Xiao Y, Wu CJ, Cameron LA, Perry SR, Zeid R, Feinberg T, Kim M, Vande Woude G, Granter SR, Bosenberg M, Chu GC, Depinho RA, Rimm DL, Chin L. (2011) Proinvasion metastasis drivers in early-stage melanoma are oncogenes, Cancer Cell 20:92-103
Latest Honor and Recognition
- StarwoodCommitment Award 2004(2004) , Greenwich Breast Cancer Alliance
Articles

Winter 2007
Sharing a home, a family and science—two alumni try to make a difference
Jonathan and Bonnie Rothberg share not only a home and family but also a passion for probing the mysteries of the human...
Winter 2002
Targeting cancer by subtype
Drawing from an archive of 3 million tissue samples, Yale investigators are applying the latest in microarray...
Spring 1999
Donaghue Foundation selects five investigators for long-term support
Five researchers have been awarded $100,000-a-year, five-year grants from the Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue...
Autumn 2005
New target for melanoma
Using a technology devised at Yale five years ago, researchers have found what may be a new target for treatment of...

Winter 2004
On tumor’s surface, a telltale molecule
The little white grains that sweeten our cereal at breakfast are usually all we have in mind when we speak of “sugar.”...



