Institute of Pathology was established in 1965 as Indian Registry of Pathology (IRP) with the major aim of promoting collection and distribution of teaching material in pathology and conducting research in diseases of national importance. In view of its multifarious activities and expanded scope, the IRP was re-designated as Institute of Pathology in 1980 to act as resource centre for Modern Pathology, Biotechnology, Basic and Translational Research with the additional mandate to integrate research output to the clinical practice bringing lab to bed. The current thrust areas for research at Institute of Pathology are Tumour Biology, Infectious diseases, Stem Cell Biology and Environmental Toxicology. Considering the changes in disease pattern, newer areas have been included viz., Diabetes, Coronary Artery Disease and Obesity. Institute has excellent state of art facilities for providing specialized pathology services and carrying basic and applied research involving electron microscopy, flow cytometry, automated image analysis, tissue micro-array, confocal laser microscopy, DNA sequencing/micro-array, HPLC, GC, and Direct Analysis in Real Time (DART) Mass spectrometer. Molecular strategies such as genomics, proteomics and Bioinformatics are used for identification of biomarkers for screening, early diagnosis, prognosis and prediction of drug resistance/response, vaccine development and delineation of patho-biology of various diseases. Human resource development is an integral activity at Institute of Pathology through training technicians, pathologists and biomedical scientists through WHO in service training programs, DNB and Ph.D.