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Robert Darrell Cardiff is an educator, academic surgical pathologist and scientist who is best known internationally for his numerous contributions to the comparative pathobiology of mouse and human cancers. He has combined digital pathology and experience in both human and murine disease to assist the scientific community with the interpretation of disease in the modern era of genetically modified mouse models of cancer.

He is a distinguished professor emeritus at University of California, Davis, where he served as the chair of the School of Medicine’s Department of Pathology from 1990 to 1996. He founded the UCD Graduate Program for Medical Informatics and UCD Center for Comparative Medicine’s Mutant Mouse Pathology Facility (MMPF). Serving as the director of the latter, he developed a digitized archive of microscopic slides from over 100,000 mutant mice from over 200 laboratories from in 25 countries based on a database and whole slide imaging that is shared world-Wide.

Cardiff’s research has been focused on breast cancer and experimental pathology of mouse mammary tumorigenesis. As a surgical comparative pathologist, he has provided interpretations of experimental pathology in genetically modified mice for investigators around the world. He has co-authored or written over 350 papers in science, education, management, scientific history and informatics.