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Penn Medicine Cancer Cell Therapy Pioneer Carl June, MD, Receives the Sanford...
World renowned cancer cell therapy pioneer Carl June, MD, the Richard W. Vague Professor in Immunotherapy in the department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine in the Perelman School of Medicine at...
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Penn Medicine Awarded Nearly $7 Million for First Year of Contract to Study...
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, has selected Penn Medicine as one of five sites across the country to serve as a Center of...
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Penn Researchers Uncover Link Between Racial, Gender and Socioeconomic...
A new study from researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania found significant disparities in the use of sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors, a class...
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Immunotherapy Alone Extended Life for Metastatic Lung Cancer Patients with...
Real-word evidence is suggesting, for the first time, the most beneficial treatment courses that could help extend the lives of patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer, according to...
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Penn Study Suggests Those Who Had COVID-19 May Only Need One Vaccine Dose
People who have recovered from COVID-19 had a robust antibody response after the first mRNA vaccine dose, but little immune benefit after the second dose, according to new research from the Penn...
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Gene Therapy Shows Promise in Initial Trial for Patients with Childhood...
A new gene therapy for one of the most common forms of congenital blindness was safe and improved patients’ vision, according to initial data from a clinical trial led by researchers at the Scheie Eye...
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Penn Study Finds Reassuring Data on Common Heart Valve Procedure, MitraClip
A retrospective study led by researchers from Penn Medicine found that with MitraClip for treatment of secondary mitral regurgitation (MR), a heart disease associated with problems in the left...
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Study Helps Unravel Why Young, Pregnant Women Develop Heart Failure Similar...
Researchers at Penn Medicine have identified more genetic mutations that strongly predispose younger, otherwise healthy women to peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM), a rare condition characterized by...
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Preventing Evictions Remains Critical to Controlling COVID-19, Study Finds
Renter protection policies that have curbed mass evictions during the COVID-19 pandemic have played a key role in preventing the spread of SARS-CoV-2 in U.S. cities, according to a new study published...
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Ingredient in Indian Long Pepper Shows Promise Against Brain Cancer in Animal...
Piperlongumine, a chemical compound found in the Indian Long Pepper plant (Piper longum), is known to kill cancerous cells in many tumor types, including brain tumors. Now an international team...
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Less is More for the Next Generation of CAR T Cells
When researchers from Penn Medicine found that many patients with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) treated with the investigational chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy targeting the...
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What Parkinson’s Disease Patients Reveal About How Art is Experienced and Valued
Art appreciation is considered essential to human experience. While taste in art varies depending on the individual, cognitive neuroscience can provide clues about how viewing art affects our neural...
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Three Penn Medicine Faculty Members Among Six Penn Experts Elected to...
Six members of the University of Pennsylvania faculty, including three from the Perelman School of Medicine, have been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. They join more than 250...
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Three Penn Medicine Faculty Among New National Academy of Sciences Members
Three faculty members at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania — including two in Cell and Developmental Biology — have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences...
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Penn Medicine and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia to Host Symposium on...
Penn Medicine and CHOP will host a virtual event that will bring together cell and gene therapy leaders from the two institutions and around the world to discuss the latest achievements in the field,...
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$3.5 Million Grant Supports Effort Led by Penn Medicine to Diversify...
The Pennsylvania Department of Health’s Commonwealth Universal Research Enhancement (CURE) program announced it will award a $3.5 million grant to Penn Medicine researchers and community partners to...
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New Emergency Department Program Enables Patients to Recover at Home Safely
A new service piloted at Penn Medicine allowed a proportion of patients to avoid hospitalization by providing them with greater support after visiting the emergency department. The vast majority of the...
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New Method Identifies Tau Aggregates Occurring in Healthy Body Structures
It turns out that not all build-ups of tau protein are bad, and a team of researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania developed a method to show that. Using...
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Awards & Accolades: April 2021
Learn how Penn clinicians and researchers are being honored by their peers.
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Penn Study Reveals How Opioid Supply Shortages Shape Emergency Department...
When evaluating the opioid crisis, research reveals that external factors – such as the volume of pre-filled syringes, or a default number of opioid tablets that could easily be ordered at discharge...
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