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Choosing Personal Exercise Goals, Then Tackling Them Immediately is Key to...
When people set their own exercise goals – and then pursue them immediately – it’s more likely to result in lasting positive changes, according to a new study at the Perelman School of Medicine at the...
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Researchers Discover Test to Predict Which Patients with Rare Blood Disease...
New research has uncovered a precision medicine test using blood proteins to identify a novel patient subgroup of idiopathic multicentric Castleman disease (iMCD), a rare blood disorder, who are more...
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Engineering CAR T Cells to Deliver Endogenous RNA Wakes Solid Tumors to...
A new study from Penn Medicine, published online in Cell, demonstrates that RN7SL1, a naturally occurring RNA, can activate the body’s own natural T cells to seek out the cancer cells that have escaped...
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Penn Medicine to Require All Health System Employees to Receive COVID-19 Vaccine
The University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS) will require all employees and clinical staff to be vaccinated against COVID-19 by no later than Sept. 1, 2021. The decision, announced May 19, 2021,...
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Penn Presbyterian Medical Center Trauma Division Launches Partnership with...
The program, known as the Naval Strategic Health Alliance for Readiness and Performance, is designed to provide sustained experiences in all aspects of trauma care – from surgery to anesthesiology to...
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2022 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Awarded to Penn Medicine mRNA...
Drew Weissman, MD, PhD, the Roberts Family Professor of Vaccine Research in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and Katalin Karikó, PhD, an adjunct professor of...
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Hospitals with More Inpatient Nurse Practitioners Linked to Better Outcomes,...
Hospitals that employ more inpatient nurse practitioners (NPs) have lower surgical mortality, higher patient satisfaction, and lower costs of care, according to a new study published today in Medical...
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Awards & Accolades: August 2021
Learn how Penn clinicians and researchers are being honored by their peers.
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Patients with Multiple Sclerosis Show Robust T-Cell Responses to mRNA...
New research shows that Multiple Sclerosis (MS) patients undergoing anti-CD20 (aCD20) treatment – which depletes the B cells that contribute to the MS attacks – are able to mount robust T-cell...
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Penn Medicine Awarded $6 Million to Advance Understanding of Human Genome...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has selected Penn Medicine as one of 25 award recipients across 30 sites in the United States to serve as Impact of Genomic Variation on Function (IGVF)...
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Penn Researchers Use Unique Imaging Technology to Map Cells Tied to...
New “maps” of hundreds of thousands of cells related to inflammatory bowel disease shed greater light on their effects on intestinal tissues through a newly utilized imaging technique called “imaging...
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Gun Violence Exposure Associated with Higher Rates of Mental Health-Related...
Exposure to neighborhood gun violence is associated with increased odds of mental health-related pediatric Emergency Department (ED) visits among children living within four to five blocks of a...
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Diabetes Medications Linked to Glaucoma Prevention
A popular class of diabetes medications called GLP-1R agonists (Trulicity and Rybelsus) may also protect against glaucoma in diabetic patients, according to a new study led by researchers in the Scheie...
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Black Women Face Three-Fold Increased Risk of Triple Negative Breast Cancers
An analysis of nearly 200,000 patients who received mammograms between 2006 and 2015 across three U.S. health systems underscores the importance of understanding the heterogeneity of breast cancer risk...
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Inaugural Elaine Redding Brinster Prize Awarded to Scientist Who Sparked...
The Institute for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has awarded C. David Allis, PhD, an American molecular biologist, with the inaugural Elaine Redding Brinster Prize in Science...
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Penn Medicine and Wistar Awarded $11.7 Million Melanoma Research Grant from...
The five-year award will fund three new melanoma research projects that translate fundamental laboratory discoveries made in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and The...
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South Jersey’s First Proton Therapy Center Takes Giant Step Forward with...
When the facility opens in fall 2022, it will be the first proton therapy center in South Jersey and one of just 42 in the United States. This new, suburban community location provides patients added...
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Penn Medicine Serving Up Hospitality, Healthy Cafe Options at New Pavilion
Visitors and staff at Penn Medicine’s new Pavilion, opening this October, will have food and drink options that include national celebrity chef Tom Colicchio’s Root & Sprig and Philadelphia coffee...
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Backed by Penn Medicine Research, National Task Force Recommends Removing...
A national task force announced Thursday that it is recommending the immediate implementation of a new diagnostic equation for measuring kidney function, which advocates say will promote health equity...
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Penn mRNA Scientists Drew Weissman and Katalin Karikó Receive 2021 Lasker...
As mRNA-based SARS-CoV-2 vaccines are deployed to protect hundreds of millions of people across the world and point the way to end the deadly global COVID-19 pandemic, the University of Pennsylvania...
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