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University of Pennsylvania and Novartis Form Alliance to Expand Use of...
In an alliance aimed at bringing a new, personalized immunotherapy approach to patients with a wide variety of cancers, the University of Pennsylvania and Novartis announced today an exclusive global...
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Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Selected to Lead U.S....
The Department of Health and Human Services has selected the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) as one of five hospitals that will take part in a nationwide initiative designed to train...
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Penn Medicine Professor Selected for Emerging Leaders Fund Grant from the...
Puentes de Salud co-founders Steve Larson, MD, associate professor, Emergency Medicine, and Matthew O'Brien MD, MSc, were recently selected for an Emerging Leaders Fund grant from the Claneil...
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Penn Study Finds with Vacant Lots Greened, Residents Feel Safer
Greening vacant lots may make neighborhood residents feel safer and may be associated with reductions in certain gun crimes, according to a new study from the Perelman School of Medicine at the...
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Composite Nanofibers Developed by Penn Scientists Next Chapter in Orthopaedic...
Bioengineered replacements for tendons, ligaments, the meniscus of the knee, and other tissues require re-creation of the exquisite architecture of these tissues in three dimensions.
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Penn Medicine's Rita K. Adeniran Receives Highly Competitive National Nurse...
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, has been named one of only 20 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Executive Nurse Fellows from across the country for 2012.
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Penn Study Shows Different Anesthetics Affects Sleep Cycles In Different Ways
In the ongoing quest to find the exact way that anesthetics interact with the central nervous system, anesthesiology researchers have been examining whether the state induced by anesthetics resembles...
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Rebooting the System: Immune Cells Repair Damaged Lung Tissues after Flu...
There’s more than one way to mop up after a flu infection. Now, researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania report this week in Nature Immunology that a...
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Penn-Developed Online Informed Consent Tool Could Boost Number of Patients in...
A new multimedia informed consent tool accessed via the Internet may make it easier for cancer patients to understand and feel comfortable enrolling in clinical trials, according a study conducted by...
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Severely Impaired Schizophrenics Enter Dynamic Cycle of Recovery after...
Cognitive therapy has dynamically improved the most neurologically impaired, poorly functioning schizophrenic patients. For the first time, researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the...
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Penn Researchers Receive $9 Million NIH Grant to Study Relationship Between...
Daniel J. Rader, MD, chief, Division of Translational Medicine and Human Genetics, and Edward Morrisey, PhD, professor of Medicine and Cell and Developmental Biology, Perelman School of Medicine, and...
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Abnormal Parkinson's Disease Protein Induces Degeneration in Healthy Nerve...
Research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has found that small amounts of misshapened brain proteins can be taken up by healthy neurons and replicated within them...
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6th Annual International Translational Medicine Symposium Held at Penn
A unique gathering of international experts will be charting the unfolding landscape of how to bring personalized medicines to the consumer. Thought leaders from academic medical centers, government,...
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Penn Team Links Schizophrenia Genetics to Disruption in How Brain Processes...
Recent studies have identified many genes that may put people with schizophrenia at risk for the disease. But, what links genetic differences to changes in altered brain activity in schizophrenia is...
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Cardiovascular Disease Linked to Evolutionary Changes That May Have Protected...
Can a bird have a heart attack? A recent paper published by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania suggests that cardiovascular disease may be an unfortunate...
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Penn Assistant Professor Named Educator of the Year by Association of...
Smith Apisarnthanarax, MD, Assistant Professor and Associate Residency Program Director, Department of Radiation Oncology, was named Educator of the Year by the Association of Residents in Radiation...
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Institute of Medicine Elects Three New Members from Penn
Three professors from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have been elected members of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), one of the nation's highest honors in biomedicine.
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Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
In the nearly four decades since the performance of the first human heart transplant in 1967, heart transplantation has changed from an experimental operation to an established treatment for advanced...
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Ceremonial Ground Breaking Celebration for New Outpatient Medical Facility in...
Embarking on one the largest capital projects in the history of Pennsylvania Hospital, Penn Medicine will celebrate the official groundbreaking of its new Penn Medicine Washington Square (PMWS)...
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Penn Study Explains Paradox of Insulin Resistance Genetics
Obesity and insulin resistance are almost inevitably associated with increases in lipid accumulation in the liver, a serious disease that can deteriorate to hepatitis and liver failure. A real paradox...
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