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Penn Medicine Announces New Advanced Care Hospital Pavilion and Trauma Center...
Penn Medicine announced today plans to begin the second part of an expansion project that will transform and modernize the advanced care services provided at the Penn Presbyterian Medical Center (PPMC)...
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Penn Medicine's Daniel J. Rader, MD, Receives American Heart Association's...
Daniel J. Rader, MD, professor of Medicine and chief, Division of Translational Medicine and Human Genetics, at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, has been awarded the...
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Penn Medicine Expert to Receive American Heart Association's Lifetime...
Lance Becker, MD, a professor of Emergency Medicine and director of the Center for Resuscitation Science at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, will receive the American...
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Penn Medicine Contest Maps 1,400 Lifesaving AEDs Via Crowdsourcing Contest...
A crowdsourcing contest that sent hundreds of Philadelphians to locate and catalog the locations of AEDs throughout the nation's fifth largest city led to the identification of more than 1,400...
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Fat-derived Stem Cells Hold Potential for Regenerative Medicine
PHILADELPHIA — As researchers work on reconfiguring cells to take on new regenerative properties, a new review from Penn Medicine plastic surgeons sheds additional light on the potential power of...
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Chronically Critically Ill: Penn Physicians Discuss Patients' Regrets About...
In a new Perspective essay appearing in the November 8th issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, two physicians from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, discuss...
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Invitation to Cover: Health Policy After the 2012 Election
U.S. Representative Allyson Y. Schwartz, a leading health care reform expert and Pennsylvania’s only female congressional representative, will speak about these and other issues on Friday at the...
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NIH Awards Penn Scientists $10 million Over Five Years for Innovative...
James Eberwine, PhD, Elmer Holmes Bobst Professor of Pharmacology in the Perelman School of Medicine, and Junhyong Kim, PhD, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Professor of Biology in the School of Arts and...
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Targeting Downstream Proteins in Cancer-Causing Pathway Shows Promise in...
Using Myc-active neuroblastoma cancer cells, a team led by Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator M. Celeste Simon, Ph.D., scientific director for the Abramson Family Cancer Research...
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Invitation to Cover: Penn Medicine Launches Combat to Care Campaign to Help...
In recognition of Veteran’s Day this November, Penn Medicine proudly sponsors Joining Forces – a national initiative to heighten awareness about the health needs of our nation’s veterans, service...
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Penn Medicine Receives NIH Grant to Help Residents of Local Communities Move...
To help empower residents to shape the future of their communities, and explain the potential consequences associated with asbestos exposure, researchers at the Center of Excellence in Environmental...
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Penn Study Decodes Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Stem Cell Reprogramming
Now, thanks to some careful detective work by a team of scientists led by Kenneth Zaret, PhD, at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, researchers can better understand just how...
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Parkinson's Disease Protein Causes Disease Spread and Neuron Death in Healthy...
After several years of incremental study, researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania have been able to piece together important steps in how Parkinson's disease (PD)...
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Yeast Protein Breaks up Amyloid Fibrils and Disordered Protein Clumps In...
Heat Shock Protein Hsp104 could be developed to eliminate toxic clumps linked with neurodegenerative diseases.
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Penn's Long Term Relationship with The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Laid...
Penn recognizes the major role played by The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (LLS) in enabling these discoveries to be developed and tested in patients to the point that Penn was able to attract a...
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Penn Medicine Contest Challenges Philadelphians to Help Save Lives With Their...
A group of Penn Medicine researchers is set to save lives with cell phone cameras -- and they are challenging the public to help. The MyHeartMap Challenge, a month-long contest slated to take place...
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Pathway Identified in Human Lymphoma Points Way to New Blood Cancer Treatments
Research shows for the first time that the UPR is active in patients with human lymphomas and mice genetically bred to develop lymphomas.
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Penn Medicine Physician Awarded 2012 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Recipient by...
Parvati Ramchandani, MD, section chief, Genitourinary (GU) Radiology, Professor of Radiology and Surgery, was selected by the American Association for Women Radiologists (AAWR) as the 2012 recipient of...
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Penn-Temple Team Discovers What Keeps a Cell's Energy Source Going
In a new paper out this week in Nature Cell Biology, the same Penn-Temple team describe a new protein and its function. Like MICU1, this new protein, MCUR1, interacts physically with MCU, the uniporter...
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Penn Scientist Named First Director of New Center for Orphan Disease Research...
H. Lee Sweeney, Ph.D., the William Maul Measey Professor at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, has been named the inaugural director of Penn’s Center for Orphan Disease...
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