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How to Make Insulin-Producing Cells from Gut Cells
New Penn Medicine research describes how introducing three proteins that control the regulation of DNA in the nucleus -- called transcription factors -- into an immune-deficient mouse turned a specific...
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Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Ranked Among...
For the 17th year in a row, the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has ranked among the top five medical schools in the United States. According to the annual survey by U.S....
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Scheie Eye Institute at the University of Pennsylvania Awarded NIH Grant to...
Researchers at the Scheie Eye Institute, the department of Ophthalmology of the University of Pennsylvania have been awarded a five-year, 11.2 million-dollar grant from the National Institutes of...
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Protein Key to Cell Motility Might Stop Cancer Metastasis
“Cell movement is the basic recipe of life, and all cells have the capacity to move,” says Roberto Dominguez, PhD, professor of Physiology at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of...
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Nicotine Withdrawal Weakens Brain Connections Tied to Self-Control Over...
People who try to quit smoking often say that kicking the habit makes the voice inside telling them to light up even louder, but why people succumb to those cravings so often has never been fully...
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Penn Medicine Team to Examine Cognitive Impact of Space Flight as Part of...
A team of researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania will take part in a first-of-its-kind investigation by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration...
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Penn Researchers Pinpoint Molecular Path that Makes Antidepressants Act...
The reasons behind why it often takes people several weeks to feel the effect of newly prescribed antidepressants remains somewhat of a mystery – and likely, a frustration to both patients and...
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Penn's Garret FitzGerald Honored with Inaugural St. Patrick's Day Science...
Enda Kenny, the prime minister of Ireland, presented Garret A. FitzGerald, MD, FRS, director of the Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics and chair of the Department of Pharmacology,...
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DNA Comes Alive in Lights
On Wednesday, the University of Pennsylvania’s Basser Research Center for BRCA formally unveiled “Homologous Hope,” a new sculpture suspended from the glass atrium in the Perelman Center for Advanced...
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Hepatitis C Remains Problem for HIV Patients Despite Antiretroviral Therapy
A new study led by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has found that the risk of hepatitis C-associated serious liver disease persists in HIV patients...
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Penn Medicine Researchers Show How Lost Sleep Leads to Lost Neurons
A new Penn Medicine study shows disturbing evidence that chronic sleep loss may be more serious than previously thought and may even lead to irreversible physical damage to and loss of brain cells.
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Alzheimer's Prevention Trial To Evaluate and Monitor Participants' Reactions...
A new clinical trial will soon begin testing whether early medical intervention in people at risk for Alzheimer's can slow down progression of disease pathology before symptoms emerge, as outlined in...
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Michael S. Parmacek, MD, Named Chair of the Department of Medicine at...
Michael S. Parmacek, MD, Herbert C. Rorer Professor of Medical Sciences, has been named Chair of the Department of Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Perelman School of Medicine Students Learn Their Future at Match Day
It's a dramatic event, filled with anticipation, excitement and cheers. Match Day is here. On Friday, March 21 at 12:00 pm, 161 medical students (82 men and 79 women) from the Perelman School of...
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Bedside Optical Monitoring of Cerebral Blood Flow Shows Promise for...
Using a University of Pennsylvania-designed device to noninvasively and continuously monitor cerebral blood flow (CBF) in acute stroke patients, researchers from Penn Medicine and the Department of...
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Initiation of Dialysis for Acute Kidney Injury Beneficial for Robust...
A new study from researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has shown that for patients with lower creatinine concentration levels – a sign of reduced muscle mass...
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UPHS Shares Best Practices for Maintaining Professionalism Among Faculty at...
A Professionalism Committee-based approach has proven to be a successful and effective way to define and manage unprofessional behavior among physicians, according to a study from the University of...
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Penn Researcher Receives Grant to Study Roots of Speech Perception
Maria Neimark Geffen, PhD, has received a $750,000 grant over a three-year period from the Human Frontier Science Program to fund research into the developmental mechanisms in the human brain...
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Penn Study Reveals System of Centralized Liver Transplantation Care May Place...
Veterans with liver disease who live more than 100 miles from a Veterans Administration hospital that offers liver transplants are only half as likely to be placed on the liver transplant waitlist to...
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Media Toolkit: Penn Medicine at the 2014 American College of Cardiology...
Penn experts will present research findings that could come to define new standards of cardiovascular diagnostics and care at the 2014 American College of Cardiology Annual Scientific Sessions, ACC.14.
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