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Research Team from Penn Receives Vaccine Industry Excellence Award
The laboratory of David Weiner, PhD, a professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, received the 2015 Vaccine Industry Excellence...
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Limber Lungs: One Type of Airway Cell Can Regenerate Another Lung Cell Type
A new collaborative study describes a way that lung tissue can regenerate after injury. The team found that lung tissue has more dexterity in repairing tissue than once thought.
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Penn Study Describes First Steps in Basic Biological Process that Could be...
Understanding the molecular signals that guide early cells in the embryo to develop into different types of organs provides insight into how tissues regenerate and repair themselves. By knowing the...
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New Combination of Immunotherapy Drugs is Safe, Shrinks Tumors in Metastatic...
Once again, researchers at Penn’s Abramson Cancer Center have extended the reach of the immune system in the fight against metastatic melanoma, this time by combining the checkpoint inhibitor...
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Immunotherapy Drug Pembrolizumab Shows Early Promise for Mesothelioma...
The PD-1 inhibitor pembrolizumab, a cancer immunotherapy drug, shrank or halted growth of tumors in 76 percent of patients with pleural mesothelioma, a rare and deadly form of cancer that arises in the...
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Investigational Personalized Cellular Therapy Tolerated Well by Patients with...
Genetically modified versions of patients’ own immune cells successfully traveled to tumors they were designed to attack in an early-stage trial for mesothelioma and pancreatic and ovarian cancers at...
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Messenger RNA-associated Protein Drives Multiple Paths in T-cell Development,...
The lab of Kristen Lynch, PhD, published a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that describes a cascade of events that may explain changes in gene expression that occur during...
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Two Different Carotid Artery Stenting Procedures Show Little Difference in...
Use of either proximal embolic protection devices (P-EPDs) or distal filter embolic protection devices (F-EPDs) during elective carotid artery stenting results in low rates of in-hospital stroke and...
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University of Pennsylvania Team Receive Prestigious National Clinical...
Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the Penn Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) are among the 2015 recipients of the prestigious Clinical Research...
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Two Penn Medicine Studies Examine Diabetes Severity, Sex Differences in...
A pair of studies from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania demonstrate a correlation between diabetes severity and parkinsonism, or parkinsonian tremors; and examine the...
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Two Researchers from Penn's Perelman School of Medicine Elected to American...
Two researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have been elected as new members to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation's most...
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Penn Study Shows Computer-Assisted Diagnosis Tool Helps Physicians Assess...
In the first major study to examine the use of a computer-assisted, photo-driven differential diagnosis generator for skin conditions, researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University...
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Penn Pioneer in Personalized Medicine Advocates that National Translational...
Writing this week in Science Translational Medicine, Garret FitzGerald, MD, FRS, stresses that to "influence emergence of the clinic of the future, one designed to practice precision medicine," an NIH...
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Invitation to Cover: Penn Medicine Hosts Pennsylvania Cardiac Arrest Survivor...
Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) survivors, their families and healthcare providers from across Pennsylvania will come together to celebrate survival, recognize rescuers and foster a support network within...
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Higher-level Occupations May Increase Survival in Patients with a Common Form...
Doctors, lawyers and other “high level” professionals may have a built-in survival edge if they’re diagnosed with the disease frontotemporal dementia (FTD), according to new research from the Perelman...
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Six Perelman School of Medicine Faculty Members Win PCORI Contracts for...
Four researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania will be awarded a total of nearly 30 million dollars in research funding contracts by the Patient-Centered...
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Puentes de Salud Opens New Center on Penn Medicine Rittenhouse Campus
Puentes de Salud – “Bridges of Health” – will open its doors on Saturday at a new Philadelphia facility that will be a permanent home for the program’s longstanding efforts to provide low-cost primary...
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Penn-Sponsored Million Dollar Bike Ride to Raise Awareness about Rare Diseases
The second annual Million Dollar Bike Ride will be held on Saturday, May 9, 2015, to support research and raise awareness about rare diseases.
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Medical Education Risks Becoming Two-Tiered Unless Strong Research Focus is...
For more than 100 years, exposing students to basic and clinical research has been an essential component of a medical school education in the United States. However, today, new models of medical...
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NIH Awards 8 Million Dollar Renewal to Penn Medicine's Center of Excellence...
The National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has renewed its funding to the Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology...
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