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Therapy for Rare Cancers Receives FDA Approval Following Trials at Penn’s...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first ever non-surgical treatment for the rare neuroendocrine cancers pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma. The approval was based on a...
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Red-Blood-Cell “Hitchhikers” Offer New Way to Transport Drugs to Specific...
A new drug-delivery technology which uses red blood cells (RBCs) to shuttle nano-scale drug carriers, called RBC-hitchhiking (RH), has been found in animal models to dramatically increase the...
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Machine Learning Links Major Dimensions of Mental Illness in Youth to...
A new study using machine learning has identified brain-based dimensions of mental health disorders, an advance towards much-needed biomarkers to more accurately diagnose and treat patients.
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Ensuring Equality: Penn Develops First of its Kind Framework for Measuring...
The importance of an inclusive workforce culture in health care is key to advancing scientific inquiry, improving the quality of care, and optimizing patient satisfaction. In fact, diverse student...
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Advancing Transplantation: Hepatitis C-infected Organs Safe for...
Twenty patients at Penn Medicine have been cured of the Hepatitis C virus (HCV) following lifesaving kidney transplants from deceased donors who were infected with the disease, according to a study...
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Penn Medicine Immunologist Receives Early Career Honor from Burroughs...
Under the grant, Henao-Mejia will work to uncover how minute organisms in the gut contribute to obesity and type 2 diabetes, findings which could pave the way from new treatments to reduce the...
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Penn Medicine’s Commitment to Encouraging Healthy Lifestyles for Patients and...
Sodas, sports drinks, sweetened juices, fast food and grab-and-go vending machine snacks are staples of many American diets, and this fare has become a major contributor to obesity and chronic disease...
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Penn Biomedical Graduate Studies Program Receives $2 Million Gift from the...
The Blavatnik Family Fellowship will be competitively awarded to six Penn BGS students for each of the next four academic years. By 2021, the Blavatnik Family Fellowship will have impacted 24 students,...
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Inaugural Class of the Michael Brown Penn-GSK Postdoctoral Fellowship Award...
Four Penn Medicine postdoctoral trainees have been awarded three-year fellowships through a newly established program, the Michael Brown Penn-GSK Postdoctoral Fellowship Award Program from the Perelman...
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Annual White Coat Ceremony Marks Start of Medical School for Perelman School...
On Friday, 152 first-year medical school students will begin their education at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania by receiving white coats during its annual White Coat...
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Cancer Cells Send Out “Drones” to Battle Immune System from Afar
The research offers a paradigm-shifting picture of how cancers take a systemic approach to suppressing the immune system. In addition, it also points to a new way to predict which cancer patients will...
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Drugs in Development for Cancer May Also Fight Brain Diseases, including ALS
A class of cancer drugs called PARP inhibitors could be useful for treating and preventing brain disorders, including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also called Lou Gehrig’s disease, and some...
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Penn’s Jonathan Moreno Receives Bioethics Lifetime Achievement Award
Describing him as “one of the world’s foremost experts in bioethics and politics and bioethics in national security,” the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities has awarded Penn Medicine...
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“Alarming” Diabetes Epidemic in Guatemala Tied to Aging, Not Obesity
Indigenous populations, including those living in Guatemala, are disproportionately affected by type 2 diabetes compared to their urban counterparts and those living in developed nations. However, a...
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Penn Medicine Hospitals Ranked Among Top Hospitals in the Nation and #1 in...
Out of nearly 5,000 hospitals analyzed nationwide, Penn Medicine is among only 20 institutions to be named to the publication’s 2018-2019 Honor Roll. According to the magazine’s editors, Honor Roll...
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Three Penn Medicine Leaders in Innovation Education and Research Receive...
Three faculty members in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have been selected to receive awards from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), the...
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Penn Medicine’s Carl June Receives 2018 Albany Prize
Albany Medical Center has given out the $500,000 award annually since 2001 to those “who have altered the course of medical research” and is one of the largest prizes in medicine and science in the...
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First-of-its-Kind Parkinson’s Disease Biomarker Guidelines Invigorates Drive...
Today, a slate of guidelines to shape the future of Parkinson’s biomarker research have been published in Science Translational Medicine.
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First Mouse Model to Mimic Lung Disease Could Speed Discovery of More...
The biggest hurdle to finding effective therapies for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) – a life-threatening condition in which the lungs become scarred and breathing is increasingly difficult – has...
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Knockdown and Replace: A Gene Therapy Twofer to Treat Blindness
New findings from a team led by University of Pennsylvania vision scientists, who have in the past taken gene therapies into clinical trials, are proving successful, this time treating a form of...
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