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Penn's Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research Collaborates on...
Penn's Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research (CNDR) will partner with Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development, L.L.C., (J&JPRD) to develop algorithms that can identify...
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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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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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Safeguards Needed to Prevent Discrimination of Early Alzheimer's Patients in...
The changing tide of Alzheimer's diagnosis presents new challenges to the public, physicians and lawmakers: if you could find out your Alzheimer's risk, would you want to know? How should doctors tell...
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Relationship Between Exercise and Breast Cancer Recurrence to be Studied by...
A $10 million grant from the National Cancer Institute will fund a new center at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania focusing on the relationship between exercise, weight...
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Predicting the Fate of Personalized Cells Next Step Towards New Therapies,...
Discovering the step-by-step details of the path embryonic cells take to develop into their final tissue type is the clinical goal of many stem cell biologists.
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Penn Researchers Shorten Time for Manufacturing of Personalized Ovarian...
Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania are in the midst of testing a personalized, dendritic cell vaccine in patients with recurrent ovarian, primary...
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Dana Foundation Grant to Test Concussion Treatment for Athletes
Peter LeRoux, MD, FACS, associate professor of Neurosurgery in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, was awarded a 3-year, $250,000 Dana Foundation Clinical Neuroscience...
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Four Penn Professors Named AAAS Fellows
Four faculty members at the University of Pennsylvania have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), three from the Perelman School of Medicine. This year...
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Penn Researchers Find Concurrent Treatment for Type 2 Diabetes and Depression...
Patients simultaneously treated for both Type 2 diabetes and depression improve medication compliance and significantly improve blood sugar and depression levels compared to patients receiving usual...
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Lisa Marsilio Named Executive Director of Good Shepherd Penn Partners
Good Shepherd Penn Partners has named Lisa Marsilio, MBA, of Fogelsville, Pennsylvania, as Executive Director.
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Gout Flares Reduced with Protein-trapping Treatment
Patients with gout – a painful type of inflammatory arthritis caused by the crystallization of urates in soft tissues – are advised to start treatment that lowers uric acid levels in the blood....
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Cancer Cells Feed on Sugar-Free Diet
Cancer cells have been long known to have a "sweet tooth," using vast amounts of glucose for energy and for building blocks for cell replication.
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Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson's Improves Motion and Mood, Reduces...
A new multi-center study, including neurologists and neurosurgeons from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, reveals that Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) – a treatment for...
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Penn Lung Biologists to Receive $2.5 Million to Study Repair and Regeneration
The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania is one of six institutions to be named part of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Lung Repair and Regeneration Consortium...
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Gender Differences in Liver Cancer Risk Explained by Small Changes in Genome,...
Men are four times more likely to develop liver cancer compared to women, a difference attributed to the sex hormones androgen and estrogen. Although this gender difference has been known for a long...
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Cell Tracking Allows Penn Researchers to See Metastasis of Pancreatic Cancer...
TBen Stanger, MD, PhD, assistant professor of Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, and Andrew Rhim, MD, a Gastroenterology Fellow...
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Sleep Problems Increase Risk for Cardiovascular Disease, Diabetes and...
People who suffer from sleep disturbances are at major risk for obesity, diabetes, and coronary artery disease, according to new research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of...
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New Report Examines Autism Needs for Patients and Families in Pennsylvania
Results were released yesterday from the Pennsylvania Autism Needs Assessment, which includes feedback from 3,500 Pennsylvania caregivers and adults with autism, making it the largest study of its kind...
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Four-Week Vaccination Regimen Knocks Out Early Breast Cancer Tumors, Penn...
Researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine and the Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania report that a short course of vaccination with an anti-HER2 dendritic cell vaccine made...
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