Perelman School of Medicine

Top row: Dennis Discher, Michael Correa-Jones, and Cherie Kagan. Bottom row: Sophie Rosenfeld and Susan Weiss.

Five Penn faculty elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Dennis E. Discher, Michael Jones-Correa, Cherie R. Kagan, Sophia Rosenfeld, and Susan R. Weiss are being recognized for their contributions to engineering, political science, history, and biology.

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COVID vaccine protected kids from long COVID

New research from Penn Medicine biostatistics professor Yong Chen finds that vaccines kept children and adolescents from developing long COVID by blocking COVID-19 infections from the start, instead of special protection against the virus.

Wyss donation creates Penn orthoplastic surgery hub

The $4.9 million donation from the Wyss Medical Foundation will create the Wyss Orthoplastic Global Education and Innovation Hub at Penn Medicine. The Hub will conduct research, create fellowships, and establish a conference in the emerging field of orthoplastic surgery, which combines expertise from both plastic and orthopaedic surgery.

Panel assesses federal cuts to LGBTQ+ health projects

Health care experts gathered for a panel titled Breaking Barriers, Advancing LGBTQ+ Health Equity Through Policy, led by LDI senior fellow and director of Penn’s Eidos LGBTQ+ Health Initiative José Bauermeister, to discuss how funding for grants and programs canceled by the White House might be restored from other sources.

Gloved hand pouring freeze dried "transgenic" lettuce into a grinder.

A better understanding of common hypertension medications

Henry Daniell of Penn Dental and collaborators found that ACE inhibitors dramatically reduced the activity of ACE2, a critical cardioprotective enzyme.

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Shelley Berger honored by AACR for cancer research

Berger, the Daniel S. Och University Professor with appointments in the Perelman School of Medicine department of Cell & Developmental Biology and a Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor in the School of Arts & Sciences, is recognized for her outstanding contributions to cancer research by the American Association for Cancer Research with the 2025 AACR-Women in Cancer Research Charlotte Friend Lectureship.

A Penn Med student putting a pin in a map on Match Day 2025.

Match Day sees future MDs planning medical careers back home, and at Penn

Graduating students at Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine gathered with friends and family for the annual Match Day celebration in the Atrium in the Jordan Medical Education Center; at noon, their opened envelopes revealed their next steps for residency.

A laughing gas mask hovering over a patient’s perspective.

Laughing gas: An old drug’s new trick to fight depression

Researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine have uncovered how nitrous oxide, an anesthetic used worldwide since the 19th century, could help lift mood fast in people with depression that resists other treatments.

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Scientists unlock frogs’ antibacterial secrets to combat superbugs

The lab of César de la Fuente has created synthetic peptides, a class of antibiotics, derived from the secretions of a frog commonly found in South Asia.

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AI Across Disciplines panelists on stage engaged in conversation.

AI Across Disciplines event highlights the power of ‘breadth and connectivity’ at universities

At a cross-disciplinary gathering at Amy Gutmann Hall, the Penn community celebrated the launch of the Penn AI Initiative with a panel discussing AI research at Penn—and writ large.

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