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  • Penn Memory Center researchers look at the future of Alzheimer’s detection

    A direct-to-consumer blood test for a key Alzheimer’s biomarker may be inevitable, but Penn Program on Precision Medicine for the Brain researchers Jason Karlawish, Emily Largent, and Anna Wexler warn that receiving results from such a test comes with potential challenges. The team weigh the risks and benefits of these blood tests in an article for JAMA Neurology titled “The Future is p-Tau—Anticipating Direct-to-Consumer Alzheimer’s Disease Blood Tests.”  

    FULL STORY AT Penn Memory Center →

  • David Brainard receives Edgar D. Tiller Award From Optical Society

    The associate dean for the natural sciences and professor of psychology has been selected as the 2021 recipient of the award from the OSA for his experimental and theoretical contributions to our understanding of how the visual system resolves the ambiguities inherent in sensory signals to produce a stable percept of object color.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →

  • New Center for Soft and Living Matter is launched

    The Center for Soft and Living Matter will be a joint endeavor between the School of Arts & Sciences and the School of Engineering and Applied Science, led by director Andrea J. Liu, Hepburn Professor of Physics, and associate director Douglas J. Durian, professor of physics.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →

  • How a hands-on materials science course adapted to remote instruction

    The Failure Analysis of Engineering Materials course went online during the Fall 2020 semester, successfully providing real-world engineering examples, such as bridge collapses or construction crane failures, to help students understand why a given material has broken. 

    FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →

  • High-risk gene for neurodevelopmental disorders linked to sleep problems in flies

    A new study may explain how brain dysfunction gives rise to sleep disruptions in children with neurodevelopmental disorders.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • Medication keeps more patients with ANCA-associated vasculitis in remission than steroids

    A Phase 3 clinical trial shows that Avacopan, which targets a receptor that attracts the cells that cause inflammation, was shown to be more effective at keeping patients in remission for a year than prednisone.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • Research grant programs to advance innovation in oral and craniofacial health

    Two new research grant programs have been launched in partnership with the Center for Innovation & Precision Dentistry to help advance innovative breakthroughs in dental medicine, with Penn Health-Tech and the Penn Medicine Center for Health Care Innovation incorporating these funding opportunities into their annual call for proposals for medical devices and health technology development projects.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine →

  • A new epilepsy unit advances possibilities for science and patients at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Pavilion

    The Epilepsy Monitoring Unit and the Human Neurophysiology Research Laboratory at the new Pavilion at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania is a twelve bed unit will be equipped with cameras, recording equipment, and monitor–advanced imaging to help find where seizures coming from in the brain.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • The ties between structural racism, voting rights, and health equity

    The often non-obvious connections and entangled synergies of the U.S. voting process, health disparities, and structural racism were the subjects of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics’ first virtual seminar of 2021. Moderated by Atheendar Venkataramani, senior fellow and director of the Perelman School of Medicine’s Opportunity for Health Lab, the event featured three other top experts in the fields of political science, voting rights and health disparities: Nicole Austin-Hillery, executive director of the U.S.

    FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →

  • Safety-net hospitals after Medicaid expansion

    In states that expanded Medicaid after the Affordable Care Act, safety-net hospitals (SNHs) saw their operating margins improve and levels of uncompensated care decrease. But a new study finds that while SNHs were also able to scale up some safety-net services—such as inpatient psychiatric care—these changes did not translate into measurable improvements in quality.

    FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →