In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
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 →
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 →
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.
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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 →
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 →
A team of Master of City Planning and Master of Landscape Architecture students at Weitzman won an Edmund N. Bacon Urban Design Award from Philadelphia’s Center for Architecture and Design. The team’s proposal reimagines the 1300-acre Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery site located along the Schuylkill River in Southwest Philadelphia.
FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →
The assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics’ prize comes from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Activity Group on Computational Science and Engineering for his work on machine learning using Gaussian processes and neural networks.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →
The James M. Skinner Professor of Science was selected for his pioneering research on optical sensing in scattering media, especially diffuse optical and correlation spectroscopy and tomography, and for advancing the field of biophotonics through mentorship.
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The Ruth M. Colket Endowed Chair in Pediatric Nursing and professor of nursing has been awarded the 2021 Drs. Vidyasagar and Nagamani Dharmapuri Award for Excellence in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine.
FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →
A mass COVID-19 vaccination clinic at the Church of Christian Compassion will provide 500 doses of COVID-19 to registrants from across the local faith community.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
