In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Richard Bartholomew recounts his time as a caregiver in a conversation with Penn Memory Center co-director Jason Karlawish, MD, during the second of two lectures designed to outline the history and present of Alzheimer’s Disease care to the recently opened Roybal Center on Palliative Care in Dementia.
FULL STORY AT Penn Memory Center →
Professor Tobias Barrington Wolff, Attorney Amy Maldonado, and Adam Garnick played a crucial role in the Third Circuit’s recent decision that federal district courts have subject matter jurisdiction in immigration cases involving “Migrant Protection Protocols,” which send immigrant detainees t
FULL STORY AT Penn Carey Law →
New research from the Perelman School of Medicine and the Abramson Cancer Center shows brain imaging may be able to predict when a blood test known as a liquid biopsy would or would not produce clinically actionable information.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
The deadly brain cancer glioblastoma is often resistant to chemotherapy and radiation, but new research from the Perelman School of Medicine and the Abramson Cancer Center shows targeting stromal cells—the cells that serve as the connective tissue of the organs—may be an effective way of overcoming that resistance.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Through the Innovation Laboratory, to be embedded within the Center, Colgate experts will work side by side with Penn Dental Medicine faculty, students, and researchers to assess needs and develop and refine new dental products that facilitate optimal dental care for patients with disabilities.
FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine →
Sharmell Branch, a social worker at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, worked tirelessly to secure a two-month humanitarian aid visa for a mother in Guatemala to be with her dying son.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Penn Medicine’s Serious Illness Care Program teaches nurses and doctors how to have frank conversations with patients who have serious illnesses, not to map out specific treatment plans or advanced directives, but to focus on a patient’s personal end-of-life priorities and plans.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Lisa Servon, the Kevin and Erica Penn Presidential Professor and Chair of City and Regional Planning at the Weitzman School, has been named research fellow at the Madison, Wisconsin-based Filene Research Institute, where she’ll lead the new Center of Excellence for Consumer Financial Lives in Transition.
FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →
Researchers identified a group of small molecules that ease repression of a specific gene, utrophin, in mouse muscle cells, allowing the body to produce more utrophin protein, which can be subbed in for dystrophin, a protein whose absence causes DMD.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Spontaneous preterm birth is also the number one cause of neonatal death around the world, and doctors admit they’re not entirely sure why some babies come early. New research from experts at Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine is adding key data that may steer future investigations toward the elusive answer—starting with microbiota.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
