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  • Muscle relaxant shows potential to treat neurodegenerative diseases

    A new Penn study shows administering the medication dantrolene through the nose increases its brain concentration and duration in a model of Alzheimer’s disease.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News

  • Protective brain-cell housekeeping mechanism may also regulate sleep

    An important biological mechanism that is thought to protect brain cells from neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s may also be involved in regulating sleep.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News

  • APPC and Penn Law’s CERL form alliance

    The Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) and Penn Law’s Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law (CERL) have formed an alliance to promote and strengthen the rule of law in democratic institutions.

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg Public Policy Center

  • Law School study identifies challenges women leaders face in law and business

    At Penn Law, under the leadership of Associate Dean Rangita de Silva de Alwis, students have taken up the mantle of identifying the barriers, boundaries, and biases that women face in the legal and business worlds for a new study.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Carey Law

  • Compton selected for induction to the International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame

    Penn Nursing’s Peggy Compton, the van Ameringen Chair in Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing and an associate professor in the Department of Family and Community Health, will be honored by Sigma Theta Tau International for her contributions to the nursing profession during the 31st International Nursing Research Congress in Abu Dhabi in July.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News

  • SP2 Task Force on Race and Social Justice puts forth recommendations

    After nearly a year of critical conversations and collaboration, the SP2 Task Force on Race and Social Justice has released a detailed report outlining a set of incisive recommendations aimed at advancing intersectionality, identity, and inclusion among all of the School’s constituent groups.

    FULL STORY AT School of Social Policy & Practice

  • Portrait of a caregiver: ‘You have to be a little selfish’

    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

  • Arguments for U.S. Third Circuit appeal on immigration case originated at Penn Law

    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

  • Imaging can guide whether liquid biopsy will benefit individual glioblastoma patients

    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

  • Making a patient’s final wish come true

    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