In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Penn GSE’s Krystal Strong, an expert in youth leadership in African countries, told the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations, that this “youth bulge” of Africans under the age of 30 represents a huge opportunity for African societies and the U.S., but only if a path to leadership can be opened for them.
FULL STORY AT Graduate School of Education →
The assistant professor of Africana Studies is a scholar of religion and society in Africa and its diaspora. The Presidential Professorships are five-year term chairs, awarded to outstanding scholars, whose appointments to the standing faculty are approved by the Provost and who demonstrably contribute excellence and diversity to Penn’s inclusive community.
FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →
The Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health’s Maternal-Fetal Medicine and Diabetes & Endocrinology practices as a team help pregnant women gain better control of their diabetes while reducing the risk of complications to both mother and baby.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
This month, Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice announced the launch of a new training institute, the Institute in Critical Quantitative, Computational, & Mixed Methodologies, designed for scholars from underrepresented backgrounds as well as for scholars doing critical research on communities of color.
FULL STORY AT School of Social Policy & Practice →
