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  • New Bolton Center developing biological passports

    The Center's Equine Pharmacology Laboratory is in the process of gathering and analyzing data from racing Thoroughbreds for its BioBank, a giant cache of samples that could be used for biological passports, which have a number of potential uses in competition horses.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Vet

  • Penn Medicine joins the Cochrane United States network

     Penn Medicine’s Center for Evidence-based Practice is one of 11 institutions to join the newly formed Cochrane U. S Network, a global independent network of researchers, professionals, patients, caregivers and people interested in health. 

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News

  • A loop to raise awareness

    The Gift of Life Donor Dash raises awareness of how critical organ donation is and honors all donors who give others a second chance at life. The Penn Medicine team raised more than $2,200 for the 2019 Dash. This year, HUP took the goal to raise awareness one step further—holding its own “dash” on 10 patient care units.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News

  • Penn receives $12 million grant to study connection between radiation and immunotherapies

    The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research’s award establishes a new center within the Abramson Cancer Center.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News

  • Diversity Fellow works to make everyone feel welcome in Penn GSE’s community

    Jax Lastinger, a student in Penn GSE’s Education, Culture, and Society master’s program, received the 2019 Award for Promoting Excellence in Diversity and Inclusion at Penn GSE’s commencement. 

    FULL STORY AT Graduate School of Education

  • Data for Equitable Justice Lab symposium

    Held at Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice, the Data for Equitable Justice Lab Symposium featured an afternoon of engaging and discussion-worthy presentations on each student’s chosen areas of research and advocacy, led by Dan Treglia, a postdoctoral fellow at SP2 and lecturer in the MSSP program.

    FULL STORY AT School of Social Policy & Practice

  • Amicus Therapeutics and Penn announce expansion of gene therapy collaboration

    With Amicus Therapeutics, Penn’s gene therapy technologies from the Wilson Lab will have exclusive disease-specific worldwide rights for the majority of lysosomal disorders and twelve additional rare diseases. 

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News

  • Zimmerman honored for advocating for open expression

    The Heterodox Academy has given Penn GSE education historian Jonathan Zimmerman its 2019 Open Inquiry Leadership Award. Zimmerman, a founding member of the Heterodox Academy, has worked to bring students and faculty with differing political viewpoints together. 

    FULL STORY AT Graduate School of Education

  • Shira Brisman receives the 2019 Schulman and Bullard Article Prize

    The assistant professor of history of art received the award from the Association of Print Scholars for an article published by an early-career scholar that features compelling and innovative research on prints or printmaking.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences

  • New Annenberg Presidential Associate Professor Sarah J. Jackson studies narratives of race and gender in the media

    As 2019 New America National Fellow, Jackson is looking at how contemporary black media makers and cultural workers like education journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, filmmaker Ava DuVernay, and author Ta-Nehisi Coates are challenging the mainstream ways we talk about race and inequality.

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg School for Communication