In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
The associate professor of oral medicine and director of the postdoctoral oral medicine program at Penn Dental School was installed as president for 2018-19 at the recent AAOM Annual Meeting.
FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine →
Preclinical research published in PLOS One shows potential for decreasing the risk of heart failure in Friedreich's ataxia patients, and will move forward with trials to determine whether raising HDL levels, or "good cholesterol" by administering statins will reduce their cardiovascular risk.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
At an event sponsored by the Penn Medicine Center for Health Care Innovation, author, surgeon, and professor Atul Gawande characterized the present era in health care as a pivotal point in history. He focused much of his remarks on an innovative approach to the clinical planning and execution of care for patients with serious illness—something that has been one of medicine’s most unsettled areas.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
Four Penn law students head to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit to argue an amicus brief, thanks to an externship sponsored by the Dechert LLP law firm.
FULL STORY AT Penn Carey Law →
A look at diseases vaccinations have eliminated, the potential for future vaccines, how populations in modern history have responded to vaccine access, and which researchers at Penn are on the forefront of vaccine development.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
In order to expand the research capabilities of medicine, chemistry and other scientific fields, the Center for Targeted Therapeutics and Translational Nanomedicine has created the Chemical and Nanoparticle Synthesis Core, which will fashion research components with the dimensions and precision only a nanotech expert can provide.
FULL STORY AT Penn One Health →
According to a 3-year, 27-center study led by the Perelman School of Medicine, researchers found that omega-3 fatty acids are no more effective than placebo pills in alleviating the symptoms of dry eye. While the 12-month study found participants experienced an improvement in their symptoms, the results of those taking the supplements and those in the control group were not markedly different.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Three Wharton-Lauder students are the recipients of the 2018 Jacobson Global Venture Award. The $10k cash award allows students to spend the summer concentrating on their entrepreneurial development in lieu of a summer internship. The students' projects concentrate on the sustainable diamond trade, an auto insurance brokerage for underserved populations, and a traumatic injury detection system venture owned and operated by military veterans.
FULL STORY AT Wharton →
Crist Beiler, a registered ER nurse at Lancaster General Hospital, is one of only two medical interpreters fluent in Pennsylvania Dutch for the Amish community of Lancaster County.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Penn received a Gold Rating for its 2017 submission of the STARS survey for the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education. The STARS survey is a comprehensive benchmarking system and is used by more than 800 colleges and universities on six continents to evaluate their environmental performance.
FULL STORY AT Penn Sustainability →
