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  • New lipid nanoparticles improve mRNA delivery for engineering CAR T cells

    Researchers from the School of Engineering and Applied Science and Perelman School of Medicine have now shown how to computationally optimize the design of lipid nanoparticles to accurately target cell delivery.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today

  • Penn Libraries unveils first read and publish agreement with Cambridge University Press

    As of January 1, Penn students, faculty, and staff whose research articles are accepted for publication in academic journals published by Cambridge University Press have the option to make their article open access at no additional cost to them. 

    FULL STORY AT Penn Libraries

  • Tips to stop smoking during the pandemic

    The first step for patients wanting to go tobacco free is to view the chance as a process with a series of steps rather than a switch they can flip on or off. For results that stick, Frank T. Leone, director of Penn Medicine’s Comprehensive Smoking Treatment Program, recommends targeting the underlying compulsion to inhale nicotine.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News

  • What’s ahead for the U.S. economy in 2022

    The Federal Reserve must get “more aggressive” in 2022 by increasing interest rates and tapering down asset purchases in order to tame inflation, according to Wharton finance professor Jeremy Siegel.

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton

  • $20 million for AI-driven technological health solutions for older adults

    The new center—the Penn Artificial Intelligence and Technology Collaboratory for Healthy Aging (PennAITech)—is led by LDI senior fellows George Demiris and Jason Karlawish, and by Jason Moore, Chair of Computational Biomedicine at Cedar Sinai. It is focused on developing innovative technologies to improve care and living supports for older adults.

    FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute

  • Deep Jariwala receives IEEE Photonics Society Young Investigator Award

    The assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, whose research lies at the intersection of solid-state opto-electronics and emerging low-dimensional materials, is being honored “for breakthrough advances in optical characterization and understanding of light-matter coupling in excitonic and strongly-correlated semiconductors.”

    FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today

  • How Weitzman students plan for climate change

    In the fall of 2021, students in landscape architecture and city and regional planning studios at the Weitzman School grappled with the varied challenges of planning for climate change. Their work took place at multiple spatial scales, across decades, and in diverse communities, from the U.S. Virgin Islands to the nation’s capital. 

    FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design

  • Penn Medicine-led team receives $8 million to build on success of hepatitis C kidney transplantation research

    The next stage of the NIH-funded THINKER clinical trial will address long-term outcomes and risks of transplanting kidneys from hepatitis C-infected donors into patients.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News

  • 10 crucial years for rare disease research

    A pioneer in the field of orphan diseases and gene therapy, James M. Wilson reflects on 10 years of leading Penn’s Orphan Disease Center.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News

  • CDC awards $2 million to Penn to combat antimicrobial resistance in Southern Africa

    The grant will support Penn’s work, in collaboration with Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, at multiple locations across the country through the Botswana-UPenn partnership, a 20-year collaboration between Penn’s Center for Global Health and the University of Botswana and the Botswana Ministry of Health and Wellness.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News