In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Penn Medicine researchers will use an $8M grant from the Department of Defense to research biomarkers for traumatic brain injury, with the hope of testing new TBI treatments in clinical trials.
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Penn Medicine researchers compared an automated referral process to traditional prescribing methods and found a potential advantage.
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Researchers from Penn Medicine and the Wharton School have collaborated with Philadelphia’s Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual Disability Services to develop a new type of data infrastructure for regional suicide prevention efforts.
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Penn physicians and scientists will lead studies on underlying mechanisms of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias with a grant from the Delaware Community Foundation.
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The senior vice dean for Academic Affairs and a professor of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care in the Perelman School of Medicine has been selected as one of four recipients of the 2023 Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award by the Association of American Medical Colleges.
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A research team from the Perelman School of Medicine and the Abramson Cancer Center has received the grant for cancer research to target dormant tumor cells before they can cause a recurrence of the disease.
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In a new study by LDI senior fellow Courtney A. Schreiber and colleagues concluded that Rh testing and immunoglobulin administration is unnecessary after induced first-trimester abortion. These study results also suggest ways to reduce financial and clinical barriers to abortion care.
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The Penn-CHOP ECHO program will enroll patients at Penn Medicine during pregnancy and follow the infants into childhood at CHOP.
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Orkin received the third Elaine Redding Brinster Prize in Science or Medicine from Penn’s Institute for Regenerative Medicine for his work discovering the basis for hemoglobin gene switching and developing a therapy for sickle cell disease and other blood diseases.
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Penn Medicine and Penn Engineering are expanding their presence in Wexford’s uCity Square Knowledge Community with a new laboratory space dedicated to novel vaccine, therapeutics, and engineered diagnostics.
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