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  • The NEMO Prize goes to research improving soft-tissue transplant surgeries

    This year, the Nemirovsky Engineering and Medicine Opportunity (NEMO) Prize has been awarded to Penn Engineering’s Daeyeon Lee in the Perelman School of Medicine, and Sergei Vinogradov in the Perelman School of Medicine and the School of Arts & Sciences. Together, they are developing a new therapy that improves the survival and success of soft-tissue grafts used in reconstructive surgery.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →

  • Penn Medicine nursing leader Robin Wood named to 2024 Carol Emmott Fellowship Class

    Wood’s fellowship project aims to improve patient outcomes and decrease lengths of stay by treating patients with similar medical conditions in the same unit.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • Periodontics resident takes top spot in research competition

    Kantapon (Tony) Rattanaprukskul took top honors for his research as the first place winner of the Balint Orban Memorial Competition, held as part of the recent 109 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Periodontology.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine →

  • Penn Medicine researchers awarded $8M to identify new traumatic brain injury treatments

    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.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • Appropriate statin prescriptions increase sixfold with automated referrals

    Penn Medicine researchers compared an automated referral process to traditional prescribing methods and found a potential advantage.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • Dennis Sourvanos receives ADA Foundation Crest and Oral-B Promising Researcher Award

    The NIDCR postdoctoral trainee at Penn Dental Medicine is the recipient of the American Dental Association Foundation 2023 Crest and Oral-B Promising Researcher Award in support of his multidisciplinary, translational preclinical research, which has developed new investigative avenues in Photobiomodulation light therapy.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine →

  • Developing a new type of data system for suicide prevention efforts

    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.

    FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →

  • At-home consumer tests raise ethical, health, and privacy questions

    A new study from Penn LDI finds the terms of these tests shift responsibility to the consumer to determine the results’ accuracy and usefulness.

    FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →

  • Cardiovascular disease in American Indian and Alaska Native populations reflects grave health disparities

    Indigenous populations have the lowest life expectancy of all racial groups and experience disproportionate burdens for chronic conditions like cardiovascular disease. To evaluate these disparities, LDI senior fellows Lauren A. Eberly, Sameed Ahmed M. Khatana, Judy A. Shea, Peter W. Groeneveld, and colleagues used Medicare administrative data and the Distressed Communities Index to assess trends in the incidence and prevalence of cardiovascular disease among American Indian and Alaska Native Medicare beneficiaries

    FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →

  • Penn Medicine receives $5M grant to study next generation of dementia treatments

    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.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →