In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Led by Maria A. Oquendo and Gregory K. Brown, the INSPIRE center brings together psychiatry, implementation science, health economics, machine learning, and other interdisciplinary research experts to apply innovative approaches to suicide prevention.
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Co-founded by associate professor of medicine Saar Gill, Interius is developing new ways to engineer cells inside the human body, and aims to transform cell and gene therapy through direct patient administration of genetic medicines to generate therapeutic immune and blood cells.
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The CHIBE associate director and the Mitchell J. Blutt and Margo Krody Blutt Presidential Associate Professor of Health Policy and the rest of the 2021 scholar class will participate in a variety of activities over a 3-year term, including attending meetings, publishing NAM perspectives, and planning a leaders forum.
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Volunteer initiatives to create more green space for improved mental health in Philadelphia, and nutritional support for students participating in after-school sports, are among the 22 projects to receive Penn Medicine CAREs funding this quarter.
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Antonia Villarruel is set to receive the 2021 Health Care Leader Award from the American Academy of Nursing, which recognizes an influential national leader dedicated to improving the health of the nation through contributions to organizational excellence.
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The cyclotron is the centerpiece of the Penn Medicine | Virtua Health facility, which will provide a leading-edge form of cancer treatment starting in late 2022.
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A popular class of diabetes medications called GLP-1R agonists may also protect against glaucoma in diabetic patients, according to a new study led by researchers in the Scheie Eye Institute at the Perelman School of Medicine.
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The National Institutes of Health has selected Penn Medicine as one of 25 award recipients across 30 sites in the United States to serve as Impact of Genomic Variation on Function investigators, with the goal of better understanding how genetic differences impact how human genes function, and how these variations influence human health and disease.
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Cynthia Chude, the first Escarce-Kington Scholar in the new Wharton Health Care Management and Meharry Medical College Joined MD/PhD Program, has begun classes and also become an LDI Associate Fellow. Currently a third-year medical student at Meharry, Chude takes a leave of absence to pursue her five-year doctoral studies at the Wharton School.
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The LDI-Penn Medicine Research Laboratory is focused on investigating questions about health care delivery that support LDI’s national mission of advancing health care knowledge and are of interest to Penn Medicine’s operations and direction.
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