In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Dr. Ali Naji, the J. William White Professor of Surgical Research at the Perelman School of Medicine wins one of the highest honors for a transplant surgeon-scientist as an esteemed kidney and pancreas transplant surgeon, immunologist, and researcher.
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The Journal of Clinical Orthodontics (JCO) recently announced the selection of Dr. Samaneh Mojarrad (GD’18), a Penn Dental Medicine orthodontics resident and Master of Science in Oral Biology (MSOB) candidate, as the winner of the 2018 Eugene L. Gottlieb JCO Student of the Year Award. Dr. Mojarrad was chosen over 21 other students from schools around the United States in a two-stage competition judged by members of the JCO editorial board.
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New research out of the Perelman School of Medicine shows that bundled Medicare payments effectively reduced costs and improved the quality of health care. It may be key to slowing or even reversing the rise of health care costs in the country.
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Facing a growing caregiver problem, the CARE act will address the needs of vulnerable older adults in diverse communities for their benefit and their caregivers.
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Anew study from the Perelman School of Medicine determined that “clear cell” renal cell carcinoma tumors are found to repress enzyme activity. Treatments that restore the depleted enzymes may expand options for kidney cancer patients.
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A quick primer that clarifies how these cholesterol-lowering drugs work, and who should, and shouldn't, be taking them.
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The Penn Nursing professor’s lecture, “We Went to Mississippi: Nurses and Civil Rights Activism of the mid-1960s,” will be given at the American Association for the History of Medicine’s annual meeting.
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A robotic arm removed a rare spinal tumor from his neck in a first-ever surgery of its kind. Now, nine months on, the patient is back to work, and doctors reflect on the three-part, groundbreaking procedure.
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Penn Vet's Michelle Linton assisted the preterm but healthy delivery of twin foals named Cache and Cherish. Carrying foals to term is quite unusual, and birthing healthy twins is especially unlikely.
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A tracer developed at Penn that makes PARP-1 visible via PET scanning is the latest biomarker of the function and potential efficacy of PARP inhibitors in current ovarian cancer research.
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