In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
In order to expand the research capabilities of medicine, chemistry and other scientific fields, the Center for Targeted Therapeutics and Translational Nanomedicine has created the Chemical and Nanoparticle Synthesis Core, which will fashion research components with the dimensions and precision only a nanotech expert can provide.
FULL STORY AT Penn One Health →
Ani Hsieh’s work with robotics primarily focuses on the unknown and isolated world of the oceans. “Robots make perfect sense for ocean exploration because humans can’t operate there without a lot of support infrastructure,” Hsieh says. Her research group programs teams of robots, from small groups up to large-scale swarms, for marine studies and exploration.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Blog →
At Penn Health-Tech’s Rothberg Catalyzer two-day makerthon that challenges interdisciplinary student teams to prototype and pitch medical devices, a team of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics graduate students won with their orthotic device that children with cerebral palsy can more comfortably wear as they sleep.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Blog →
A $5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health will help fund research to study how placenta keep harmful substances away from developing babies while still providing proper nutrition. Research will include how transporter proteins carrying nutrients, dietary supplements, medications and toxic chemicals work during pregnancies, how individual placenta cells respond to various stimuli in the laboratory, and how environmental factors influence placental transporters during healthy and unhealthy or complicated pregnancies.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →
