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  • Imaging can guide whether liquid biopsy will benefit individual glioblastoma patients

    New research from the Perelman School of Medicine and the Abramson Cancer Center shows brain imaging may be able to predict when a blood test known as a liquid biopsy would or would not produce clinically actionable information.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News

  • Targeting stromal cells may help overcome treatment resistance in glioblastoma

    The deadly brain cancer glioblastoma is often resistant to chemotherapy and radiation, but new research from the Perelman School of Medicine and the Abramson Cancer Center shows targeting stromal cells—the cells that serve as the connective tissue of the organs—may be an effective way of overcoming that resistance. 

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News

  • Colgate-Palmolive $1M gift to support care center for persons with disabilities, establish innovation laboratory

    Through the Innovation Laboratory, to be embedded within the Center, Colgate experts will work side by side with Penn Dental Medicine faculty, students, and researchers to assess needs and develop and refine new dental products that facilitate optimal dental care for patients with disabilities.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine

  • Making a patient’s final wish come true

    Sharmell Branch, a social worker at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, worked tirelessly to secure a two-month humanitarian aid visa for a mother in Guatemala to be with her dying son.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News

  • When we talk about dying

    Penn Medicine’s Serious Illness Care Program teaches nurses and doctors how to have frank conversations with patients who have serious illnesses, not to map out specific treatment plans or advanced directives, but to focus on a patient’s personal end-of-life priorities and plans.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News

  • Lisa Servon to direct Center of Excellence for Consumer Financial Lives in Transition

    Lisa Servon, the Kevin and Erica Penn Presidential Professor and Chair of City and Regional Planning at the Weitzman School, has been named research fellow at the Madison, Wisconsin-based Filene Research Institute, where she’ll lead the new Center of Excellence for Consumer Financial Lives in Transition. 

    FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design

  • Potential new methods for Duchenne muscular dystrophy therapies discovered

    Researchers identified a group of small molecules that ease repression of a specific gene, utrophin, in mouse muscle cells, allowing the body to produce more utrophin protein, which can be subbed in for dystrophin, a protein whose absence causes DMD. 

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News

  • The curious case of preterm birth: Is environment to blame?

    Spontaneous preterm birth is also the number one cause of neonatal death around the world, and doctors admit they’re not entirely sure why some babies come early. New research from experts at Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine is adding key data that may steer future investigations toward the elusive answer—starting with microbiota.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News

  • Krystal Strong urges U.S. House subcommittee to support leadership initiatives for African youth

    Penn GSE’s Krystal Strong, an expert in youth leadership in African countries, told the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations, that this “youth bulge” of Africans under the age of 30 represents a huge opportunity for African societies and the U.S., but only if a path to leadership can be opened for them.

    FULL STORY AT Graduate School of Education

  • David Amponsah named Presidential Assistant Professor of Africana Studies

    The assistant professor of Africana Studies is a scholar of religion and society in Africa and its diaspora. The Presidential Professorships are five-year term chairs, awarded to outstanding scholars, whose appointments to the standing faculty are approved by the Provost and who demonstrably contribute excellence and diversity to Penn’s inclusive community.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences