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  • In helping smokers quit, cash is king, e-cigarettes strike out

    Financial incentives are found to be three times more effective than smoking cessation aids, in a study by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News

  • Eva Anadioti among 40 Under 40 Honorees

    Penn Dental Medicine’s Eva Anadioti has been recognized by two independent organizations as one of their 2018 40 Under 40 honorees. Both the Greek America Foundation and the Philadelphia Business Journal selected Anadioti for these annual awards.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine

  • Network Synergy: a new way to value mergers and acquisitions

    Two Wharton papers consider the less-beaten path of forming a partnership between two companies rather than a merger and acquisition may create a more valuable partnership of “network synergy” rather than separate internal synergies.

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton

  • Knowledge by the slice: follow the carbon

    Sociology professor Daniel Aldana Cohen calls for a more nuanced, modern view on energy consumption when discussing factors in climate change.

    FULL STORY AT OMNIA

  • What will Maduro’s re-election mean for Venezuela?

    An arguably sham election prompts a political scientist at Penn to discuss the country's current crisis, and whether a regime change is the solution. 

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton

  • Black in white space

    Black people still feel the need to tread lightly, or not at all, in “white spaces” in light of recent discriminatory attacks and arrests. 

    FULL STORY AT Penn IUR

  • Can bundled payments help control health care costs?

    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.

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton

  • Dental student Samaneh Mojarrad receives Student of the Year Award

    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.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine

  • Transplantation pioneer receives Thomas E. Starzl Prize in Surgery and Immunology

    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.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News

  • Lowering drug prices: will the cost outweigh the cure?

    Experts at Wharton and Drexel analyze whether lowered prescription drug costs will be damaging to future drug research and manufacturing, and what is more important in the short and long-term for patients. 

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton