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Penn Vet offers drop-off service for University employees
It’s not always easy for pet owners to take time off from work to ensure that their animal companions get the veterinary care they need. Fortunately for animal-loving employees of Penn and Penn Medicine, the School of Veterinary Medicine’s Matthew J. Ryan Veterinary Hospital has a program that makes it easy to fit a vet appointment into a workday.
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Penn Researchers Show Relationship With Working Dogs Protect Handlers From PTSD
Anyone who has had a pet instinctively knows what several physical and mental health studies have shown: people who have a companion animal have lower levels of stress, anxiety and depression than the general population. But with love comes the possibility of loss; when pets fall ill, are hurt or die, their owners bear the psychological burden of increased risk of depression and other ailments.
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Penn-developed Mouse Model of Debilitating Lung Disease Suggests Potential Treatment Regimen
PHILADELPHIA — LAM, short for pulmonary lymphangioleiomyomatosis, affects about 1 in 10,000 women of childbearing age and is characterized by proliferation of smooth muscle-like cells in the lung, destruction of lung tissue, and growth of lymphatic vessels. The disease is caused by inactivation of either of two genes, TSC1 or TSC2, but to date no animal model has been able to replicate the pathologic features those mutations produce in humans.
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U.S. Department of Defense Awards Penn Researchers Funding to Investigate New Anti-Infection Drug
PHILADELPHIA — A team of researchers led by Samir Mehta, MD, chief of the Orthopaedic Trauma & Fracture Service at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, has received a $2.5 million grant from the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP), provided through the U.S.
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Event to Mark Partnership Between Penn and KIPP Schools
PHILADELPHIA – A ceremony today will cement the partnership between the KIPP Foundation and the University of Pennsylvania to increase college-completion rates for underserved KIPP students nationwide. To support this partnership effort, Martha and Bruce Karsh have contributed resources to help KIPP alumni as they make their way toward Penn degrees.
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Penn Study Finds Control of Pituitary Hormone Outside of Brain Has Implications for Breast Cancer
PHILADELPHIA — The hormone prolactin is produced by the pituitary gland in the brain and then travels via the bloodstream to cells throughout the body, where it exerts multiple reproductive and metabolic effects, most notably on the breast where it is the master regulator of lactation. In recent years researchers have found that prolactin is also produced by some tissues outside the brain, however little is known about the functions of extra-pituitary prolactin or how its production is regulated in these tissues.
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$2.5 Million Endowed Scholarship Supports New Partnership Between Penn and KIPP Schools
PHILADELPHIA -- It was for students such as Chevon Boone that dignitaries from the KIPP Foundation and the University of Pennsylvania gathered Oct. 2 to celebrate the establishment of a new partnership.
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Penn Vet Added to United Way's List of Approved Charities
PHILADELPHIA — The University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine has been added to the list of United Way charities to which individuals in the Philadelphia area may donate as part of a workplace campaign.
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Penn Public Safety Leader Unanimously Elected President of Philadelphia Police Foundation
PHILADELPHIA –- Maureen Rush, the vice president of public safety at the University of Pennsylvania, has been chosen as the Philadelphia Police Foundation’s first female president. The vote was unanimous.
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Chyke Doubeni Appointed Presidential Term Professor at Penn
PHILADELPHIA -- Chyke Doubeni has been named the second Presidential Term Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Doubeni, an expert on colorectal cancer and racial disparities in health care, is Presidential Term Associate Professor-Clinician Educator in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health of Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine.