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The path from innovation to implementation
Tray of vials in a medical lab.

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The path from innovation to implementation

Penn’s infrastructure in both supporting clinical research and forging commercial partnerships smooths the way from idea to approval.

Karen L. Brooks for Penn Medicine Magazine

Two Penn faculty elected to the American Philosophical Society
Paul Offit and Dorothy Roberts.

Paul Offit, the Maurice R. Hilleman Chair of Vaccinology in the Department of Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine, and director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; and Dorothy E. Roberts, the George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights.

(Images: (Left) Courtesy of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and (right) Sameer A. Khan)

Two Penn faculty elected to the American Philosophical Society

Paul Offit and Dorothy Roberts have been recognized for extraordinary accomplishments in their fields.
Promoting exercise for healthy brain aging in the Latino community
Four older Latinx people with Ruby Rivera and Adriana Perez at a community health center.

Participants of Tiempo Juntos with community health promoter, Ruby Rivera and Adriana Perez.

(Image: Courtesy of Penn Memory Center)

Promoting exercise for healthy brain aging in the Latino community

Penn Nursing’s Adriana Perez engages the Latino community in fitness classes through Tiempo Juntos Por Nuestra Salud.

From Penn Memory Center

Penn Medicine to open new crisis response center at Cedar Avenue facility
Outside entrance of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania–Cedar Avenue building.

Image: Peggy Peterson

Penn Medicine to open new crisis response center at Cedar Avenue facility

As part of a unified mental health care hub at Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania–Cedar Avenue, the new model brings together emergency, inpatient, and outpatient psychiatric care on the same campus, creating the health system’s second consolidated mental health care site in Philadelphia.

Eric Horvath

Three things to know about BRCA mutations in men
A man sits with a doctor holding an iPad.

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Three things to know about BRCA mutations in men

Kara Maxwell, director of the Men & BRCA Program at the Basser Center, is bridging the knowledge gap about how BRCA mutations affect men.

From Penn Medicine News

Cary Coglianese on regulating machine learning
Abstract scan of brain overlapping a computer chip network.

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Cary Coglianese on regulating machine learning

The Edward B. Shils Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science analyzes the Biden administration’s recent actions concerning the federal government’s use of artificial intelligence.

From Penn Carey Law

Safe and sound: Sonura supports newborn development by sequestering disruptive noise
Sonura team

Recipients of the 2023 President’s Innovation Prize, team Sonura, five bioengineering graduates from the School of Engineering and Applied Science, have created a device that filters out disruptive environmental noises for infants in neonatal intensive care units. Their beanie offers protection and fosters parental connection to newborns while also supporting their development.

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Safe and sound: Sonura supports newborn development by sequestering disruptive noise

A team of five recent graduates from the School of Engineering and Applied Science and recipients of the 2023 President’s Innovation Prize have developed a beanie that filters out harmful noises for infants in neonatal intensive care units.
The Prison Legal Education Project aids those fighting their own incarceration
Felicia Lin, right, with Marco Maldonado and Theophalis Wilson (left) in the stacks of the Penn Law Library.

The Prison Legal Education Project co-founder Felicia Lin, right, with Marco Maldonado and Theophalis Wilson (left) in the stacks of the Penn Law Library.

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The Prison Legal Education Project aids those fighting their own incarceration

Co-founded by Penn Carey Law alumni Felicia Lin and Miriam Nemeth, PLEP supports incarcerated individuals in leading their own successful legal advocacy.

From Penn Carey Law