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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
Penn In the News
The Perelman School of Medicine's Carl June is quoted on his work with David Porter on how CAR T cells can actually cure patients with leukemia.
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PIK Professor Ezekiel Emanuel called for faster access to data from the trials of drugs designed to treat Alzheimer’s disease.
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Rishi Goel of the Perelman School of Medicine commented on his work studying super-immunity, or ‘hybrid immunity,” as most scientists call it.
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David Asch of the Wharton School weighed in on a study that found text message reminders boosted vaccination rates in California. “I’m still sometimes amazed at how subtle changes and wording can make a difference,” he said.
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Eve Higginbotham of the Perelman School of Medicine led a team that surveyed women working in academic STEM fields about their experiences during the first six months of the pandemic. Researchers found that 28% reported an increased workload, 25% reported decreased productivity, and two-thirds reported negative impacts on their personal well-being.
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Cynthia Otto of the School of Veterinary Medicine spoke about training dogs to identify COVID-19 infections by scent. “The dogs can do it. The challenge is the ignorance that we have as humans as to what can confuse the dogs,” she says.
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Abass Alavi of the Perelman School of Medicine spoke about a new version of a PET scanner that can generate 3D renderings of the entire human body in just seconds, a fraction of the time required by older iterations. “The whole-body machine is another quantum jump in medical imaging,” said Alavi.
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Brian Chow of the School of Engineering and Applied Science led a team of Penn undergrads in developing a low-cost plate reader for teaching labs using open-source automation software. “Philosophically, I believe in supporting the open-source-hardware community,” he said.
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Diane Spatz of the School of Nursing discussed her research about on-campus lactation spaces. “The research is indisputable that breastfeeding improves the lives of individual mothers and infants and results in overall better societal outcomes,” said Spatz.
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Post-doc Daniel Himmelstein of the Perelman School of Medicine discussed problematic elements of GitHub’s model. “Regardless of the Microsoft acquisition, GitHub, as a centralized and closed company, possesses a dangerous level of control over the open-source ecosystem,” said Himmelstein.