PURM students spent the summer researching the neurobiology of stress resilience in the lab of Seema Bhatnagar, anesthesiology and critical care professor in the Perelman School of Medicine.
The “Young Benjamin Franklin” statue in front of Weightman Hall on 33rd street depicts Penn’s founder as the 17-year-old who arrived in Philadelphia 300 years ago.
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An inauspicious arrival for the ambitious Benjamin Franklin
Penn’s founder arrived in Philadelphia on Oct. 6 300 years ago as a nearly penniless 17-year-old looking for a job as a printer.
Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman were named winners of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday, Oct. 2. The Penn Medicine community came together to celebrate the duo.
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‘A booster for all of us’
The Penn Medicine community gathered Monday afternoon, toasting to Penn’s new Nobel laureates.
A ceramic vase with the face of the artist’s father on one side and Benjamin Franklin’s on the other is on view in the Van-Pelt Dietrich Library Center.
Mentored by Vijay Balasubramanian of the School of Arts & Sciences, third-year Lily Wei spent the summer deciphering how the brain recognizes auditory objects.
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Decoding acoustic objects
Third-year student Lily Wei spent the summer conducting research in the lab of Vijay Balasubramanian using algorithms to propose how the brain may recognize acoustic objects.
David Raizen, left, and PURM student Hina Sako working in the Raizen Lab.
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An unsolved mystery: Why are we sleepy when sick?
David Raizen, a professor of neurology, alongside PURM student Hina Sako, spent the summer moving forward research examining how sickness affects sleep.
