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$50M gift to accelerate Colton Center for Autoimmunity at Penn Medicine
$50M gift to accelerate Colton Center for Autoimmunity at Penn Medicine
The center for autoimmune research brings together star faculty, powering the next generation of autoimmune disease advances.
Helping transgender patients navigate health care
Helping transgender patients navigate health care
Penn Medicine Center for Health Equity Advancement and Penn’s Program for LGBTQ Health works to address the specific health care needs of gender diverse patients.
Inflammation is not always linked to depression
Inflammation is not always linked to depression
A new Penn Medicine study finds that late-life depression is not linked to inflammation when other inflammatory conditions are excluded, but that depression occurs independently of inflammation.
Match Day 2022: Persevering through the pandemic to become physicians
Match Day 2022: Persevering through the pandemic to become physicians
On March 18, 160 graduating Perelman School of Medicine students celebrated Match Day at the Jordan Medical Education Center, along with their peers, friends, and family members.
How to safeguard your sleep from insomnia over COVID-19 worry
How to safeguard your sleep from insomnia over COVID-19 worry
Penn Medicine research have tips for helping insomnia, which has seen an increase throughout the pandemic. It’s not just the disease—worrying about COVID has contributed to lack of sleep.
Penn study details robust T-cell response to mRNA COVID-19 vaccines
Penn study details robust T-cell response to mRNA COVID-19 vaccines
The results underline the importance of a second dose and include implications for booster shots.
Minimizing disruption, maximizing sleep in the hospital
Minimizing disruption, maximizing sleep in the hospital
The Pavilion at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania has embraced the challenge of design for minimizing sleep disruption in hospitals.
Clarifying T cell ‘exhaustion’
Clarifying T cell ‘exhaustion’
T cells, which are among the most powerful weapons in the immune systems of humans and other vertebrates, remain substantially programmed to stay exhausted even many weeks after exposure to a virus ended.
Neuro-oncologist joins Penn’s mission to fight brain cancer
Neuro-oncologist joins Penn’s mission to fight brain cancer
Richard Phillips, a Presidential Assistant Professor of Neurology and member of the Penn Epigenetics Institute, hopes to bring glioma research out of the “basement.”
Rapid COVID-19 diagnostic test delivers accurate results within 4 minutes
Rapid COVID-19 diagnostic test delivers accurate results within 4 minutes
The low-cost biosensor test developed by Penn Medicine could extend COVID-19 testing with 90% accuracy to remote and disadvantaged areas.