Skip to Content Skip to Content
Articles from Karen Kreeger
Institute of Medicine Elects Four New Members From Penn

Institute of Medicine Elects Four New Members From Penn

Four professors from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have been elected members of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), one of the nation's highest honors in biomedicine. Three of the four new inductees are women.The new members bring Penn's total to 76, out of a total active membership of 1,649.

Karen Kreeger

First Clinical Trial Exploring Effects of a New, Immune System-Based Agent in Advanced Melanoma

First Clinical Trial Exploring Effects of a New, Immune System-Based Agent in Advanced Melanoma

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Immunocore Limited, Oxford, UK, today announced that a targeted agent that may have a role in treating advanced metastatic melanoma in the future has received Investigational New Drug (IND) approval and is opening enrollment for clinical trials in the UK and USA.

Karen Kreeger

Using the Structure of the Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor to Fight Cancer

Using the Structure of the Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor to Fight Cancer

PHILADELPHIA - Many types of tumors grow because of over-expression or a mutation of a protein called the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), normally regulated by a hormone-like peptide called the epidermal growth factor (EGF).

Karen Kreeger

Rescuing Fruit Flies from Alzheimer’s Disease

Rescuing Fruit Flies from Alzheimer’s Disease

Investigators have found that fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) males -- in which the activity of an Alzheimer’s disease protein is reduced by 50 percent -- show impairments in learning and memory as they age.

Karen Kreeger

Penn Geneticist Named 2010 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences

Penn Geneticist Named 2010 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences

The Pew Charitable Trusts named Zhaolan (Joe) Zhou, PhD, assistant professor of Genetics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, as a 2010 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences.

Karen Kreeger

Jumping Genes Provide Extensive “Raw Material” for Evolution, Penn Study Finds

Jumping Genes Provide Extensive “Raw Material” for Evolution, Penn Study Finds

PHILADELPHIA - Using high-throughput sequencing to map the locations of a common type of jumping gene within a person’s entire genome, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine found extensive variation in these locations among the individuals they studied, further underscoring the role of these errant genes in maintaining genetic

Karen Kreeger

Load More