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A hard reset on electroconvulsive therapy
Medical brain scans on multiple computer screens.

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A hard reset on electroconvulsive therapy

New research from Penn Medicine finds that ECT sets in motion a brain event that resets its neurons, and has the potential to guide personalized ECT dosing to target specific outcomes in the brain.

From Penn Medicine News

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What’s That? The Pyramid at HUP
A red pyramid stands in a courtyard at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

The pyramid in Miller Plaza is often mistaken for a large art installation but instead holds equipment for the Devon MRI Building.

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What’s That? The Pyramid at HUP

Turning down a hallway at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania reveals a giant red pyramid. It looks like it’s art, but it’s medicine.
Delivering a one-two punch to superbugs to fight infections
Rakesh Krishnan sits at a computer staring at a 3D rendering of a protein.

Researchers led by César de la Fuente of the Perelman School of Medicine have created new peptides that fight hard-to-treat “superbug” infections by punching holes in bacterial cells and stimulating immune cells to signal for more defenders.

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Delivering a one-two punch to superbugs to fight infections

Penn researchers create mirror-image molecules that both kill pathogens outright and rally the immune system—an advance aimed at the growing crisis of antimicrobial resistance.

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Neurobowl reimagines how the next generation of neurologists is trained
Sashank Prasad and Raymond Price.

Sashank Prasad (left), chief of Neurology at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, and Raymond Price, chief of Neurology at Pennsylvania Hospital.

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Neurobowl reimagines how the next generation of neurologists is trained

Sashank Prasad and Raymond Price have collaborated for years on an online quiz-show to teach uncommon neurological conditions for Penn Medicine students, and have introduced the program to other institutions as well.

From Penn Medicine News

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World’s first patient treated with personalized CRISPR gene editing therapy through CHOP and Penn Med collaboration
Kiran Musunuru and Rebecca Ahrens-Nicklas holding KJ in the hospital.

Penn Medicine’s Kiran Musunuru and Rebecca Ahrens-Nicklas holding KJ post infusion.

(Image: Courtesy of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia)

World’s first patient treated with personalized CRISPR gene editing therapy through CHOP and Penn Med collaboration

A landmark study from CHOP and Penn Medicine showcases the power of customized gene editing therapy to treat a patient with a rare metabolic disease

Matt Toal

5 min. read

AI x Science Postdoctoral Fellowship
Aerial shot of Amy Guttman Hall

Bhuvnesh Jain of the School of Arts & Sciences has teamed up with PIK University Professor René Vidal of the Perelman School of Medicine and the School of Engineering and Applied Science to create the AI x Science Fellowship offering postdoctoral researchers across the University opportunities to collaborate across disciplines.

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AI x Science Postdoctoral Fellowship

Bhuvnesh Jain and René Vidal have teamed up to create the AI x Science Fellowship, which builds on the thriving postdoctoral program of the Data Driven Discovery Initiative to foster cross-disciplinary collaboration among researchers across the University.

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A mothers’ meetup like no other for families formed through uterus transplant
Two people embrace at a uterine transplant meetup lunch with a baby in a stroller and gifts on a conference table.

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A mothers’ meetup like no other for families formed through uterus transplant

One week before Mother’s Day, those who gave birth through uterus transplant gathered for a special brunch with those who donated their uteruses for the procedure, and their respective families.

Alex Gardner

2 min. read

Soon-to-be-graduate hopes to deliver primary care to rural communities
Chip Chambers stands on college campus.

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Soon-to-be-graduate hopes to deliver primary care to rural communities

Fueled by his faith, Chip Chambers, a fifth-year M.D./M.B.A. student in the Perelman School of Medicine and Wharton School, has always looked for ways to serve.“My faith is a huge motivator of everything that I do. I just believe that I’ve been blessed with a lot of things that I didn’t earn and that I have a responsibility to steward those for the good of other people and not for myself,” Chambers says.

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