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Penn’s Psychiatry chair is helping to reenvision how mental illness is diagnosed

Maria Oquendo is leading a task force to reimagine the future of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

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$50 million gift to launch the Lurie Autism Institute

The transformational gift to Penn Medicine and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia will establish a joint initiative for autism research and treatment.

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Could gene therapy restore lost hearing?

Experts at Penn Medicine are working to understand the genetic architecture of hearing loss in adults at the Penn Center for Adult-Onset Hearing Loss.

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Penn Nursing’s Jane Muir wins national research award

Muir, an assistant professor in the Department of Family and Community Health at Penn Nursing and emergency medicine at Penn Medicine, and a senior fellow in the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research and in the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, has won the 2025 Nurse Researcher Award from the Emergency Nurses Association. The award honors individuals who have significantly contributed to the field of emergency nursing through research, dissemination of findings, and/or utilization of research to improve patient outcomes.

Sibe-by-side portraits of Brynn Sherman, on left, and Kieran Murphy, right.

AI x Science Postdoctoral Fellows collaborate across disciplines

The new fellowship program, offered through the School of Arts & Sciences and the School of Engineering and Applied Science, offers mentorship and peer engagement opportunities.

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Improving T-cell responses to vaccines

Penn Vet and Penn Medicine researchers have modified mRNA vaccines to include the cytokine IL-12 and improve T-cell responses which could improve the body’s ability to fight infections.

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Trials aim to make cancer relapse a thing of the past

At Penn Medicine, clinical trials are testing methods that may stop cancer from recurring.

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David Zhang conducting the Penn Orchestra.

Brothers follow similar paths in music and medicine

Daniel Zhang co-founded the Penn Medicine Symphony Orchestra in 2016 and served as its founding conductor. When moved into residency training, his brother David stepped up; he is the orchestra’s current music director and conductor.

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The human brain as though it is being scanned.

Dual-target CAR T-cell therapy slows growth of aggressive brain cancer

Researchers from Penn Medicine have demonstrated encouraging tumor reductions rarely seen in recurrent glioblastoma following phase I clinical trials.

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Medical brain scans on multiple computer screens.

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.

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Penn’s Psychiatry chair is helping to reenvision how mental illness is diagnosed

$50 million gift to launch the Lurie Autism Institute

Could gene therapy restore lost hearing?

Penn Nursing’s Jane Muir wins national research award

AI x Science Postdoctoral Fellows collaborate across disciplines

Improving T-cell responses to vaccines

Trials aim to make cancer relapse a thing of the past

Brothers follow similar paths in music and medicine

Dual-target CAR T-cell therapy slows growth of aggressive brain cancer

A hard reset on electroconvulsive therapy