Perelman School of Medicine

Person wearing a protective face covering holds a flower to their nose in attempt to smell its scent.

Sniffing out an unusually common phenomenon in COVID-19 patients

Researchers at Penn Medicine are working to understand how the COVID-19 virus works, and are finding it has unusual range in symptoms and behavior, including a loss of smell in some patients.

Researchers discover a key mechanism of cytokine storm in Castleman Disease

The discovery by Penn researchers may be applicable to COVID-19 patients, as some experience the same hyper-response of the immune system.

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Coming together to solve the many scientific mysteries of COVID-19

Putting some of their regular research projects on the back burner, researchers around Penn are digging into unknowns about the novel coronavirus from their deep and varied perspectives.

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Inside the pandemic’s most deadly targets: Nursing homes

The fourth in an ongoing series of LDI “Experts at Home” virtual seminars focused on how the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the cracks in how we fund and staff nursing home care.

Q&A

Why risk behaviors, not orientation, should decide who gives blood

In a Q&A with Assistant Professor of Medicine Katharine Bar, an explanation on how the ban of blood donations on men who have sex with men came to be, why it persists, and what it should be changed to.

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Q&A

Language in tweets offers insight into community-level well-being

In a Q&A, researcher Lyle Ungar discusses why counties that frequently use words like ‘love’ aren’t necessarily happier, plus how techniques from this work led to a real-time COVID-19 wellness map.

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Coronavirus models aren’t crystal balls. So what are they good for?

Epidemiologists and data scientists have been gathering data, making calculations, and creating mathematical models to answer critical questions about COVID-19, but math cannot account for the unpredictability of human behavior.

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As society looks for a ‘new normal,’ is antibody testing a way forward?

Penn experts discuss the limitations of commercial antibody tests, how scientists are assessing the true scale of COVID-19 infections, and what studies are being done to see who might now be immune to the novel coronavirus.

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Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Carl June elected to National Academy of Sciences

The researchers, from the Annenberg Public Policy Center and the Perelman School of Medicine, join a class of honored scholars recognized for their unique and ongoing contributions to original research.

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Health care education in a virtual world

For future health care providers, moving education online has proved especially challenging. With ingenuity and creativity, faculty are helping them continue gaining the skills they’ll need.

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