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Side Gigs for Good during COVID-19
Person wearing a face mask in a grocery store standing next to a shopping cart.

Side Gigs for Good during COVID-19

Whether making masks, writing letters, raising funds, or shopping for neighbors, members of the Penn community have stepped up during the pandemic to support those in need.

Michele W. Berger , Katherine Unger Baillie

Steep decline in organ transplants amid COVID-19 outbreak
Two medical professionals in scrubs perform surgery in an operating room.

Steep decline in organ transplants amid COVID-19 outbreak

France and the United States have experienced a significant reduction in the number of organ donations and solid organ transplant procedures since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Penn Medicine

Activating an estrogen receptor can stop pancreatic cancer cells from growing
Microscopic view of pancreatic cancer cells

Activating an estrogen receptor can stop pancreatic cancer cells from growing

Activating the G protein-coupled estrogen receptor has been shown to stop pancreatic cancer from growing, but may also make tumors more visible to the immune system and thus more susceptible to modern immunotherapy.

John Infanti

Nurses go beyond the caregiving
The entrance to a hospital. People in personal protective equipment swab others as they enter the building.

Nurses at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, seen here in personal protective equipment, use thermal scanners to check the temperature of every person who enters the facility. (Image: Daniel Burke)

Nurses go beyond the caregiving

In the face of a disease that requires physical separation from other human beings, these care providers have extended their role, taking on tasks usually relegated to others and sitting in as family and friends to the ill.

Michele W. Berger

Gaze and pupil dilation can reveal a decision before it’s made
A person in a suit and button-down shirt sitting on a stairwell landing, smiling. The intricate white stairwell and a brick wall behind it are to the person's right.

Penn Integrates Knowledge professor Michael Platt holds appointments in the Department of Psychology in the School of Arts & Sciences, the Department of Neuroscience in the Perelman School of Medicine, and the Marketing Department in the Wharton School.

Gaze and pupil dilation can reveal a decision before it’s made

These two biomarkers may offer clues into the underlying biological processes at play in decision making, according to research from neuroscientist Michael Platt.

Michele W. Berger

Sniffing out an unusually common phenomenon in COVID-19 patients
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.

Penn Medicine

Coming together to solve the many scientific mysteries of COVID-19
Colorized scanning electron micrograph of an apoptotic cell (green) heavily infected with SARS-COV-2 virus particles (purple), isolated from a patient sample.

Colorized scanning electron micrograph of an apoptotic cell (green) heavily infected with SARS-COV-2 virus particles (purple), isolated from a patient sample. Image captured and color-enhanced at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Maryland. (Image: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH)

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.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Inside the pandemic’s most deadly targets: Nursing homes
Empty hallway in a nursing home with an electric wheelchair and a walker by a sunlit door

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.

Hoag Levins