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Four Penn Professors Among 2017 Class of AAAS Fellows

Four Penn Professors Among 2017 Class of AAAS Fellows

Four members of the University of Pennsylvania faculty have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Election as an AAAS Fellow is an honor bestowed upon members of AAAS, the world’s largest general scientific society, by their peers.

Katherine Unger Baillie , Greg Richter , Ali Sundermier

First Microscopic Video of Blood Clot Contraction Reveals How Platelets Naturally Form Unobtrusive Clots

First Microscopic Video of Blood Clot Contraction Reveals How Platelets Naturally Form Unobtrusive Clots

The first view of the physical mechanism of how a blood clot contracts at the level of individual platelets is giving researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania a new look at a natural process that is part of blood clotting. A team led by John W.

Karen Kreeger

Paving a New Path to Parenthood: Penn Medicine Launches First Clinical Trial for Uterine Transplant in the Northeast

Paving a New Path to Parenthood: Penn Medicine Launches First Clinical Trial for Uterine Transplant in the Northeast

Penn Medicine will conduct the Northeast’s first clinical trial of uterine transplants, to provide women with Uterine Factor Infertility (UFI) - an irreversible form of female infertility that affects as many as 5 percent of women worldwide and 50,000 women in the United States - with a new path to parenthood.

Abbey Anderson

Penn Medicine: Blood Flow in the Developing Heart Guides Maturation of Heart Valves

Penn Medicine: Blood Flow in the Developing Heart Guides Maturation of Heart Valves

Congenital heart valve defects appear in 2 percent of all live births, making them the most common type of birth defect. While some of these defects have been linked to specific genetic mutations, the majority have no clearly definable genetic cause, suggesting that epigenetic factors – changes in gene expression versus an alteration in the genetic code -- play an important role.