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Two international students honored with the 2024 Penn Global Student Citizenship Award
Rudie Altamirano, David Kato, Aishwarya Pawar and Amy Gadsden stand next to a tower or red and blue balloons and in front of a sign reading Bringing the world to Penn and Penn to the world.

(Left to right) Rudie Altamirano, executive director of International Student and Scholar Services, Penn Global Student Citizenship Award winners David Kato and Aishwarya Pawar, and Associate Vice Provost for Global Initiatives Amy Gadsden at the awards ceremony at Perry World House.

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Two international students honored with the 2024 Penn Global Student Citizenship Award

Aishwarya Pawar, a Ph.D. student at the Perelman School of Medicine, is the graduate student winner, and David Kato, a fourth-year political science major in the School of Arts & Sciences, is the undergraduate winner.

Kristen de Groot

A Penn team’s push to make research more inclusive
A doctor and patient.

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A Penn team’s push to make research more inclusive

Penn’s Palliative and Advanced Illness Research (PAIR) Center is working to bring more underrepresented racial and ethnic backgrounds into their research, and to train AI models to be free from bias.

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How incentives could better treat stimulant use disorder
A doctor with a patient.

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How incentives could better treat stimulant use disorder

Researchers at Penn Medicine are working to update contingency management protocols and dissemination practices that focus on incentivizing behavior for patients.

Eric Horvath

Gene editing restores some sight in pair of children treated for blindness
A teenager having their eyesight examined.

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Gene editing restores some sight in pair of children treated for blindness

CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing has been found to be safe and largely effective in addressing a form of inherited blindness in a group of patients that, for the first time, included children

Frank Otto

Intervention in Navajo Nation boosts uptake for heart failure drugs by 53%
A sign that reads Welcome to the Navajo Nation.

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Intervention in Navajo Nation boosts uptake for heart failure drugs by 53%

LDI senior fellow Lauren Eberly details her latest study on the Navajo Nation reservation in New Mexico, highlighting the increased uptake of guideline-directed heart failure therapy drugs.

Hoag Levins

The Penn doctor leading the way in heart health with TAVR innovation
Howard Hermann.

Howard Herrmann is the John Winthrop Bryfogle Professor of Cardiovascular Diseases in the Perelman School of Medicine.

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The Penn doctor leading the way in heart health with TAVR innovation

Howard Herrmann, the John Winthrop Bryfogle Professor of Cardiovascular Diseases in the Perelman School of Medicine and Health System director for Interventional Cardiology, is a lead researcher in the TAVR field.

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Addressing declining fertility
Artist rendering of fertility decline. Depopulation, demographic crisis. Baby bottles in the form of graph and down arrow.

In a recent paper, PIK Professor Michael Platt and the Perelman School of Medicine’s Peter Sterling posit that the underlying mechanism of the looming concern of human fertility declines is the epidemic of despair.

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    • Addressing declining fertility

    In a Q&A with Penn Today, Michael Platt talks about the socioeconomic and emotional factors leading to plummeting fertility rates.
    Educate to Empower aims to break down barriers to breast cancer screenings
    Penn fourth-years Simran Rajpal on the left and Gauthami Moorkanatst on the right pose outside Fisher-Bennett Hall on Penn campus.

    “In Philadelphia, in particular West Philly, there’s a lot of communities that don’t have the access to health care that they need, even though Penn is right here,” says Moorkanat (right). “Our thinking behind this was that if we can deliver the resources to them, instead of making them come to Penn, maybe we can start to bridge that gap.”

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    Educate to Empower aims to break down barriers to breast cancer screenings

    With the President’s Engagement Prize, fourth-years Simran Rajpal and Gauthami Moorkanat plan to deliver education and resources directly to community centers in Philadelphia, tackling medical mistrust, health literacy, and more.

    Kristen de Groot