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Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman and a crowd of people at Penn Medicine.

‘A booster for all of us’

The Penn Medicine community gathered Monday afternoon, toasting to Penn’s new Nobel laureates.

Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman wearing lab coats.

Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, Penn’s historic mRNA vaccine research team, win 2023 Nobel Prize in Medicine

The highest honor was bestowed for foundational discoveries that gave the world a vaccine to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.

kariko and weissman at nobel press conference

A wrong number, a cryptic message, and a big Nobel win

Nobel Prize winners Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman share their thoughts on their newly minted honor at a University press conference.

Wrist temperature associated with future risk of disease

A new study from Penn Medicine highlights the potential for monitoring disease risk through inexpensive, unintrusive continuous measures of skin temperature.

An mRNA vaccine against Lyme disease-causing bacteria

In pre-clinical models, researchers at Penn Medicine have developed a vaccine that protects against Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacteria that causes Lyme disease.

The best way to prevent HIV is often out of reach for women and marginalized people

LDI fellows are working with local communities to increase PrEP use through improving the message about the drug, reducing stigma, and normalizing the conversation about HIV infection.

Four bottles of Influenza vaccine beside one medical syringe.

Q&A

This season’s flu and COVID-19 vaccines

Judith A. O’Donnell of the Perelman School of Medicine answers common questions about this year’s flu shot and the new COVID-19 vaccines.

Person scratching at dermatitis on their arms.

Inflammatory bowel disease linked to atopic dermatitis

Findings from researchers from Penn Medicine link an increased risk of inflammatory bowel disease with the presence of atopic dermatitis, which can lead to new treatments for both.

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