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Brain research could help patients with paralysis move again
Iahn Cajigas and Qasim Qureshi review data on a desktop computer.

Iahn Cajigas and researcher Qasim Qureshi review data to identify consistent patterns in brain activity that will enable them to predict a patient’s intention to move in real time.

(Image: Courtesy of Penn Medicine News)

Brain research could help patients with paralysis move again

Penn Medicine researchers are using machine learning to study the areas of the brain that control movement.

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Your brain on beauty
Judith Schaechter and Anjan Chatterjee looking at her stained glass installation.

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Your brain on beauty

At the Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics, researchers explore what exactly the brain is doing when it experiences art, and what artists are doing when they create art out of their experiences.

S.I. Rosenbaum for Penn Medicine Magazine

Researchers to advance imaging of Parkinson’s diseases
A researcher looking at brain scans on a computer in a lab.

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Researchers to advance imaging of Parkinson’s diseases

A Penn-led collaboration of radiology, computational chemistry, and neurology experts will identify and test new tracers for PET scans to help diagnose and monitor diseases.

Kelsey Geesler

Brain tumor organoids accurately model patient response to CAR T cell therapy
Microscopic view of a glioblastoma organoid.

Patient-derived glioblastoma organoid treated with dual-target CAR-T cells. T cells (magenta) infiltrate the tumor organoid and kill tumor cells (blue; yellow indicates dying cells).

(Image: Yusha Sun and Xin Wang from the laboratories of Guo-li Ming and Hongjun Song)

Brain tumor organoids accurately model patient response to CAR T cell therapy

Lab-grown tumors respond to cell therapy the same as tumors in the patients’ brains, according to researchers at Penn Medicine.

Kelsey Geesler

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Care across cultures: Penn Medicine African Health Clinic
Members of Penn’s African Health Clinic.

From check-ups to managing diabetes, treating common illnesses, and X-raying injured extremities, the care team handles a variety of patients’ needs right from the off-site clinics.

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Care across cultures: Penn Medicine African Health Clinic

For the last two years, the Perelman School of Medicine has partnered with the African Family Health Organization to offer weekly family-medicine/primary care clinics for recent immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean.

Alex Gardner

A champion for period products in Pennsylvania schools
An adult giving a high school student menstrual pads.

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A champion for period products in Pennsylvania schools

Kayla Cook ensures that all middle and high school students in a Lancaster school district have access to dispensing bins, which hold tampons, pads, and liners in every individual women’s or gender-neutral bathroom stall.

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Mark Cuban’s take on prescription drug pricing models
Zeke Emanuel and Mark Cuban in discussion in front of an audience.

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Mark Cuban’s take on prescription drug pricing models

In late November, hundreds of students, researchers, faculty, and staff from Penn’s Wharton School Health Care Management attended a discussion between entrepreneur Mark Cuban and Ezekiel Emanuel.

Hoag Levins