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Pregnancy, childbirth, the pandemic, and stress
masked mother with baby on bed

Though many of the individuals who are part of Project IGNITE knew each other from previous partnerships or overlapping research interests, no prior project matched the intended scope of IGNITE. It aims to merge research on maternal-fetal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, psychiatry, psychology, neonatology, and pediatrics

Pregnancy, childbirth, the pandemic, and stress

For two years, the interdisciplinary Project IGNITE has followed 1,000 pregnant individuals and their children to learn more about what role environmental factors play in preterm birth, poor pregnancy outcomes, and social and emotional development.

Michele W. Berger

Penn’s Way charitable campaign supports those in need
People waving towels in the air while seated at tables.

On Sept 28, attendees kick off this year's Penn's Way: "Going the Distance for our Community," campaign at a luncheon in Houston Hall.

Penn’s Way charitable campaign supports those in need

President Liz Magill along with Penn’s Way co-chairs Maureen Rush and Patricia Sullivan recently kicked off the 2023 Penn’s Way campaign.

Dee Patel

Defining neural ‘representation’
A computer screen displays the brain activity of a man with electrodes on his head.

Neuroscientists use the word “represent” to encompass multifaceted relationships between brain activity, behavior, and the environment.

Defining neural ‘representation’

Neuroscientists frequently say that neural activity ‘represents’ certain phenomena, PIK Professor Konrad Kording and postdoc Ben Baker led a study that took a philosophical approach to tease out what the term means.

Marilyn Perkins

$50M gift to accelerate Colton Center for Autoimmunity at Penn Medicine
Eight people standing in front of a sign that reads The Colton Center for Autoimmunity, including E. John Wherry, Liz Magill, Larry Jameson, and Kevin Mahoney.

Jonathan Epstein, Penn Medicine’s chief scientific officer; Ezekiel Emanuel, vice provost for global initiatives; Dean J. Larry Jameson; Penn President Liz Magill; Judy and Stewart Colton; E. John Wherry, chair of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics; and University of Pennsylvania Health System CEO Kevin Mahoney.

$50M gift to accelerate Colton Center for Autoimmunity at Penn Medicine

The center for autoimmune research brings together star faculty, powering the next generation of autoimmune disease advances.
$55M gift creates new ‘Cancer Interception’ Institute at Penn’s Basser Center for BRCA to stop hereditary cancers at the earliest stages
J. Larry Jameson, Susan Domcheck, Liz Magill, Mindy Gray, and Jon Gray in front of a sign that reads Basser Center for BRCA.

(Left to right) J. Larry Jameson, executive vice president of the University of Pennsylvania for the Health System; Susan Domchek, executive director of the Basser Center, Penn President Liz Magill, and Penn alumni Mindy and Jon Gray celebrate the gift to establish a new Basser Cancer Interception Institute.

$55M gift creates new ‘Cancer Interception’ Institute at Penn’s Basser Center for BRCA to stop hereditary cancers at the earliest stages

Funding for the Institute from Mindy and Jon Gray will propel early detection and prevention of breast, ovarian, pancreatic, and prostate cancers.

Holly Auer

Exploring what it means to be curious
Book cover of Curious Minds: The Power of Connection by Perry Zurn and Dani S. Bassett along side image of the two scholars

Exploring what it means to be curious

In a new book “Curious Minds: The Power of Connection,” Penn’s Dani S. Bassett and twin sibling Perry Zurn weave together history, linguistics, network science, neuroscience, and philosophy to unpack the concept of curiosity.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Ultrasound medical education puts insight in hand
ultrasound training boot camp

(Homepage image) Second-year students practice ultrasound-guided IV insertion on specialized manikin arms, supervised by their fourth-year TAs.

Ultrasound medical education puts insight in hand

An integrated four-year ultrasound curriculum helps Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine students build competence and confidence in the classroom and the clinic.

Karen L. Brooks for Penn Medicine Magazine