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Uniting against an invisible foe
microscopic image of covid-19

A tiny virus has transformed life as we know it. But in nearly every corner of Penn’s campus, researchers are making remarkable progress to combat it.

(Image, also on homepage: National Institutes of Health)

Uniting against an invisible foe

All across the University, researchers have launched new areas of study, reaching across disciplinary boundaries to make stunning progress in combating COVID-19.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Donita Brady is ready for the next steps in cancer biology research
Donita Brady in her office.

Presidential Professor of cancer biology Donita Brady. (Image: Penn Medicine News)

Donita Brady is ready for the next steps in cancer biology research

The Presidential Professor of cancer biology leads a team that is working to understand how cancer grows uncontrolled in cells and discovering novel ways to stop it. 

Melissa Moody

Creative storytelling through TimeSlips
Abstract watercolor of a person playing guitar on a bench.

Creative storytelling through TimeSlips

Through the TimeSlips program at the Penn Memory Center, older individuals are engaged through visual prompts to not just remember, but engage creatively with stimuli.

From Penn Memory Center

Diagnostic imaging may increase risk of testicular cancer
Person inside an MRI machine hooked up to a machine via a monitor on the finger.

Diagnostic imaging may increase risk of testicular cancer

New research shows a statistically significant increased risk of testicular cancer among those reporting at least three exposures to X-ray, including a colon X-ray, and CT below the waist.

Steve Graff

To catch and contain COVID, step two is to process samples
Three medical personnel in full PPE working at a drive-up COVID testing site.

Medical personnel gather nasal swabs at a drive-through COVID testing site in West Philadelphia in March 2020

To catch and contain COVID, step two is to process samples

The second in a series on the steps the health care community takes to quelling the spread of the virus, a look at the 24-hour cycle of testing.

Melissa Moody

Five things to know about the promising COVID-19 vaccine news
Health care worker prepares to give patient a vaccine injection

Five things to know about the promising COVID-19 vaccine news

Drew Weissman of the Perelman School of Medicine, whose work is a key factor helping to enable two vaccines in late stages of testing, sheds light on the biology behind them and on his predictions about next steps in vaccine development and approval.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Researchers find link between food insecurity and cardiovascular death risk
Two people wearing face coverings unload boxes of food for a food bank.

Volunteers at the Food Bank for Monterey County’s drive-through food distribution in June 2020.

Researchers find link between food insecurity and cardiovascular death risk

Increasing rates of food insecurity in counties across the United States are independently associated with an increase in cardiovascular death rates among adults between the ages of 20 and 64.
Parasitic worms offer ‘the missing link’ on the dual nature of a key immune regulator
Microscopic image of cell labeled with red, blue, and green

Samples of nasal polyps removed from patients with chronic rhinosinusitis revealed the perforin-2 protein (labeled in green) in the cellular plasma membrane. A pore protein, perforin-2 may be how IL-33, a key immune signaling molecule, is able to exit these cells to trigger an immune response, according to new work led by a Penn Vet-led team. (Image: Courtesy of De’Broski Herbert)

Parasitic worms offer ‘the missing link’ on the dual nature of a key immune regulator

Whether the signaling molecule IL-33 wakes up or turns down the immune response depends on what cell type releases it, School of Veterinary Medicine researchers found.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Two key events that turn normal cells into cancer
Microscopic view of cells of a living organism.

The findings may inform the development of new therapies that could treat any tumor type.

Two key events that turn normal cells into cancer

The discovery of a unifying mechanism could inform new therapeutic approaches to prevent normal cells from transforming into any type of tumor.

Melissa Moody

To catch and contain COVID-19, testing is step one
A person in full PPE is administering a COVID nasal swab test.

To catch and contain COVID-19, testing is step one

Penn Medicine is partnering with sites around the city to offer COVID testing, contributing to 9% of all testing in the state.

From Penn Medicine News