Penn Nursing’s Julie A. Fairman elected to American Philosophical Society
How much does chronic absenteeism cost communities?
According to a report by A. Brooks Bowden of the Graduate School of Education, each student who is chronically absent in California schools creates a $5,630 economic burden to the community.
Baby healed in world’s first gene-editing therapy; Indian-origin doctor plays key role
Kiran Musunuru and Rebecca Ahrens-Nicklas of the Perelman School of Medicine led colleagues at Penn and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia to treat a baby with a rare genetic disorder using a customized gene-editing treatment.

(Clockwise from top left) Sona Sundaramurthy with her husband, Anantha Puthucode (right), and Andrzej Biesiekirski (left) in Panama City; Alfonso L. Corcuera (left) and Biesiekirski in Seoul; Edmond Chan (right) at a Philadelphia social gathering; Corcuera and wife Maria Fernanda Iniestra in San Francisco; Sundaramurthy harvests cassava in Bangkok; executive MBA students in Berlin.
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Wharton graduates first Global Executive MBA cohort

Artworks by the two master of fine arts students graduating in the Class of 2025, Eissa Attar (left) and Alvin Luong, are in a thesis exhibition at the Arthur Ross Gallery through a new collaboration with the Weitzman School of Design.
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‘Scattered Earth, Sounded Depth’

Penn Medicine’s Kiran Musunuru and Rebecca Ahrens-Nicklas holding KJ post infusion.
(Image: Courtesy of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia)
World’s first patient treated with personalized CRISPR gene editing therapy through CHOP and Penn Med collaboration

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Know before you go: Commencement 2025
Bhuvnesh Jain of the School of Arts & Sciences has teamed up with PIK University Professor René Vidal of the Perelman School of Medicine and the School of Engineering and Applied Science to create the AI x Science Fellowship offering postdoctoral researchers across the University opportunities to collaborate across disciplines.
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AI x Science Postdoctoral Fellowship
This baby’s future was bleak. Then he became a medical first
A team from the Perelman School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia led by Kiran Musunuru and Rebecca Ahrens-Nicklas has developed a customized CRISPR gene editing therapy that could be scaled to fit the needs of individual patients.