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CHOP and Penn get $50 million to study environmental effects on pregnancy
Philadelphia Inquirer

CHOP and Penn get $50 million to study environmental effects on pregnancy

Heather Burris, Sara B. DeMauro, and Sunni L. Mumford of the Perelman School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia have won a $50 million grant to study how environmental factors affect the health of fetuses, babies, and toddlers.

Penn, CHOP to study how environmental factors affect pregnancy, children’s health
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Penn, CHOP to study how environmental factors affect pregnancy, children’s health

Sunni L. Mumford, Heather Burris, and Sara B. DeMauro of the Perelman School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia have received a $50 million grant to study how environmental factors impact pregnancy and children’s health.

Women of Influence 2023: M. Elizabeth Magill, University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia Business Journal

Women of Influence 2023: M. Elizabeth Magill, University of Pennsylvania

President Liz Magill has been named as one of Philadelphia Business Journal’s Women of Influence in 2023 for her efforts to impact large-scale change and uplift other women.

Five Penn faculty were elected to the National Academy of Medicine
Philadelphia Inquirer

Five Penn faculty were elected to the National Academy of Medicine

PIK Professor Desmond Upton Patton and the Perelman School of Medicine’s Kurt T. Barnhart, Christopher B. Forrest, Susan L. Furth and Robert H. Vonderheide have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine.

Carnot Prize awarded to architect of Uruguay’s energy transition
Liz Magill presents an award to Ramón Méndez Galain.

Penn President Liz Magill presents Ramón Méndez Galain with the 2023 Carnot Prize, in a ceremony at the Kleinman Center Energy Forum.

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Carnot Prize awarded to architect of Uruguay’s energy transition

The Kleinman Center for Energy Policy held a ceremony to honor Ramón Méndez Galain, Uruguay’s former energy director.
Three from Penn receive NIH Director Award
Headshots of Jina Ko, Kevin Johnson, and Sheila Shanmugan

Jina Ko (left) and Kevin Johnson (middle), from both the School of Engineering and the Perelman School of Medicine, along with Sheila Shanmugan (right) from the latter, have received the National Institute of Health Director’s Award to support their “highly innovative and broadly impactful” research projects through the High-Risk, High-Reward program.

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Three from Penn receive NIH Director Award

Kevin B. Johnson, Jina Ko, and Sheila Shanmugan awarded NIH Common Fund’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research program.
‘A booster for all of us’
Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman and a crowd of people at Penn Medicine.

Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman were named winners of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday, Oct. 2. The Penn Medicine community came together to celebrate the duo.

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‘A booster for all of us’

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

Lauren Hertzler