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Dan Powell

Daniel Powell, an associate professor in the Perelman School of Medicine, has helped lead numerous discoveries out of his lab in the Smilow Center for Translational Research.

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Researchers provide imagination and creativity. Penn provides the resources and infrastructure. This leads to what President Amy Gutmann calls “perfect impact.”

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Understanding the immune response to a persistent pathogen
Microscopic view of toxoplasma gondii cells.

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Understanding the immune response to a persistent pathogen

Penn Vet researchers show that the immune system can recognize and control the latent stage of the parasite Toxoplasma gondii, a finding that can inform the study of latency in other infections of the nervous system.

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