Medicine

A Penn program offers low-income patients extra support after a hospital stay—with virtual teams knitting together a safety net to reduce readmissions.

The newly-elected members are Gerd A. Blobel, co-director of Penn's Epigenetics Institute; Enrique Schisterman, chair and Perelman Professor of biostatistics, epidemiology, and informatics; and Katalin Susztak, professor of nephrology and genetics and director of the Kidney Innovation Center at Penn and CHOP.

The $401 million project will expand access to advanced health care for patients and families in Central New Jersey and beyond. The Penn Medicine Princeton Cancer Center is scheduled to open in May 2028.

The division chief of Hematology-Oncology in the Perelman School of Medicine will serve as the incoming vice president of the American Society of Hematology.

After her twin tested BRCA2-positive, Brooklyn Olumba got tested, leading to her own cancer diagnosis. Now she’s educating other young women of color.

The two organizations will expand leading community initiatives including the existing Penn Medicine Assist program, Nurse of the Game initiative, Gritty 5K sponsorship, and create opportunities for critical care training for employees, players, and people across Philadelphia and beyond.

To treat stimulant use disorder more like other chronic diseases, researchers at Penn Medicine have created a prediction tool to identify who may be at risk and what they have in common.

Six researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine have been recognized for their creative research through the National Institutes of Health Director’s awards from the NIH Common Fund’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research program for their unconventional approaches to major challenges in biomedical and behavioral research.

Brady, the 2026 recipient of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Ruth Kirschstein Award for Maximizing Access in Science, shares her approach to creating opportunities for all.

César de la Fuente leverages machine learning to accelerate the discovery of lifesaving drugs and help reduce antibiotic resistance, a rising global health problem.