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Gift to Penn Medicine and CHOP establishes Center for Epilepsy and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Benjamin Prosser with his daughter, Lucy, and wife, Erin.

Benjamin Prosser, director of the new Center for Epilepsy and Neurodevelopmental Disorders, with his daughter, Lucy, and wife, Erin.

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Gift to Penn Medicine and CHOP establishes Center for Epilepsy and Neurodevelopmental Disorders

This $25M gift will bolster the efforts of an interdisciplinary group of clinicians and scientists at Penn and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, led by director Benjamin Prosser, to accelerate research in genetic therapies for neurodevelopmental disorders.

From Penn Medicine News

Black older Americans age faster than white counterparts
African American senior citizen in a wheelchair with a group of people in the background playing a game.

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Black older Americans age faster than white counterparts

According to a new Penn study, inequities in socioeconomic resources is the main cause of biological aging as measured by DNA methylation.

From Penn Memory Center

New approach for brain cell immunotherapy
Microscopic view of Microglia cell and pyramidal neuron.

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New approach for brain cell immunotherapy

Penn Medicine researchers have developed a selective medicine to get rid of old microglia, while also replenishing them with transplanted surrogate cells in their place, suggesting future potential for treating and even preventing neurodegenerative disorders.
Eight Penn professors elected 2022 AAAS Fellows
Two rows of people: William Beltran, Brian Gregory, Insup Lee, Guo-Li Ming. Bottom row: Eric Schelter, Theodore Schurr, Warren Seider, and Karen Winey.

Penn’s new AAAS Fellows for 2022, clockwise from top left: William Beltran, Brian Gregory, Insup Lee, Guo-Li Ming, Karen Winey, Warren Seider, Theodore Schurr, and Eric Schelter.

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Eight Penn professors elected 2022 AAAS Fellows

Researchers from the School of Arts & Sciences, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Perelman School of Medicine, and School of Veterinary Medicine join a class of scientists, engineers, and innovators spanning 24 scientific disciplines.

Michele W. Berger