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Can the White House actually do anything about high meat prices?

PIK Professor Herbert Hovenkamp said government subsidies for new industry entrants are usually not “a market solution” to high prices. “Eventually, you want to establish firms that can stand on their own two feet,” he said.

The omicron surge could be the worst public health challenge of our lifetimes

PIK Professor Ezekiel Emanuel and University of Minnesota colleague Michael T. Osterholm wrote an opinion piece about how the U.S. could better manage the omicron variant. “State and local officials must put in place crisis-management plans to account for a 20 percent reduction in the health care workforces,” they wrote. “To ignore these issues puts our entire country in peril.”

Omicron is a dress rehearsal for the next pandemic

PIK Professor Ezekiel Emanuel said the U.S. hasn’t done a great job making COVID-19 testing accessible and that state-based tracking of the virus is not effective and should be monitored nationally in a uniform fashion.

PIK Professor Kevin Johnson named University Professor

Kevin Johnson, who has appointments in the Perelman School of Medicine and the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and a secondary appointment in the Annenberg School for Communication, will become the David L. Cohen University Professor.

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New insights into T-cell exhaustion could improve cancer immunotherapies

A new Penn Medicine study finds that suppressing key exhaustion genes may allow CAR T cell treatments to be used much more effectively against pancreatic and other solid cancers.

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University professorships for Konrad Kording, George Demiris

Kording, a data scientist who studies the brain, will become the Nathan Francis Mossell University Professor. Demiris, a gerontologist who studies IT to support older adults, will become the Mary Alice Bennett University Professor.

Predicting the future is possible. These ‘superforecasters’ know how

PIK Professor Philip Tetlock was interviewed about why some people are better than others at accurately predicting the future.

Aviation expert claims ‘knee-jerk’ omicron border restrictions show countries haven’t learned much

PIK Professor Ezekiel Emanuel said the Biden administration’s latest updates to travel rules would help slow the spread of the omicron variant, but they could have gone further. “Frankly, I wish they had done a little bit more on mandates for airplane travel [and] interstate travel,” Emanuel said.

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Putting community first, in a new social justice initiative

The Community Collaboratory for Co-Creation, led by Penn Nursing and Penn Engineering, will focus on research, education, and community engagement and outreach.

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