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Avery Posey’s cancer research takes high risks for big rewards
Avery Posey in a medical lab wearing a white coat.

Avery Posey, Jr., an assistant professor of systems pharmacology and translational therapeutics. (Image: Penn Medicine News)

Avery Posey’s cancer research takes high risks for big rewards

The assistant professor of systems pharmacology and translational therapeutics, who studied with Carl June as a postdoctoral fellow, combines his two research passions—gene therapy and investigating ‘little known’ biology—in the pursuit of new knowledge.

From Penn Medicine News

More Side Gigs for Good during COVID-19
Children receive food from people working at a table wearing masks

As the pandemic hit, recent grad Alexandria Brake (holding “Go Team” sign) and colleagues at the St. James School in North Philadelphia began distributing groceries and other supplies to students and their families. (Image: Courtesy of Alexandria Brake)

More Side Gigs for Good during COVID-19

In the latest installment of the Side Gigs for Good series, Penn Today hears from faculty, staff, and students who have been continuing to care for their communities as the pandemic’s effects stretch on.

Katherine Unger Baillie, Michele W. Berger

PennPraxis Design Fellows take on the real world with design solutions
Person standing in front of a group of people seated around tables presenting talking points on paper.

Matt Miller, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of City and Regional Planning, working on an engagement strategy for The Park at Penn’s Landing. (Pre-pandemic image: PennPraxis)

PennPraxis Design Fellows take on the real world with design solutions

PennPraxis has expanded the scope of experience for graduate students since its founding in 2001, and now 80 Design Fellows are involved in ambitious interdisciplinary design projects.

From the Weitzman School of Design

A new way of thinking about motion, movement, and the concept of time
Jumping a hurdle; saddle; clearing, landing and recovering Plate 637, with key words “Jumping a hurdle; saddle; clearing, landing and recovering,” model is bay horse Daisy. (Image: University of Pennsylvania Archives)

A new way of thinking about motion, movement, and the concept of time

Eadweard Muybridge’s “Animal Locomotion” was the first scientific study to use photography. Now, more than 130 years later, Muybridge’s work is seen as both an innovation in photography and the science of movement, alongside his personal legacy as someone with an eccentric 19th century style and a dark past.

Erica K. Brockmeier

Computer-generated antibiotics and biosensor Band-Aids
cesar de la fuente in his lab

Computer-generated antibiotics and biosensor Band-Aids

For Penn synthetic biologist César de la Fuente and his team, these concepts aren’t some far-off ideal. They’re projects already in progress, and they have huge real-world implications should they succeed.

Michele W. Berger

Penn team creates first bile duct-on-a-chip
Closeup microscope medical technology

Penn team creates first bile duct-on-a-chip

The miniature, fabricated organ, replicating the structure and cellular makeup of the tissue, may lead to better understanding of the organ system and the differences between child and adult bile ducts.

Penn Today Staff

Can neutrinos help explain what’s the matter with antimatter?
a particle accelerator, a long copper tube that follows down a basement corridor below lines of tubes and wires, a group of scientists in lab coats talk with each other on the side of the room

Can neutrinos help explain what’s the matter with antimatter?

Results of a new study will help physicists establish a cutting-edge neutrino research facility to study some of the most abundant yet least understood particles in the universe.

Erica K. Brockmeier

Researchers think small to make progress toward better fuel cells
an x-ray scattering system made out of a long white tube connected to a sample box at one end. lee is shown in two separate images placing a sample inside of the box, partially obscured behind darkened panel glass

Researchers think small to make progress toward better fuel cells

A collaborative study describes how fuel cells, which use chemical energy to power cars and devices, can be developed to be more cost-effective and efficient in the long term.

Erica K. Brockmeier

A wearable new technology moves brain monitoring from the lab to the real world
Two people standing in a lab space, holding headbands.

Postdoc Arjun Ramakrishnan (left) and Penn Integrates Knowledge professor Michael Platt created a wearable EEG akin to a Fitbit for the brain, with a set of silicon and silver nanowire sensors embedded into a head covering like the headband seen here. The new technology led to the formation of a company called Cogwear, LLC.

A wearable new technology moves brain monitoring from the lab to the real world

The portable EEG created by PIK Professor Michael Platt and postdoc Arjun Ramakrishnan has potential applications from health care to sports performance.

Michele W. Berger