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Penn Medicine Study: Proton Therapy Cuts Side Effects for Pediatric Head and Neck Cancer Patients

Penn Medicine Study: Proton Therapy Cuts Side Effects for Pediatric Head and Neck Cancer Patients

The precise targeting and limited dosing of radiation via proton therapy is proving to be an advantage in ongoing efforts to reduce treatment side effects among head and neck cancer patients, according to a new study of pediatric patients from researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Holly Auer

Penn Study Shows New Islet Cell Transplant Procedure Offers Improved Outcomes for Patients with Type 1 Diabetes

Penn Study Shows New Islet Cell Transplant Procedure Offers Improved Outcomes for Patients with Type 1 Diabetes

The latest approach to islet transplantation, in which clusters of insulin-producing cells known as islets are transplanted from a donor pancreas into another person’s liver, has produced substantially improved results for patients with type 1 diabetes, and may offer a more durable alternative to a whole pancreas transplant.

Katie Delach

Penn Medicine Researchers Harness the Immune System to Fight Pancreatic Cancer

Penn Medicine Researchers Harness the Immune System to Fight Pancreatic Cancer

Pancreatic cancer ranks as the fourth-leading cause of cancer death in the United States, and is one of the most deadly forms of cancer, due to its resistance to standard treatments with chemotherapy and radiation therapy and frequently, its late stage at the time of diagnosis.

Holly Auer

Penn Researchers Hornik and Lerman Receive $20 Million in Federal Funding to Establish Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science

Penn Researchers Hornik and Lerman Receive $20 Million in Federal Funding to Establish Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science

A $20 million federal grant will create the University of Pennsylvania Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science (Penn TCORS). A first-of-its-kind regulatory science research enterprise, the new center is designed to conduct studies to inform the regulation of tobacco products to protect public health.  The new grant is supported by the U.S.

Holly Auer , Joseph Diorio

Fish Skin Immune Responses Resemble That of the Gut, Penn Study Finds

Fish Skin Immune Responses Resemble That of the Gut, Penn Study Finds

Fish skin is unique in that it lacks keratin, the fibrous protein found in mammalian skin that provides a barrier against the environment. Instead, the epithelial cells of fish skin are in direct contact with the immediate environment: water.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Two Penn Students Awarded HHMI International Research Fellowships

Two Penn Students Awarded HHMI International Research Fellowships

Two doctoral students from the University of Pennsylvania, Nam Woo Cho of the Perelman School of Medicine and Maryam Yousefi of the School of Veterinary Medicine, have received International Student Research Fellowships from the Howar

Katherine Unger Baillie , Karen Kreeger

Penn Medicine Researchers Pin Down the Genetics of Going Under

Penn Medicine Researchers Pin Down the Genetics of Going Under

Falling asleep in your bed at night and being “put to sleep” under general anesthesia – as well as waking up in the morning or coming out of anesthesia – aren’t quite the same thing, yet they share some important similarities.  Max Kelz, MD, PhD, assistant professor of Anesthesiol

Jessica Mikulski

Penn Medicine Announces Chester County Hospital and Health System as a New Member of the University of Pennsylvania Health System

Penn Medicine Announces Chester County Hospital and Health System as a New Member of the University of Pennsylvania Health System

The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania and the Board of Directors of The Chester County Hospital and Health System (TCCHHS) today announced TCCHHS as a new member of the University of Pennsylvania Health System. TCCHHS includes a 245-bed hospital complex in West Chester and satellite locations in Exton, West Goshen, New Garden, Jennersville and Kennett Square.

Delivering Drugs With Plants, Penn’s Henry Daniell Aims to Save Lives

Delivering Drugs With Plants, Penn’s Henry Daniell Aims to Save Lives

An admonishment to eat your greens may take on a whole new meaning if Henry Daniell, who recently joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine, has anything to do with it.

Katherine Unger Baillie