A transformative $10 million gift from Cynthia King, the late Jeffery King, and Jason and Julie Borrelli launches the King Center for Lynch Syndrome.
The pharmacy system of the future is here at Penn Medicine: a powerful union of advanced tech with human expertise, improving patients’ health.
The Clyde F. Barker Penn Transplant House offers a comforting and affordable refuge for transplant patients and families—with community and hope.
Penn Medicine researchers will present advances in CAR T cell therapy, cancer interception, prevention, and more at the 2026 AACR Annual Meeting.
Research shows how estrogen levels in the brain and stress already carried into a moment can shape long‑term memory vulnerability in women and men alike.
Courtney Schreiber, MD, MPH, challenged the status quo of care through research and found PEACE for the unseen women undergoing first-trimester miscarriage.
Every Penn medical student’s journey is unique. Match Day is a singular, shared moment when each learns where their destination for residency training.
Public investments in biomedical research have an outsized effect, driving new scientific insights, economic growth, and ultimately treatments and cures.
The successes of CAR T research show the importance of the cycle of science—sparking new ideas and clinical trials that give patients better options.
The Penn Medicine Co-Investment program spurs faculty innovation, creates jobs, and helps scale up ideas into large-scale clinical studies.
A muscle science lab draws on personal experience at the extremes—world-class athleticism and muscular dystrophy—in seeking a safer gene therapy.
Researchers will develop advanced imaging methods for the liver and intestinal lymphatic system with an $8 million grant.
In a historic medical breakthrough, a child with a rare genetic disorder has been successfully treated with a customized CRISPR gene editing therapy.
The ketogenic diet promotes the production of ketone bodies in the liver during fatty acid oxidation, including β-hydroxybutyrate (BHB). New work shows BHB enhances the antitumor activity of CAR T cells, and BHB supplementation may improve CAR T therapy. — March 19, 2026
LSD1 is an enzyme regulator of gene activity overproduced in some cancers. Now, researchers showed in preclinical experiments that LSD1 inhibition works against squamous cell skin cancer by unleashing the skin’s natural anti-tumor immunity mechanisms. — March 12, 2026
A new way that sleep refreshes the brain was discovered in fruit flies. Researchers found haemocytes take on damaged lipids during sleep, but stopping them reduced memory and lifespan, suggesting that sleep-dependent lipid removal is important for brain health. — Feb. 11, 2026
Clinical research professionals’ quiet work with patients and data behind the scenes is vital to moving innovative research forward.
A dual-target CAR T cell therapy approach shows promise for slowing tumor growth in a notoriously aggressive and fast-growing brain cancer.
Carl June, MD, explains how CAR T cell therapy, which has been transformative for blood cancers, holds the potential to help millions more patients.
Bilateral hand transplant at Penn Medicine gives Swiss man new hands 16 years after childhood amputations.
Uterus transplant is still a rare procedure—but for the six moms who have had eight babies to date through Penn’s program, it means the world.
In a proof of concept for a future bridge to transplant, researchers circulated a deceased donor’s blood through a genetically engineered pig liver.
Every minute in the U.S., a woman needs a blood transfusion due to her period. Kathleen O’Neill, MD, is working to develop a novel therapy to protect women.
Could the mRNA technology behind COVID vaccines be used to tamp down the immune system for celiac and other autoimmune diseases?
Biomedical innovations using mRNA could prevent, treat, or cure numerous diseases. Penn Medicine is advancing its Nobel Prize-winning technology worldwide.
The Basser Center for BRCA is running an innovative cancer interception clinical trial that depends on volunteers with deep, personal ties to cancer.
Penn Medicine researchers are at the forefront of new scientific efforts to interrupt the development of cancer at its earliest stages.
A new preclinical study in mice shows that precancerous cells in the pancreas can be eliminated before they have the chance to become tumors.
Robert Vonderheide, MD, DPhil, director of the Abramson Cancer Center, will be the 2026-2027 President-Elect for the American Association for Cancer Research.
Huda Y. Zoghbi, MD, is the inaugural recipient of the Nancy Lurie Marks Prize for Autism Research—the Institute’s highest honor.
Samuel Parry, MD, the Franklin Payne Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Penn has been awarded the Society of Maternal Fetal Medicine (SMFM)’s 2026 Lifetime Achievement Award.
