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• The Power of Biomarkers and Efficacy of Vaccine Responses Among Patients Treated with Newly Approved Multiple Sclerosis Drug

  April 26, 2018

  In March 2017, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved ocrelizumab as the first treatment for both relapsing (RMS) and progressive forms of multiple sclerosis (MS), a genetic disease that afflicts approximately 400,000 Americans with an estimated 10,000 new cases every year.

• Penn Researchers Elected American Statistical Association Fellows

  April 26, 2018

  Two biostatisticians from the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics and professors of Biostatistics in Biostatistics and Epidemiology Mingyao Li, PhD, and Sharon Xie, PhD, have been elected fellows of the American Statistical Association, the largest professional organization for statisticians in the United States.
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  Penn Bioinformatics Researcher Receives Big-Data Grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

  April 25, 2018

  Casey Greene, PhD, an assistant professor of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, has been awarded funding from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, an advised fund of Silicon Valley Community Foundation. The Initiative was created by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, MD, a pediatrician.

• Penn Medicine Cardiologist Received Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Heart Association

  April 25, 2018

  Susan Brozena, MD, FACC, FAHA, an emeritus associate professor of Cardiovascular Medicine in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, received the 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Heart Association. 
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  How Do You Get Teens to Stop Cellphone Use While Driving? Survey Says, Show Them The Money

  April 24, 2018

  Teens who admit to texting while driving may be convinced to reduce risky cellphone use behind the wheel when presented with financial incentives such as auto-insurance apps that monitor driving behavior, according to a new survey conducted by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). 
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  Five Ways to Help Cancer Patients Avoid the Emergency Room

  April 24, 2018

  Unnecessary emergency department visits and hospitalizations are debilitating for patients with cancer and far too common – and costly – for the United States health care system. To reverse the trend, researchers at the Abramson Cancer Center, the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, and the Wharton School, all at the University of Pennsylvania, have identified the five best practices to reduce unnecessary emergency department (ED) visits and hospitalizations, which they call “unplanned acute care.” 

• Penn Medicine’s Carl June, MD, Named One of Time Magazine’s Most Influential People in the World

  April 20, 2018

  TIME named University of Pennsylvania cancer and HIV gene therapy pioneer Carl June, MD, to the 2018 TIME 100, its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.

• “Fight, Flight, or Freeze:” Animal Study Connects Fear Behavior, Rhythmic Breathing, Smell Centers of Brain

  April 20, 2018

  “Take a deep breath” is the mantra of every anxiety-reducing advice list ever written. And for good reason. There’s increasing physiological evidence connecting breathing patterns with the brain regions that control mood and emotion.

• Putting Proteins in Their Proper Place: Penn Study Identifies System that Guides Misplaced Disease Proteins Back to the Nucleus

  April 19, 2018

  A host of special molecules called nuclear RNA-binding proteins (RBPs), when misplaced outside the nucleus, form the harmful clumps seen in several brain disorders, including frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). 

• Penn Researchers Receive Two of Ten National Clinical Research Achievement Awards

  April 19, 2018

  Two researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania are among the recipients of the 2018 Clinical Research Achievement Award from the Clinical Research Forum, which recognizes the ten most outstanding clinical research accomplishments in the United States during the preceding twelve months.