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Cloud-Based Brain Activity Mapping System Receives Fierce Innovation Award
December 11, 2018
A study using cloud-computing to track and display brain activity in real-time for the potential treatment of depression has netted Penn Medicine, Princeton University, Yale University and Intel Corporation with a Fierce Innovation Award.
Neurology and Neurosurgery
Genetic Avatars: Penn Team Uses Gene Editing to Personalize Clinical Care for Family with Cardiomyopathy
December 11, 2018
New stem-cell-based test aims to decrease uncertainty of gene variants with unclear health significance
Basic Science
Penn Establishes Master of Science Genetic Counseling Program
December 11, 2018
The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Arcadia University are launching a Master of Science in Genetic Counseling program at Penn in 2019.
Medical Education
Penn Medicine and Wharton Executive Education Launch Health Care Innovation Program
December 07, 2018
Through a partnership with Penn Medicine and the Aresty Institute of Executive Education at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, leaders in health care and academic medicine will acquire a powerful, strategic approach to innovation to help speed their organizations forward in a rapidly evolving field.
Medical Education
New Imaging Tools that Trace Key Breast Cancer Enzymes May Help Guide Therapies
December 06, 2018
A set of emerging diagnostic tools may help identify breast cancer patients who are most likely to benefit from therapies that target important enzymes fueling a range of subtypes, including BCRA-mutated and triple negative cancers.
Cancer
Penn Medicine Surgeons Perform World’s First Robotic Bilateral Breast Reconstruction
December 06, 2018
A team of surgeons from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania are the first in the world to use a surgical robot to assist with a bilateral free flap breast reconstruction – a procedure in which tissue is taken from the lower abdomen – similar to a “tummy tuck” – and used to rebuild the breast.
Surgery
Awards Accolades: November 2018
December 05, 2018
Learn how Penn clinicians and researchers are being honored by their peers.
Public Health
Penn’s Basser Center for BRCA Chooses Memorial Sloan Kettering, Cornell University Researcher Maria Jasin for 2018 Basser Global Prize
December 04, 2018
The Basser Center for BRCA at Penn Medicine’s Abramson Cancer Center, the world’s first comprehensive center aimed at advancing research, treatment, and prevention of BRCA-related cancers, has announced Maria Jasin, PhD, as the recipient of the sixth annual Basser Global Prize.
Global Trial Shows CAR T Therapy Can Lead to Durable Remissions in Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
November 30, 2018
In an update to a global clinical trial stretching from Philadelphia to four continents, the chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy Kymriah® (tisagenlecleucel, formerly CTL019) led to long-lasting remissions in patients with relapsed/refractory (r/r) diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL).
Cancer
FDA Approves New Targeted Drug for Leukemia Tested at University of Pennsylvania
November 28, 2018
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first ever inhibitor drug specifically approved for treating patients with relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukemia (AML) with a mutation in the Fms-like tyrosine kinase 3 (FLT3) gene.
Cancer
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