PHILADELPHIA — Yvonne Paterson, PhD, and Nicola Mason, PhD, have been named this year’s recipients of the University of Pennsylvania One Health Award.
Paterson, professor of microbiology in Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine and associate dean for research and professor of Nursing in the School of Nursing, and Mason, assistant professor of pathobiology and clinical studies in Penn’s School of Veterinary Medicine, are collaborating on a project to further develop cancer immunotherapies that are already showing promise in both canine and human patients.
The One Health Award, a new Award for Excellence in promoting One Health Initiatives and Inter-professional Education, was established this year by the deans of the four health schools at Penn — Medicine, Nursing, Veterinary Medicine and the School of Dental Medicine. The award recognizes exemplary contributions toward expanding interdisciplinary education and improving health care and will be presented at the international “Feeding Cities” conference at Penn in March.
For more information on the award, see the Penn University Communications release.
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The Perelman School of Medicine is consistently among the nation's top recipients of funding from the National Institutes of Health, with $550 million awarded in the 2022 fiscal year. Home to a proud history of “firsts” in medicine, Penn Medicine teams have pioneered discoveries and innovations that have shaped modern medicine, including recent breakthroughs such as CAR T cell therapy for cancer and the mRNA technology used in COVID-19 vaccines.
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