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Lorraine Boakye, MD
Lorraine Boakye, MD, an assistant professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, and Ade Osinubi, MD, a resident in Emergency Medicine, have been named to Black Health Connect’s 2023 40 Under 40 list. The list highlights those “driving change within the health care industry” and seeks to recognize honorees for their leadership, innovation, advocacy, community service, and more. Each applicant was asked to list their greatest achievement: Boakye named receiving the Ruth Jackson Orthopaedic Society Courage Award, and Osinubi listed the production of her documentary, “Black Motherhood Through the Lens.”
Two Penn Medicine investigators are among 18 early-career postdoctoral researchers who have received funding awards from the Life Sciences Research Foundation to investigate questions surrounding human health and disease. Faith Karanja, PhD, a Cell and Developmental Biology postdoctoral research fellow, has been awarded for a proposal titled “Exploring the Role of Hopx as a Conserved Regulator of Quiescence in Adult Stem Cells.” Additionally, Jeffrey Rosa, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher in Psychiatry, and who was selected as a Simons Foundation Awardee, has been awarded for a proposal titled, “Identifying the molecular basis of sleep maturation in Drosophila melanogaster."
Katalin Karikó, PhD
Katalin Karikó, PhD, an adjunct professor of Neurosurgery and mRNA research trailblazer, has been named in the Bahl-Dole Coalition’s “Faces of American Innovation” report. The recognition honors people who make breakthroughs in science that lead to commercial products and tangible changes in the world. Karikó will be commended in a ceremony in September.
Penn Medicine is one of the world’s leading academic medical centers, dedicated to the related missions of medical education, biomedical research, excellence in patient care, and community service. The organization consists of the University of Pennsylvania Health System and Penn’s Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine, founded in 1765 as the nation’s first medical school.
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.
The University of Pennsylvania Health System’s patient care facilities stretch from the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania to the New Jersey shore. These include the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, Chester County Hospital, Lancaster General Health, Penn Medicine Princeton Health, and Pennsylvania Hospital—the nation’s first hospital, founded in 1751. Additional facilities and enterprises include Good Shepherd Penn Partners, Penn Medicine at Home, Lancaster Behavioral Health Hospital, and Princeton House Behavioral Health, among others.
Penn Medicine is an $11.1 billion enterprise powered by more than 49,000 talented faculty and staff.