News Releases

Mitchell A. Lazar, M.D., Ph.D., is the 2025 recipient of the George M. Kober Medal from the Association of American Physicians (AAP). Lazar will receive the honor in Chicago at the AAP’s annual meeting.

Three Penn Medicine hospitals were honored among their peers with 2024 Achievement Awards from The Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania (HAP).

A $5 million grant seeks to develop new, more efficient approaches to learn from the care delivered to patients across the University of Pennsylvania health system and to train local scientists in the principles of “Learning Health System science.”

The physician-scientists are among 100 active members across 50 institutions elected in 2024.

Penn Medicine’s E. John Wherry, PhD, and CHOP’s John M. Maris, MD, have been named Fellows of the AACR Academy and will be recognized at the 2024 AACR Annual Meeting.

The Basser Center for BRCA has announced Kenneth Offit, MD, MPH, as the recipient of the 2023 Basser Global Prize for his work to discover and characterize inherited genetic markers of cancer risk.

The University of Pennsylvania messenger RNA pioneers whose years of scientific partnership unlocked understanding of how to modify mRNA to make it an effective therapeutic have been named winners of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.