News Releases

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.

Carl June, MD, has been named a winner of the 2024 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for pioneering the development of CAR T cell therapy, a revolutionary approach to cancer treatment that programs patients’ own immune cells to fight their cancer.

Two esteemed leaders from the Abramson Cancer Center, Angela DeMichele, MD, and Carmen Guerra, MD, will be honored with 2023 Special Awards at the American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting.

Virginia M.Y. Lee, PhD, and Roy H. Hamilton, MD, MS, both from the Perelman School of Medicine, were recognized for their achievements by the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) at the 2023 Annual Meeting in Boston.