News Releases

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.

A gift of over $1 million to the Perelman School of Medicine from Harris Philanthropies will bolster efforts to recruit applicants from diverse backgrounds to Penn’s pathway and fellowship programs in both clinical medicine and biomedical research.

For her work pinpointing the underlying, genetic causes of a pair of devastating neurological diseases, the Institute for Regenerative Medicine awarded Huda Zoghbi, MD, the second Elaine Redding Brinster Prize in Science or Medicine.

Carl June, MD, has been named a 2022 Keio Medical Science Prize Laureate, recognized for his pioneering role in the development of CAR T cell therapy for cancer.

The Basser Center for BRCA has announced that Fergus J. Couch, PhD, chair of the division of Experimental Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Mayo Clinic, is the recipient of the 10th annual Basser Global Prize.