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The $4.9 million donation will create the Wyss Orthoplastic Global Education and Innovation Hub at Penn, creating opportunities for fellowships, education, and research.

A new 3D-printed customizable hydrogel performed well in preclinical trials with several different types of meniscal tears.

Benjamin “Kyle” Potter, MD, FACS, an internationally renowned physician-leader in combat casualty care, has been named chair of the department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Penn Medicine, effective June 24, 2024.

A pair of proteins, YAP and TAZ, has been identified as conductors of bone development in the womb and could provide insight into genetic diseases such as osteogenesis imperfecta, known commonly as “brittle bone disease.”

Penn Medicine researchers helped lead the development of a tension-activated repair patch to plugs holes in spinal discs.

The new Penn Achilles Tendinopathy Center of Research Translation seeks to build insights that lead to better treatment of Achilles tendon injuries.

One protein, Piezo1, is key to marshalling muscle stem cells’ unique shapes and response to injuries, but it is in low supply in those with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, according to a team at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania came in at number one for the most funds awarded to a United States orthopaedic surgery department by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 2021.