Alzheimer’s Now
Well over a century since it was first identified and following decades of intensive research, Alzheimer’s disease continues to withhold its essential secrets and a cure remains elusive. But recent drug treatments, improvements in diagnostic techniques, and other developments constitute what one Penn Medicine leader calls the “dawn of a new era” in confronting its impacts on patients and caregivers.
Lurie Autism Institute Launched
$50 million for joint Penn Medicine–CHOP Lurie Autism Institute.
CRISPR’s First Custom Cure
Lifesaving breakthrough offers hope for treating “N-of-1” disorders.
Pavilion Becomes Clifton Center
Pavilion renamed the Clifton Center after $120 million donation.
The New World of Organ Transplantation
Penn’s latest advances and future hopes for saving and improving lives through transplant technologies build on a foundation laid down by pioneering surgeons and scientists going back to the 1960s.
Meeting Danger with Courage and Grace
Medical mobilization, March 2020.
Nobel Cause
mRNA researchers Kariko and Weissman win Nobel Prize.
Carl June Wins Breakthrough Prize
Carl June awarded 2024 Breakthrough Prize for CAR T cell therapy.
Battling a Binging Brain
In pilot study, deep brain stimulation curbed binge eating.
Return to Sender
Law and medical schools withdraw from U.S. News rankings.
Hospital of the Future
With Pavilion’s opening, the hospital of the future is here.
New Awakening
In multiple roles, Gina South Gr’12 fights racism in medicine.
The Museum Prescription
Doctors are worn down by paperwork and long hours, forced to focus on computer screens instead of their patients, plagued by feelings of eroding autonomy, traumatized by a pandemic—and trained to endure suffering with stoicism. What ails physicians bodes ill for their patients. Can the visual arts help revive their well-being? A year-long initiative from Penn Medicine and Philadelphia’s flagship art museums aims to test the theory at internet scale.
Engineered Spinal Discs
Penn team implants engineered spinal discs in goats.
Penn Launches Biotech Fund
$50 million fund will jumpstart local biotech-companies.
Phantom Concussions
Here’s what may have afflicted US diplomats in Cuba.
$21 Million for Basser Center for BRCA
$21 million to Basser Center to fight BRCA-related cancers.
Hospital of the Future
$1.5 billion, 17-story pavilion for patient care slated for Penn Tower site.
Pancreas Research Program Established
$12 million to establish Human Pancreas Analysis Program at Penn.
Penn Team Pulls Off Double Hand Transplant
Penn team performs double hand-transplant at HUP
Record-setting Gift from Perelmans to Endow, Rename School of Medicine
Perelmans give $225 million to the School of Medicine.
New Med School Dean
Northwestern’s J. Larry Jameson named new medical dean and EVP.
Turning the Tables on BRCA-related Breast Cancer
Novel drug treatment may shrink breast-cancer tumors.
Who’s Who?
Thomas Eakins’ The Agnew Clinic