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$50 million gift to launch the Lurie Autism Institute
Jeffrey Lurie speaking at the podium.

Jeffrey Lurie, CEO and Chairman of the Philadelphia Eagles, speaks at an event announcing the Lurie Autism Institute, a joint initiative between CHOP and Penn Medicine.

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$50 million gift to launch the Lurie Autism Institute

The transformational gift to Penn Medicine and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia will establish a joint initiative for autism research and treatment.

4 min. read

Penn Nursing’s Jane Muir wins national research award

Penn Nursing’s Jane Muir wins national research award

Muir, an assistant professor in the Department of Family and Community Health at Penn Nursing and emergency medicine at Penn Medicine, and a senior fellow in the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research and in the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, has won the 2025 Nurse Researcher Award from the Emergency Nurses Association. The award honors individuals who have significantly contributed to the field of emergency nursing through research, dissemination of findings, and/or utilization of research to improve patient outcomes.

AI x Science Postdoctoral Fellows collaborate across disciplines
Sibe-by-side portraits of Brynn Sherman, on left, and Kieran Murphy, right.

Penn’s AI x Science Postdoctoral Fellows Program is breaking down traditional scientific boundaries by integrating artificial intelligence across diverse research fields. Less than a year in, the program is already paying dividends in the form of new collaborations and research publications for inaugural fellows like Brynn Sherman (left) of the School of Arts & Sciences and Kieran Murphy (right) of the School of Engineering and Applied Science.

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AI x Science Postdoctoral Fellows collaborate across disciplines

The new fellowship program, offered through the School of Arts & Sciences and the School of Engineering and Applied Science, offers mentorship and peer engagement opportunities.

5 min. read

Improving T-cell responses to vaccines
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Improving T-cell responses to vaccines

Penn Vet and Penn Medicine researchers have modified mRNA vaccines to include the cytokine IL-12 and improve T-cell responses which could improve the body’s ability to fight infections.

3 min. read

Trials aim to make cancer relapse a thing of the past
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Trials aim to make cancer relapse a thing of the past

At Penn Medicine, clinical trials are testing methods that may stop cancer from recurring.

Kirsten Weir for Penn Medicine Magazine

6 min. read

Brothers follow similar paths in music and medicine
David Zhang conducting the Penn Orchestra.

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Brothers follow similar paths in music and medicine

Daniel Zhang co-founded the Penn Medicine Symphony Orchestra in 2016 and served as its founding conductor. When moved into residency training, his brother David stepped up; he is the orchestra’s current music director and conductor.

From Penn Medicine News

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A hard reset on electroconvulsive therapy
Medical brain scans on multiple computer screens.

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A hard reset on electroconvulsive therapy

New research from Penn Medicine finds that ECT sets in motion a brain event that resets its neurons, and has the potential to guide personalized ECT dosing to target specific outcomes in the brain.

From Penn Medicine News

2 min. read

What’s That? The Pyramid at HUP
A red pyramid stands in a courtyard at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

The pyramid in Miller Plaza is often mistaken for a large art installation but instead holds equipment for the Devon MRI Building.

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  • What’s That

    • What’s That? The Pyramid at HUP

    Turning down a hallway at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania reveals a giant red pyramid. It looks like it’s art, but it’s medicine.

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    Delivering a one-two punch to superbugs to fight infections
    Rakesh Krishnan sits at a computer staring at a 3D rendering of a protein.

    Researchers led by César de la Fuente of the Perelman School of Medicine have created new peptides that fight hard-to-treat “superbug” infections by punching holes in bacterial cells and stimulating immune cells to signal for more defenders.

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    Delivering a one-two punch to superbugs to fight infections

    Penn researchers create mirror-image molecules that both kill pathogens outright and rally the immune system—an advance aimed at the growing crisis of antimicrobial resistance.

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