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Penn Medicine launches new Colton Center for Autoimmunity
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Penn Medicine launches new Colton Center for Autoimmunity

The Center, made possible through a $10 million gift from alumni Stewart and Judy Colton, unites game-changing research and patient care programs across the University, and connects Penn’s efforts to two other world-renowned institutions.

Penn Today Staff

Clinician peer networks remove race and gender bias
An illustration of six faces with different skin tones, ranging from dark to light. Above the faces are connected lines that look like jacks, to indicate social networks.

Image: Somalee Banerjee

Somalee Banerjee

Clinician peer networks remove race and gender bias

Research from Damon Centola of the Annenberg School for Communication shows that structured health care networks significantly reduce health care inequities and disparities in patient treatment.

Alina Ladyzhensky

The year America’s hair fell out

The year America’s hair fell out

Susan Taylor of the Perelman School of Medicine said Black patients experiencing hair loss are more likely to have central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia, a condition many practitioners are unfamiliar with. “For Black women in particular, they’re told, ‘Stop your relaxers; don’t straighten your hair,’” she said. “And then they say to me, ‘But Dr. Taylor, I always wear my hair natural. I don’t relax my hair.’”

A Black-owned radio station, a physician, and a quest to prevent colon cancer
A pair of hands holding a cancer screening kit vial in one hand and paperwork in another extended to a person standing in a park.

A FIT Kit comes in an envelope and includes instructions, a prepaid return mailing envelope, and a small tube to contain a probe that the user will insert into a stool sample to capture a tiny particle. In the lab, the small sample is tested for signs of blood in the stool, which may not be visible. (Image: Penn Medicine Service in Action)

A Black-owned radio station, a physician, and a quest to prevent colon cancer

A unique community-based campaign by Penn Medicine, WURD, Philadelphia’s Black-owned and -operated talk radio station, and other organizations provide free colon cancer testing kits and follow-up support to Philadelphia residents.

From Penn Medicine News

‘Encrypted’ peptides could be wellspring of natural antibiotics
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‘Encrypted’ peptides could be wellspring of natural antibiotics

An interdisciplinary team of Penn researchers have used a carefully designed algorithm to discover a new suite of antimicrobial peptides, or naturally occurring antibiotics, in the human genome.

From Penn Engineering Today

New study illuminates the biology of common heart disorder
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New study illuminates the biology of common heart disorder

Dilated cardiomyopathy, an often fatal heart disorder, due to titin gene mutations involves both a shortage of good titin and a buildup of mutant, potentially “bad” titin.

Brandon Lausch