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Penn Immunologist and Collaborators Receive $10 Million NIH Renewal to Study Potential of Cancer-Focused Therapy on Infectious Diseases April 18, 2019 E. John Wherry, PhD, the chair of Pharmacology at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania, will lead the Penn team in the collaboration to study the impact of an immunotherapy called PD-1 blockade on viral immunity in humans.
Certain Strains of Bacteria Associated with Diabetic Wounds That Do Not Heal April 18, 2019 A new study from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania found specific strains of the common pathogen Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) are associated with wounds that do not heal.
Researchers Use Gene Editing with CRISPR to Treat Lethal Lung Diseases Before Birth April 17, 2019 Using CRISPR gene editing, a team from Penn Medicine and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have thwarted a lethal lung disease, in an animal model, in which a harmful mutation causes death within hours after birth.
First-Year Doctors Spend Almost 90 Percent of Their Time Away from Patients April 15, 2019 First-year doctors, or interns, spend 87 percent of their work time away from patients, half of which is spent interacting with electronic health records, according to a new study from researchers at Penn Medicine and Johns Hopkins University.
App Predicts Risk of Developing Hernia Following Abdominal Surgery April 12, 2019 A new app can predict the likelihood that a patient will develop an incisional hernia following abdominal surgery, using big data to potentially help address a problem effects one out of every eight of these surgical patients.

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