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Penn Medicine BioBank featured in Philadelphia Inquirer- Health

Link: Philadelphia Inquirer - Health (Penn Medicine BioBank) More than 260,000 people have signed up to participate in the project, called Penn Medicine BioBank,agreeing to have their samples stored in secure, negative-80 degree freezers. By cross-referencing participants’ DNA with their electronic health records,researchers have discovered genetic variants related to heart disease, hearing loss, diabetes, glaucoma, and muscular dystrophy, among other conditions.

Penn Medicine Clinical Research Nurses presented 9 sessions at Intl. Assoc. Clinical Research Nurses

IACRN held its annual conference in Philadelphia in 2023. 20 Clinical Research Nurses from Penn Medicine attended, and presented 9 sessions at the conference demonstrating their robust expertise in the field, represented Penn Medicine and networked with CRNs from around the world.

Susan Domchek, MD appears on NBC's "Today Show" to discuss vaccine in breast cancer

Susan Domchek, MD discusses the INO 5401 Vaccination in BRCA1/2 Mutation Carriers Study, which is testing an experimental vaccine to potentially prevent cancer for people with BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations.

UPenn Opens New Multi-Disciplinary Research Labs

The Future of Medicine Rises in University City: University of Pennsylvania Opens New Multi-Disciplinary Research Labs in One uCity Square

Woman diagnosed with breast cancer at 34 credits clinical trial with saving her life-ABC News

Tune into Good Morning America on Monday, Oct. 2 to hear Kate and her doctors, including oncologist Hayley Knollman and breast surgeon Lola Fayanju, share her incredible story.

Penn Medicine Study Finds Wrist Temperature Associated With Future Risk of Disease

Findings indicate the potential for monitoring disease risk through inexpensive, unintrusive continuous measures of skin temperature

Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, Penn’s Historic mRNA Vaccine Research Team, Win 2023 Nobel Prize in Medicine

Highest Honor Bestowed for Foundational Discoveries that Gave the World a Vaccine to Fight COVID-19 Pandemic

Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health Research Institute

We strive to increase patient care options through new drugs and devices not yet available to the general public. We support investigators as they work to improve and advance medical care, while ensuring that all our research remains safe for patients and other study participants.