Honors & Awards
Grant Awarded to Advance Gastroesophageal Cancer Treatment
The DeGregorio Family Foundation, with additional support from the Torrey Coast Foundation Gastro Esophageal Investigator Network Initiative, awarded Saar Gill, MD, PhD, an associate professor of Hematology-Oncology, a $450,000 grant to continue work on his “Trojan horse” immunotherapy targeting...
Read Moreabout Grant Awarded to Advance Gastroesophageal Cancer TreatmentSloan Research Fellows
Jason Altschuler (counter-clockwise from top left) and Anderson Ye Zhang of the Wharton School, Liang Wu of the School of Arts & Sciences, and César de la Fuente of the Perelman School of Medicine and School of Engineering and Applied...
Read Moreabout Sloan Research FellowsFive of the Most Important Medical Breakthroughs of 2024
Penn Medicine researchers contributed to two studies that made Forbes contributor Juergen Eckhardt’s list of the five most important medical breakthroughs of 2024: CAR T cell therapy for glioblastoma—for which Carl June, MD, the Richard W. Vague Professor in...
Read Moreabout Five of the Most Important Medical Breakthroughs of 2024Douglas B. Cines Honored with Henry M. Stratton Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Hematology
Congratulations to Douglas Cines, MD, on receiving the 2024 Henry M. Stratton Medal for basic science from the American Society of Hematology (ASH). honoring Cines' 40+ years of discoveries that have led to significant improvements in the treatment of #thrombocytopenic disorders.
Read Moreabout Douglas B. Cines Honored with Henry M. Stratton Medal for Outstanding Contributions to HematologyCarl June Awarded the Abarca Prize for CAR T Cell Therapy Research
CAR T cell therapy pioneer Carl June, MD, the Richard W. Vague Professor in Immunotherapy, was presented with the IV Edition of the Abarca Prize by the HM Hospitals Research Foundation, during a gala in Madrid, Spain on Tuesday....
Read Moreabout Carl June Awarded the Abarca Prize for CAR T Cell Therapy ResearchGrant Awarded for Maximizing CAR T in Ovarian Cancer Treatment
Daniel J. Powell Jr., MD, of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, and Michael Farwell, MD, of Radiology, received UG3/UH3 grant funding of more than $6 million to develop a platform that would allow controlled delivery of immunomodulatory agents to...
Read Moreabout Grant Awarded for Maximizing CAR T in Ovarian Cancer TreatmentPenn Medicine Pair Honored by American Society for Microbiology
Two Penn Medicine researchers received awards from the American Society for Microbiology for 2025. Susan Weiss, PhD, of Microbiology, received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society for Microbiology for dedicating more than 40 years of research to...
Read Moreabout Penn Medicine Pair Honored by American Society for MicrobiologyOf Medicine and Miracles
The award-winning documentary, "Of Medicine and Miracles," features Penn Medicine’s CAR T-cell therapy pioneers Carl June, MD, Bruce Levine, PhD, and David Porter, MD. It chronicles the team's monumental quest to cure cancer through the lens of...
Read Moreabout Of Medicine and MiraclesCitizen of the Year Awards: Dr. David C. Fajgenbaum
This Penn Medicine physician turned his five near-death experiences into a mission to save the lives of people suffering from humanity’s 12,000 known diseases. Is it any wonder, then, that David Fajgenbaum, MD, MBA, is our Citizen of the Year?
Read Moreabout Citizen of the Year Awards: Dr. David C. FajgenbaumFellow of the American Association for Cancer Research 2024
Ten scholars, including E. John Wherry, PhD, have been named to the 2021 class of American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows. For unparalleled research discoveries that have defined the genetic and epigenetic control mechanisms governing T-cell exhaustion,...
Read Moreabout Fellow of the American Association for Cancer Research 2024Heritage Lecture Awardee
The Heritage lecture is given annually by an outstanding scientist who trained in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology (as a student or postdoc) and who has moved on to a highly successful career elsewhere. The intention of this lectureship...
Read Moreabout Heritage Lecture AwardeeBorrelli Family Lynch Syndrome Pilot Awardee 2024
Alex Huang, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, has been awarded a pilot grant for his project titled: “Neoantigen-specific memory T-cell responses in Lynch syndrome carriers.”
Read Moreabout Borrelli Family Lynch Syndrome Pilot Awardee 2024Lifetime Achievement Award
Alain Rook, MD, Professor of Dermatology and the former Director of the Photopheresis Program, received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for Cutaneous Lymphomas. Dr. Rook founded Penn’s photopheresis program 37 years ago and served as the director...
Read Moreabout Lifetime Achievement AwardSaar Gill Appointed PICI Co-Director
The Parker Institute for Cancer Immunology (PICI) has named Saar Gill, MBBS, PhD, FRACP, one of three co-directors. His appointment reflects PICI's commitment to leveraging leaders who excel in translating scientific discoveries into impactful patient treatments. Dr. Gill, who...
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