A $25 million gift from an anonymous donor to Penn Medicine and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) will establish the Center for Epilepsy and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (ENDD), accelerating collaborative research in genetic therapies for neurodevelopmental disorders. This gift will bolster the efforts of an interdisciplinary group of clinicians and scientists at Penn and CHOP, led by director Benjamin Prosser, PhD, and co-directors Beverly Davidson, PhD, and Ingo Helbig, MD. Dr. Prosser is an associate professor of Physiology at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine, who adjusted the focus of his research career when his own daughter, Lucy, was diagnosed shortly after birth in 2018 with a rare genetic neurodevelopmental disorder.

Congratulations to Dr. Ryan Locke, former PMI T32 trainee, for receiving a Career Development Award (CDA-1) from the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Please see our list of speakers for our Spring 2023 dates.

We look forward to celebrating the winter season with you at our cozy holiday gathering on Dec. 9th! (Festive/"Ugly" Holiday Sweaters encouraged.) Please contact PMI Coordinator, Linda Pang, if you need location information.

The PMI Annual Retreat & Symposium “Formation, Maintenance, & Repair of Skeletal & Cardiac Muscle” will be held on Tuesday, November 1, 2022.

Register here for the Pennsylvania Muscle Institute Annual Retreat and Symposium 2022 “Formation, Maintenance, and Repair of Skeletal and Cardiac Muscle.”

Scientific Legend Prof. Clara Franzini Armstrong remembers her career and discusses the publishing of her EM archive.

Click here for more information about the upcoming PMI symposium.

Congratulations to Yale E. Goldman for his election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Academy members are world leaders in the arts and sciences, business, philanthropy, and public affairs