Dr. Michael Freeman, a pediatric nephrologist and ethicist with Penn State Children’s Hospital, is featured for October in Penn State College of Medicine’s “Exceptional Moments in Teaching” program.
Dr. John Boehmer, professor of medicine and surgery, and former president of the Penn State College of Medicine Faculty Organization, has been selected as the College of Medicine's new associate dean for faculty affairs. He will replace Dr. Carol Weisman when she steps down as associate dean in July 2019.
Penn State College of Medicine’s Continuing Education program recently achieved Accreditation with Commendation from the Accreditation Council on Continuing Medical Education.
During a Sept. 30 ceremony held at the residence of Penn State President Eric Barron, Penn State trustee Keith E. Masser and his wife, Helen E. Masser, signed documents to create a professorship in the Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences and a scholarship in the Penn State College of Medicine.
A new National Institutes of Health (NIH) High-Risk, High-Reward grant will allow Penn State’s Steven Schiff and team to explore a radically changed approach to predicting, preventing and treating infectious disease at the individual level at point-of-care. This venture provides the researchers an opportunity to explore a new way of addressing critical unmet needs, especially in the developing world.
Researchers say that a computer-guided algorithm they created may help scientists find just the right spot to split a protein and then reassemble it to functionality. They add this could be another step — perhaps even a dance step — toward using chemical and light signals to create new medical treatments — for instance CAR T-cell therapy — and biosensors.
Penn State has named the John E. Morgan Foundation its inaugural Foundation Partner of the Year. The award recognizes the Morgan Foundation’s long history of philanthropy toward a wide range of programs across the University.
Those interested in learning about or participating in microbiome research at Penn State are invited to attend a networking event sponsored by the University's Microbiome Research Center.
A new grant will help Penn State researchers develop an innovative foam that helps seal wounds quickly — whether on the battlefield, in rural areas, or in other isolated locations far from hospitals.
The Penn State College of Medicine will host a regional workshop with the American Cancer Society from 9 to 10:30 a.m. on Nov. 14 to introduce participants to the society’s research portfolio and explore the types of competitive grants it awards to cancer researchers.
Dr. Carl June, Richard W. Vague Professor in Immunotherapy in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, will present “Car T-cells: Building Smarter Cars” at the 2018 Fall Dean’s Lecture at Penn State College of Medicine.
Penn State’s Social Science Research Institute, in collaboration with the Clinical and Translational Science Institute, has awarded over $200,000 in funding to support 10 new interdisciplinary teams of Penn State researchers whose work is aimed at combating the opioid epidemic.
Blood pumps are increasingly a bridge-to-transplant for patients with end-stage heart disease or heart failure, but blood clots and strokes can put patients in peril before they receive a donor heart. Now a four-year, $3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health may solve this problem and perhaps open the pumps' use for less-sick patients who could benefit from them.
Dr. Pamela Brian, a radiologist at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, is the August winner of Penn State College of Medicine’s “Exceptional Moment in Teaching” program.
Penn State Health and Penn State College of Medicine hosted 25 organizations for a recent forum titled “Protecting Providers from Patient Bias.”
