Bioengineering doctoral graduate Karen Xu has been honored with a Scholar Award from the P.E.O. Sisterhood, recognizing her high level of academic achievement and potential for having a positive impact on society. #PennBioengineering Penn Engineering

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Hey Day is one of our favorite Penn traditions. It's always a joy to watch our Juniors celebrate their transformation into Seniors! Congrats to the #Classof2025 👒 ❤️

Penn's Stephenson Foundation Bio-MakerSpace Penn Engineering

The Department of #PennBioengineering and Robert Mauck are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Elisabeth A. Lemmon.
'Biologic Delivery to Preserve Joint Health and Promote Tissue Repair'
May 28, 2024
10:00 AM
Mauck Lab @PennVet Penn Medicine
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Yesterday, Penn Engineering joined IEEE to honor Grace Hopper with the unveiling of the IEEE Milestone Plaque recognizing the invention of the A-0 Compiler. Click the link to learn more: events.seas.upenn.edu/event/ieee-gra…

Next step is to identify the specific barriers and develop strategies to overcome them. NEJM Evidence

Carl June and I reviewed the current evidence on the potential risk of T-cell lymphoma after #CART immunotherapy. Now online Blood Cancer Discovery !!! Penn Medicine Penn Medicine - Abramson Cancer Center rb.gy/im1r7i

According to Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), 28% of the global burden of disease is due to infections and 14% to bacterial infections. New #antibiotics are urgently needed to combat these infections! amr.solutions/2024/04/29/ram…

Joey Wu, a third-year VIPERatPenn student in #PennBioengineering and PENN EES Department, has been named a 2024 udallfoundation Scholar. Wu is the founder of Waterroots, a nonprofit that uses climate storytelling to combat water insecurity.

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Penn's 2021 iGEM Headquarters team's award-winning optogenetic device, the optoPlateReader (oPR), is now in Communications Biology. oPR commands cells with light, offering real-time insights crucial for pharmaceuticals and bio-fuels. Learn more: bit.ly/3UexFXY

Congratulations to two outstanding #PennBioengineering PhD students! Penn Engineering

Congrats to Hannah Bonelli for her poster award at the Children's Hospital Research Day and to Ryan Friedman for the Most Promising Pediatric Medical Technology award! Great job, so prou of you! #proudPI CHOP Research Penn Bioengineering

Honored to contribute to the ideating complex models in cancer health equity workshops - thrilled to receive this note from National Cancer Institute - Grateful for the opportunity to make a difference - found great collaborators to forge ahead in exciting directions! #HealthEquity #CancerResearch

Excited to share our preprint on 'mechano-metabolism,' predicting how cancer cells adapt ATP dynamics in 3D environments. Cells consume more ATP and effectively restore ATP reserves in stiffer matrices through AMPK activation. CEMB, Penn Engineering
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Honored to receive the Controlled Release Society Young Investigator Award, my home society! Even better to win it with friend Roy van der Meel. Huge thanks to Bob Langer for the nomination + Mike Mitchell Penn Bioengineering for crushing it since 2018!

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Huge congrats to Dr. Ricardo Whitaker on a successful PhD thesis defense with Kara L Spiller! Pumped to have Ricardo join Mike Mitchell as a Postdoc this summer co-advised with Noor Momin, Ph.D. on a new PennCVI Dream Team grant on cardiovascular targeting of lipid nanoparticles!

Penn is now a mecca for AI research in biology. We discuss this and much more in this wonderful podcast Surbhi Goel, Chris Callison-Burch, Susan Davidson Penn Engineering @Penn Penn Bioengineering Penn Medicine #AIMonthatPenn bit.ly/4aPNv2n