• The Discovery Labs signs foundational lease with the Gene Therapy Program as anchor tenant

    Penn’s Gene Therapy Program will use Discovery Labs’ suburban campus for a portion of its expanding research operations focused on the  development of genetic medicines for rare and orphan diseases, as well as acquired and pandemic infectious diseases, such as COVID-19.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News

  • Long-term suppression of hepatitis B in patients who are HIV-coinfected may lower cancer risk

    Research from a Penn Medicine study finds that suppressing detectable hepatitis B infection with the use of antiretroviral therapy cut the risk of developing liver cancer by 58%. These findings suggest that the best care for individuals with HIV and detectable hepatitis B includes sustained hepatitis B suppression with antiretroviral therapy.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News

  • One Book, One SP2: Caste

    The Advisory Committee on Race and Social Justice has announced the selection of “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents” by Isabel Wilkerson, as the One Book, One SP2 choice for 2021-2022. This book poignantly describes how the caste system originated, has been used in India, Nazi Germany, and the United States and still maintained today.

    FULL STORY AT School of Social Policy & Practice

  • African colonial and missionary records, plus South African Apartheid-era sources

    The Penn Libraries have acquired several digitized primary-source collections on British colonial Africa, Apartheid-era South Africa, and British missionary activities in African countries. These collections have been digitized from original sources by British Online Archives.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Libraries

  • Landscape architecture faculty awarded for Galápagos Islands Project

    PEG office of landscape + architecture, the firm of Karen M’Closkey and Keith VanDerSys, associate professor and senior lecturer in the Department of Landscape Architecture, received an honorable mention in the 2021 World Landscape Architecture Awards for their project, Fantasy Island: The Galápagos Archipelago.

    FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design