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National Academy of Medicine Issues Code of Conduct to Guide Health Care’s AI Revolution

Kevin Johnson, David L. Cohen University Professor, contributed to a new report with guidelines on incorporating AI in health care.

Posted on November 12, 2025November 12, 2025
Alumni, In the News

Ralph Teetor: The Blind Penn Engineer Who Changed the Way We Drive

A young girl watches her father tinker with two piston rings in his neatly organized workshop, where everything has its place. He uses his fingers … Read More ›

Posted on November 7, 2025November 12, 2025
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Honors + Awards, Research + Innovation

Surbhi Goel Named 2025 Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Early Career Fellow

Surbhi Goel, Magerman Term Assistant Professor in Computer and Information Science (CIS) at Penn Engineering, has been named a 2025 Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Early Career … Read More ›

Posted on November 5, 2025November 5, 2025
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In the News, Research + Innovation

University of Pennsylvania and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Sign a Cooperative AI Advising Agreement

The University of Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro’s Office of Administration have signed a cooperative agreement for artificial intelligence advising services. The agreement leverages … Read More ›

Posted on October 31, 2025October 31, 2025
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Honors + Awards, Students

Penn BMES Wins National Commendable Achievement Award

The University of Pennsylvania’s chapter of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) has been recognized nationally with the Commendable Achievement Award, the second-highest honor given to … Read More ›

Posted on October 30, 2025
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Research + Innovation

From Soft to Solid: How a Coral Stiffens Its Skeleton on Demand

Touch the branches of Leptogorgia chilensis, a soft coral found along the Pacific coast from California to Chile, and its flexible arms stiffen, like Marvel’s … Read More ›

Posted on October 29, 2025November 12, 2025
Penn engineers and collaborators have developed a transparent, micro-engineered device that houses a living, vascularized model of human lung cancer—a “tumor on a chip”—and show that the diabetes drug vildagliptin helps more CAR T cells break through the tumor’s defenses and attack it effectively. (Image: Courtesy of Dan Huh)
Research + Innovation

Tumor-on-a-Chip Offers Insight into Cancer-Fighting Cells in Immunotherapy

For a little over two decades, chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy has emerged as a powerful new way to treat cancer. By extracting … Read More ›

Posted on October 27, 2025
A trio of researchers pose in a lab with 3D printed plastic models of nanoparticles.
Research + Innovation

Nanoparticle Blueprints Reveal Path to Smarter Medicines

Lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) are the delivery vehicles of modern medicine, carrying cancer drugs, gene therapies and vaccines into cells. Until recently, many scientists assumed that … Read More ›

Posted on October 23, 2025October 20, 2025
Professor Chris Callison Burch is sitting at a desk with a computer that has students surrounding him.
Research + Innovation

Four Advances Redefining AI Innovation — Insights from Professor Chris Callison-Burch

Artificial Intelligence is no longer just advancing. It’s accelerating in ways that will redefine how humans and machines work together. For Professor Chris Callison-Burch, a leading … Read More ›

Posted on October 22, 2025
In the News

Clark Foundation Invests $11 Million in the Next Generation of Penn Engineers

For Amehja Williams (EE’26), who dreams of going to Mars, engineering is about more than technical prowess. Last year, as a NASA-Partner Eclipse Ambassador, she … Read More ›

Posted on October 21, 2025October 22, 2025

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