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Research + Innovation

Penn Engineers Unveil Generative AI Model that Designs New Antibiotics

What if generative AI could design life-saving antibiotics, not just art and text? In a new Cell Biomaterials paper, Penn researchers introduce AMP-Diffusion, a generative … Read More ›

Posted on September 2, 2025August 27, 2025
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Research + Innovation

AI Uncovers New Antibiotics in Ancient Microbes

They’ve survived for billions of years in boiling acid, deep-sea vents and salt flats. Now, some of Earth’s oldest life forms — microbes called Archaea … Read More ›

Posted on August 12, 2025August 8, 2025
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In the News, Research + Innovation

Sustainable Computing: Can AI Be Energy Efficient?

As AI advances at breakneck speed, experts at Penn are urgently trying to answer these questions. Professors Arthur van Benthem and Benjamin C. Lee have … Read More ›

Posted on August 8, 2025
Four panels show a series of close-ups of red blood cells, compacting over time into clots despite the absence of platelets.
Research + Innovation

Centuries After Discovery, Red Blood Cells Still Hold Surprises

Red blood cells, long thought to be passive bystanders in the formation of blood clots, actually play an active role in helping clots contract, according … Read More ›

Posted on August 6, 2025August 6, 2025
Research + Innovation

AI Vision, Reinvented: The Power of Synthetic Data

In the race to develop AI that understands complex images like financial forecasts, medical diagrams and nutrition labels — essential for AI to operate independently … Read More ›

Posted on July 21, 2025July 18, 2025
Honors + Awards, Research + Innovation

$2.6M NIH Grant Backs Search for Genetic Cure in Deadly Heart Disease

Fourteen million people worldwide suffer from enlarged hearts, or hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), a genetic disease that thickens the heart’s walls, making it harder for the … Read More ›

Posted on July 7, 2025July 6, 2025
Research + Innovation

Penn Engineers Turn Toxic Fungus into Anti-Cancer Compound

Penn-led researchers have turned a deadly fungus into a potent cancer-fighting compound. After isolating a new class of molecules from Aspergillus flavus, a toxic crop … Read More ›

Posted on June 23, 2025June 27, 2025
Research + Innovation

Researchers crack the code of body’s ancient immune defense

How does your body distinguish friendly visitors, like medications and medical devices, from dangerous invaders such as viruses and other infectious agents? The answer lies … Read More ›

Posted on June 18, 2025June 17, 2025
Alumni, Events, Honors + Awards, Students

Designing the Future: Penn Engineering’s 2025 Senior Design Project Competition

Consider the following problems: Every year, millions of people struggle to recover mobility following strokes. Hundreds of millions need eye exams, but live far from … Read More ›

Posted on May 12, 2025May 12, 2025
Honors + Awards, Students

Adventures in Innovation: Penn Engineering Startups Lead Venture Lab Challenge

To form a venture is, quite literally, to go on an adventure. The words have the same Latin root, meaning to head toward what is … Read More ›

Posted on May 6, 2025June 2, 2025

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