Penn Engineers Discover New Cellular ‘Elevator’ That’s Controlled by Light

Johnson & Johnson Start-Up Incubator JPOD Hosts Five Engineering Companies

On Nov. 1, Penn launched a new partnership between the University and Johnson & Johnson Innovation, the health care giant’s collaborative arm. Known as JPOD @ Philadelphia and based in the Pennovation Center, JPOD is a start-up incubator designed to accelerate innovative health care technologies. Of JPOD’s first seven resident businesses, five are operated by Penn Engineering faculty, students or […]

Vivek Shenoy and the Power of Penn

Earlier this month in Boston, Penn President Amy Gutmann hosted a panel discussion as part of the “Power of Penn” campaign. This event was one of several being held in major cities, aiming to raise $4.1 billion for the University’s priorities, underpinned by the commitment to innovation, inclusion, and impact.

Michael Mitchell Receives NIH Director’s New Innovator Award

“High-Risk, High-Reward” Research Will Apply Machine Learning to Engineer Delivery Technologies for Gene Editing and Immunotherapy

Danielle Bassett on the Complexity of Biology

Last week, Dublin’s Trinity College hosted a conference called “Schrödinger at 75 — The Future of Biology,” in honor of the physicist’s series of influential public lectures that jump-started a revolution in molecular biology. On the 75th anniversary of those lectures, Trinity invited researchers from the world over to discuss the newest questions that have arisen in […]

Penn Researchers Discover that Class of Neurological Disorders Share Common 3D Genome Folding Pattern

In a study led by Jennifer Phillips-Cremins, Assistant Professor in Bioengineering, researchers have found another common thread linking nearly all of the TNR expansion diseases: the complicated 3D patterns that the DNA is folded into in order to fit in the nucleus of the cell.

A Conversation with Danielle Bassett: IEEE TechEthics Interview

Danielle Bassett, Eduardo D. Glandt Faculty Fellow and Associate Professor in the Department of Bioengineering, recently sat down with IEEE TechEthics to talk about the state of her field and the ethical considerations facing it.

Using Statistics to Uncover the Truth About Individual Cells

Researchers at Penn have developed a better method for interpreting data from single-cell RNA sequencing technologies. This research is built on a collaboration between The Wharton School, Mingyao Li at the Perelman School of Medicine, and Arjun Raj’s group at the School of Engineering and Applied Science.

Penn and Drexel Research Team Use Noninvasive Brain Stimulation to Study Language

Danielle Bassett, Eduardo D. Glandt Faculty Fellow, recently collaborated on a study that explores how the brain completes open-ended and close-ended language tasks. She worked with colleagues at Drexel University, including former lab member John Medaglia, and at Penn, including Roy Hamilton, associate professor and director of Perelman School of Medicine’s Laboratory for Cognition and […]

Danielle Bassett Wins Erdős-Rényi Prize

Danielle S. Bassett, PhD, Eduardo D. Glandt Faculty Fellow and Associate Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania, is the recipient of the 2018 Erdős-Rényi Prize. The award, given by the Network Science Society, or NetSci, recognizes the achievements of a young researcher working in the field of network science.