Michael Mitchell Receives BMES Rising Star Award

New Partnership Seeks to Advance MechanoBiology Research

Dan Huh Wins 2018 Lush Science Prize for Organ-on-a-Chip Work

Treating Spinal Pain with Replacement Discs Made of ‘Engineered Living Tissue’ Moves Closer to Reality

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.