Penn Ctr Research on Coronavirus & Other Emerging

In the past 50 years, childhood vaccines have saved an estimated 154 million lives* 💉🌏 We cannot afford to backtrack on this public health success 📉 For @Gavi’s pledging summit, Richard Horton reiterates the need to step up global immunisation efforts – to protect children, their families & generations to come 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 #VaccinesSaveLives bit.ly/4lmW9Km 1/3

ASM lifetime achievement award winner Susan Weiss getting interviewed by her colleague Brenda Hogue ASM Microbe2025 @ASMicrobiology

Sixteen years after losing his hands in childhood from amputation, a Swiss man became the fifth person to receive a bilateral hand transplant at @PennMedicine. A multi-disciplinary team of more than 20 experts collaborated for the life-changing procedure. spr.ly/60094RZLN

Congratulations to @HollyLynchez (@PennMEHP/ @PennLaw), Victoria Mui (@PennOBGYN), @MadihaRaeesMD (@PennAnesthesia/ @ChildrensPhila) & Michelle Sun (@ScheieEye) on being awarded 2025 @PennGlobal research & engagement grants! tinyurl.com/4ab2khdy

Check out new art at The SPACE gallery, featuring photographs of layered weathering graffiti. All proceeds to the artist are donated to Philabundance, to address food insecurity in our area. thespacephiladelphia.com/online-store-f…

Congrats to Lydia Mendoza and the team on their latest publication: detailed characterization of immune responses against recent influenza strains at the Hospital at the University of Pennsylvania. PMID: 40452165.

Attend tomorrow's Virology Seminar to learn more about determinants of MERS-CoV spillover and RNA-binding proteins in adenovirus infection!

Congratulations to @weisssr (@PennMicro), Dennis Discher, Cherie Kagan (@PennEngineers), Michael Jones-Correa & Sophia Rosenfeld (@PennSAS) on their election to @americanacad! tinyurl.com/rtdecs92

Congrats to Marie Seleme, Aradhana Kasimsetty and the team on their report of effective methods for increasing expression from AAV vectors by blocking SUMOylation. Effective boosting by treatment with an inhibitor presently under investigation in humans! (PMID: 40263936)

The misinformation from RFK Jr. around measles is shocking. Check out Rachel Maddow’s report. Vaccination beats magical thinking. youtube.com/watch?v=hJQUQJ…

Congrats to Carter Merenstein on completion of his PhD thesis! A blizzard of impressive first author papers on the human microbiome in health and disease. Well done!! Examples: PMID: 37217829, PMID: 36195943, PMID: 34399607

The Microbiology Department at Penn is hiring Professors of all ranks, and I'm co-chairing the search committee with @SunnyShinLab/@BettsLab. Please RT and contact us if you have questions about the position and our department. apply.interfolio.com/148381 apply.interfolio.com/148380

Congrats to Nikki Tanneti, Susan Weiss and the team for their exciting study of SARS-CoV-2 variants in authentic primary human nasal epithelial cells. Turns out Delta is most cytopathic while Omicron is fastest replicating. PMID: 38477472

Excited to announce that the Microbiocode web site is now live! The site provides numerous software tools for scientific computation in Microbiome and Microbial Genomics research. Check it out! med.upenn.edu/microbiocode/

Outstanding Symposium on Zoonotic Disease Research coming up at the Penn Vet School. Check it out!

Be safe this Holiday Season! Check out the latest edition of GQ Magazine, which features advice from Dr. Ron Collman, director of the Penn Center for AIDS Research, on how best to wear condoms! gq.com/story/best-con…

Huge congrats to Christoph Thaiss for winning the Brown New Investigator Award. Very much deserved!!

Common sense views on the origins of SARS-CoV-2, explained by a panel of experts. Natural spill-over likely, lab leak highly unlikely. Check out This Week in Virology (TWIV)! youtube.com/watch?v=Z-1B1B…

We are one week away! Please join us for the Symposium on Emerging Viruses June 14 hosted by the Penn Center for Research on Coronaviruses and Other Emerging Pathogens. Check it out!

Excited about the upcoming Symposium on Emerging Viruses June 14 hosted by the Penn Center for Research on Coronaviruses and Other Emerging Pathogens. Check it out!