Penn Path & Lab Medicine

ICYMI: @DrNetto's🎙️Precision Pathology Podcast latest episode featured Ben Stanger, MD discussing his team's groundbreaking study on the use of KRAS-targeted small molecules to eliminate pancreatic cancer precursor lesions in a preclinical mouse model. 🔬: podcasts.apple.com/ba/podcast/int…

Wonderful to see @carlhjune, MD, honored last month in these awards with the Lifetime Achievement Award 🎉 in these new Philadelphia Business Journal annual awards program recognizing outstanding leaders in Greater Philadelphia’s health care and life sciences sectors!

Interested in the latest research? Check out this article in Blood by @SabaGhassemi on 1-day non-activated IL-18-armed #CART. 🔬: ashpublications.org/blood/article-…

A big thank you to Dr. Matija Snuderl for presenting at today's Grand Rounds! It was a great presentation that sparked good discussion on how "DNA Methylation, Hi-C, and Liquid Biopsy Will Redefine Pathology".

This week members of the team and broader community gathered to celebrate the life and career of Dr. Douglas Cines, who passed at the end of last year. It was a wonderful tribute to him and celebration of the impact that he had on so many people.

We always love to spark interest in pathology & laboratory medicine🔬🧪 in young students and it was wonderful to recently host a group from Haverford High School to learn about the exciting things that happen in our department.

New KIR-CAR T cell therapy shows promise in multiple solid cancers ft. Janos Tanyi (@PennOBGYN) & @carlhjune (@PennPathLabMed) @AACR tinyurl.com/ydj8ss6k

Congratulations to Sara Cherry (@PennPathLabMed), Mark Allen (@PennEngineers), @johnljacksonjr (@PennSAS/ @AnnenbergPenn), @MichaelEMann (@PennSAS) & @duncanjwatts (@Wharton/ @AnnenbergPenn/ @PennEngineers) on their election to @americanacad! tinyurl.com/tr3paua2

🎉Congratulations to two teams within our department who received Penn Medicine Quality and Safety Awards this month!🎉 We are so proud of the great work you do every day to enhance patient care and it is wonderful to see you recognized by our institution. Well-deserved honors!

Through research, @PennOBGYN's Courtney Schreiber transformed care for early pregnancy loss, improving miscarriage treatment, reshaping global guidelines & launching PEACE to expand compassionate, accessible care ft. Eline Luning Prack (@PennPathLabMed) tinyurl.com/3nmrmymk

A big thank you to Emily Mason, MD, PhD, for joining us at our Grand Rounds Series last week for our Kevin E. Salhany lecture! It was a great talk on differentiating therapeutic responses in AML.

Congratulations Virginia M.-Y. Lee of @PennPathLabMed, newly inducted #NASmember! #NAS163 #neuropathology #cancerresearch #immunobiology

ft. Minh Than, Rina Sor, Shreya Nair, Nune Markosyan, Chenghua Yang, Courtney Ray-Fofana, Cole Edwards, Connor Hennessey, Austin Good, Liz Quinones, Cynthia Clendenin, Robert Vonderheide @BenStanger01 (@PennCancer) & @emma_furth (@PennPathLabMed) @PennPCRC science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

👏 Another round of applause for the team this Medical Laboratory Professionals Week!! 🥳 🎉 It has been a great week celebrating the achievements of our lab staff who, as it turns out, are also very skilled at door decorating!

A huge congratulations to Sara Cherry, PhD on her election to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences!! 🎉 An amazing and well-deserved honor for an impressive member of the team for her contributions in biological sciences. 🔬: penntoday.upenn.edu/news/five-penn…

Identification of E3 ligase substrates & PROTAC-induced ubiquitylation sites using proximity-based identification of ubiquitin sites (PrIUS) ft. Tanner Tessier, Joseph Dybas & Matthew Weitzman (@PennPathLabMed/ @CHOP_Research) @CommsBio nature.com/articles/s4200…

Great to see two of our department members, @ZhiHuangPhD and @DrMingyaoLi, presenting at the Penn #AI in Medicine Symposium last week. Exciting advancements are happening at Penn!!

🥳Happy Medical Laboratory Professionals Week!! Thank you to all of the outstanding lab professionals in our department who play a vital role in health care. Our team got the celebrations started early last week w/a chance to attend the Phillies ⚾️ Much more to come this week!

New research out in @CellGenomics finds that pre-existing cell states predict resistance to multiple treatments ft. @DylanLSchaff (@pennbioeng) Phoebe White, Aria Fasse (@PennSAS) Christopher Cote @sydshaffer (@PennPathLabMed) & @NancyZh60672287 (@Wharton) clinicalkey.com/#!/content/pla…

Congratulations to Amrom Obstfeld, MD, PhD, on being named the president-elect of the Association for Pathology Informatics! 🎉