Jan 9, 2019
Penn State's fourth annual Addiction Symposium took place Nov. 28, 2018.
Jan 7, 2019
As part of its LiveB1G series, the Big Ten Network has featured Penn State's Nina Jablonski, Evan Pugh University Professor of Anthropology, and her groundbreaking study of the science of skin color and the flawed notion of "race."
Dec 20, 2018
Steven Hicks, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Penn State College of Medicine, is the lead author on a recent paper showing that a salivary test based on multiple RNA features can accurately identify children with autism spectrum disorder.
Dec 19, 2018
Guy Townsend, PhD, Assistant Professor at Penn State College of Medicine, recently had a paper on the human gut microbiome published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences.
From his clinical and academic vantage points, Dr. Todd Felix didn’t realize how much today’s competitive health care marketplace impacts the mission of Penn State Health.
Dec 12, 2018
Kirsteen Browning, PhD, was recently appointed associate director of the MD/PhD Medical Scientist Training Program at Penn State College of Medicine.
Dec 10, 2018
Jordan Krebs, a student in Penn State College of Medicine's MD/PhD program, is part of the inaugural class in a new training program on eukaryotic gene regulation.
Dec 5, 2018
Combining low doses of a toxic herbicide with sugar-binding proteins called lectins may trigger Parkinsonism -- including symptoms like body tremors and slowing of body motions -- after the toxin travels from the stomach to the brain.
Dec 3, 2018
Dr. Debra Byler, an associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics, vice chair of pediatric education and associate professor in the Department of Neurology, is featured in the December Penn State College of Medicine’s “Exceptional Moments in Teaching” program.
Nov 27, 2018
A research team at Penn State College of Medicine will study universal school based screening of adolescents for major depressive disorder with the help of a three-year, $2 million funding award from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI).