Sep 25, 2018
A new grant will help Penn State researchers develop an innovative foam that helps seal wounds quickly -- on the battlefield, rural areas, or other isolated locations far from hospitals.
From aging to cancer—with quite a bit in between—Katherine Aird, assistant professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology at Penn State College of Medicine, and her team have a whole world of research opportunities in front of them. This is not just because they have a lot yet to discover, as Aird insists they do, but because the progress they have made has incredibly broad potential impact.
Sep 20, 2018
In spring 2018, the Harrell Health Sciences Library debuted two new student tools for medical students, highlighting library resources for the medical humanities and health systems sciences.
Sep 14, 2018
Pure, the new research networking tool for Penn State, is now publicly accessible.
Sep 11, 2018
Dr. A. Craig Hillemeier, dean of Penn State College of Medicine, chief executive officer for Penn State Health and Penn State’s senior vice president for health affairs, presented an update to the Medical Center’s Board of Directors, faculty, staff, students and others.
It’s not every day you meet someone who changed the way the world understood the development of HIV and hepatitis C or any other infectious disease. But that is precisely the accomplishment of Dr. Elaine Eyster.
Sep 10, 2018
A team of researchers has developed a new framework that can combine three existing methods of finding mutations -- or structural variants -- in the DNA of cancer cells into a single, more complete picture.
Sep 7, 2018
Dr. Pamela Brian, a radiologist at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, is the August 2018 recipient of Penn State College of Medicine’s “Exceptional Moment in Teaching” recognition.
Sep 5, 2018
Penn State has launched its first cancer-related Story Map, “The Story of Cancer in Central Pennsylvania.” The interactive geospatial map illustrates the extent of the cancer problem in the region.
Sep 4, 2018
In an upcoming project, a team of Penn State researchers will use mice as a model for creating high-resolution, 3D maps of the blood vessels in both young and aging brains.
